Oscars 2017: 8 Things The Academy Screwed Up

1. Moonlight Winning Best Picture

What Happened

Moonlight won Best Picture.

What Should Have Happened

There is no denying that Moonlight is a very good film. Nor is there any suggestion that isn't one of the most important films on a hugely progressive Oscar slate of movies and documentaries. But it wasn't the BEST film.

For almost every facet of its greatness, La La Land is better. It might be a more apparently vacuous film, because all it deals with is love and dreams, but it is a more towering technical achievement (in art design, cinematography, sound, editing), and as the Academy themselves acknowledged it was the better directed film.

There will now be an unfortunate unspoken accusation now that Moonlight won because of something else, which is a shame given its own greatness. And while it is a great thing that a film dealing with such difficult subject matter (which actually never allows itself to preach or to be overwhelmed by the politics others have inevitably attached to it) won Best Picture, on merit, it didn't deserve to.

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