Moonlight is a 2016 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Barry

Jenkins, based on Tarell Alvin McCraney's unpublished semi-autobiographical play In

Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue. It stars Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle
Monáe, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome, Naomie Harris, and Mahershala Ali.
Moonlight

Theatrical release poster

Directed by Barry Jenkins

Produced by  Adele Romanski

 Dede Gardner
 Jeremy Kleiner

Screenplay by Barry Jenkins

Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney

Based on In Moonlight Black Boys Look

Blue
by Tarell Alvin McCraney[1]

Starring  Trevante Rhodes

 André Holland
 Janelle Monáe
 Ashton Sanders
 Jharrel Jerome
  Naomie Harris
 Mahershala Ali

Music by Nicholas Britell

Cinematography James Laxton

Edited by  Nat Sanders

 Joi McMillon

Production  A24
company  Plan B Entertainment
 Pastel Productions

Distributed by A24

Release date  September 2, 2016 (Telluride)

 October 21, 2016 (United
States)

Running time 111 minutes[2]

Country United States

Language English

Budget $1.5–4 million[3][4][5][6]

Box office $65.2 million[7]

The film presents three stages in the life of the main character; his youth, adolescence,
and early adult life. It explores the difficulties he faces with his sexuality and identity,
including the physical and emotional abuse he endures growing up.[8] Filmed
in Miami, Florida, beginning in 2015, Moonlight premiered at the Telluride Film
Festival on September 2, 2016. Distributed by A24, the film was released in the United
States on October 21, 2016, and grossed over $65 million worldwide.
At the 74th Golden Globe Awards Moonlight won Best Motion Picture – Drama and was
nominated in five other categories. The film subsequently won the Academy Award for
Best Picture at the 89th annual Academy Awards, along with Best Supporting Actor for Ali
and Best Adapted Screenplay for Jenkins and McCraney, from a total of eight
nominations. In 2017, The New York Times considered it the "twentieth-best film of the
21st century so far".[9]
Moonlight became the first film with an all-black cast, the first LGBTQ-related film, and
the second-lowest-grossing film domestically (behind The Hurt Locker) to win the Oscar
for Best Picture.[10][11][12] The film's editor, Joi McMillon, became the first black woman
to be nominated for an editing Oscar (alongside co-editor Nat Sanders), and Ali became
the first Muslim to win an acting Oscar

Source : Wikipedia