Oscars 2017: Moonlight’s Mahershala Ali Wins Best Supporting Actor

Mahershala Ali has won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his part as Juan in Moonlight. Moonlight was nominated for 8 Oscars in total; this marks the film’s first. At the Screen Actors’ Guild Awards earlier this year, Ali also took home the award for Best Supporting Actor. 

Revisit “Human After All: On Janelle Monáe in Hidden Figures and Moonlight,” “Director Barry Jenkins on the Music that Made Moonlight,” and “No More Classic Men: On Moonlight’s Bizarre Jidenna Moment” over on the Pitch.

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Mahershala Ali thanks his wife: “She was in her third trimester during awards season. We just had our daughter 4 days ago.” #Oscars pic.twitter.com/WpRi6RYlGr

— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) February 27, 2017

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