The winner of the Oscar Award 2017, for Best Adapted Screenplay is the American film director and writer Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin for “Moonlight’. Barry Jenkins is well known for his films Medicine for Melancholy (2008) and Moonlight (2016). The film Moonlight is the best one and it received eight Oscar nominations at the 89th Academy Awards and Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin won Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar. His breakthrough film was Medicine for Melancholy which was released in the year 2008. Now his upcoming projects include a series based on the novel, Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad and its screenplay based on the life of the Claressa Shields.
Bio
Barry Jenkins is the American film director and writer. He was born on 19th November 1979 in Liberty City, Miami, Florida, United States of America. He is 37 years old and his star sign is Scorpio. He has three older siblings and his father died when he was only 12 years old. He attended Miami Northwestern Senior High School. Later he studied film at the Florida State University in Tallahassee. He started his career in the year 2003.
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- Occupation: Film Director and Writer
- Age: 37 year’s old
- Date of Birth: 19 November 1979
- Place of Birth: Liberty City, Miami, Florida, United States of America
- Star: Scorpio
- Gender: Male
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- Ethnicity: White
- Nationality: American
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- Siblings: He has three older siblings
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