Every Best Picture Oscar Winner Ranked Worst To Best

Moonlight might just be the most tender and empathetic Best Picture winner of all time, telling a rare but beautiful story of a gay Black man during three key periods in his life, from conflicted child to troubled adult.

Written and directed by Barry Jenkins, the raw emotion of Chiron's journey is one with such poetic ferocity that it's already aged into a modern classic, armed with a vital message that's destined to feel more empowering and universal as the years pass by.

Avoiding cliché, gorgeously filmed, and wonderfully life-affirming in its humanism, Moonlight came out right when everyone needed it, shedding light on a rarely-told story with heartbreaking beauty. The Academy has been wrong an awful lot in the last decade, but not with Jenkins' masterpiece.