Moonlight: Can Barry Jenkins's coming-of-age tale secure an Oscar?

The highly acclaimed film has already won several awards, including a Golden Globe. But will it scoop the big one?

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Moonlight can now add a best drama film Golden Globes to its growing bank of accolades, but can it secure an Academy Award to prevent another #OscarsSoWhite and make Barry Jenkins the first African-American to win a best director Oscar?

Loosely based on Tarell Alvin McCraney's play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, Moonlight offers an intimate study of young black man Chiron (Trevante Rhodes), who struggles to find his identity while growing up in Miami. Over the course of two decades, he learns to navigate a world framed by violence and drug-dealing, but develops a strained romance with his best friend Kevin.

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