Four years ago, Barry Jenkins experienced one of the best and strangest nights of his life. The filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning film, “Moonlight,” was awarded Best Picture but the situation involved a huge mess-up on the part of the presenters of the award falsely claiming that “La La Land” won instead.
It’s still a situation that gets brought up every year when the Oscars are being awarded and will likely continue to be mentioned for decades to come just for how strange it is.
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