Monday, March 12, 2018

Oscar Speech Denied

Barry Jenkins recently appeared at SXSW and took the opportunity to give the speech he would have given at the 2017 Academy Awards ceremony for winning Best Picture for Moonlight had the accountants done their jobs properly.  The speech appears below.

Tarell [McCraney] and I are Chiron. We are that boy. And when you watch Moonlight, you don’t assume a boy who grew up how and where we did would grow up and make a piece of art that wins an Academy Award — certainly don’t think he would grow up to win Best Picture. I’ve said that a lot and what I’ve had to admit is that I placed those limitations on myself. I denied myself that dream — not you, not anyone else — me. And so, to anyone watching this who sees themselves in us, let this be a symbol, a reflection that leads you to love yourself. Because doing so may be the difference between dreaming at all and somehow, through the Academy’s grace, realizing dreams you never allowed yourself to have.
h/t deadline.com

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