Both works will compete in the Best Adapted Screenplay category
A slight wrench has been thrown into the Oscar machine for Barry JenkinsMoonlightand Jeff NicholsLoving.
EW has confirmed both films screenplays are ineligible to compete in the Academys original screenplay category, and instead will both have to compete for adapted screenplay recognition.
Jenkins adaptedMoonlight,about a young black boys maturation on the streets of Miami, from Tarell Alvin McCraneys unproduced playIn Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue;NicholsLovingwas inspired by Nancy Buirskis documentaryThe Loving Story, which chronicles the life of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple imprisoned in Virginia for violating, through marriage, the states segregation laws....