Moonlight (2016 Barry Jenkins & co-scr)

It was the year of La La Land - but this won Best Film and Screenplay (adapted, from story by Tarell Alvin McCraney), and Mahershala Ali (True Detective, Hidden Figures, Green Book, House of Cards, Treme, The Place Beyond the Pines, since 2001) won for Best Supporting Actor. His full name is the Biblical Mahershalalhashbaz!

We wanted a Black Film Day after the George Floyd killing.

Miami. 'Little' (Alex Hibbert) is being bullied - charismatic drug dealer Mahershala Ali and his girlfriend Janelle Monae (Hidden Figures) look out for him, but it turns out one of his clients is Little's mum, Naomie Harris, who's a nightmare.

'Chiron' (Ashton Sanders) is now a teenager, and he's still being bullied, though experiences a sexual encounter with his friend Kevin (Jharrel Jerome). Ali's gone (dead or in prison, we guess) and the mum is still a mess.

Then in 'Black' Chiron has essentially become the Ali dealer figure, having moved to Atlanta, where his mum is at least finally clean, but he seeks out his old beach buddy, now played by The Eddy's André Holland. It's in this episode we finally hear some rap, after refreshingly the soundtrack has been classical (Nicholas Britell).

We thought it was great.

Photographed by James Laxton. Half Nelson's Anna Boden gets a 'Thanks'.