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I didn't hear much about this "Moonlight" picture. But after Googling it, and seeing the winners on stage, I can guess what happened. Remember what happened last year?

After 3 1/2 hours of Trump bashing, the Oscars had their biggest awards flub disaster in history and announced La La Land as the winner.

Then, it was announced it was a mistake, and the director and cast of Moonlight took the stage.

The flub was probably just a mistake, although they still cannot explain how it happened. Was Moonlight rigged to "win" at the last minute or very recently?

Also, the historical revisionist "Hidden Figures" was also nominated for numerous awards.

This movie, inaccurately, states that NASA was saved by black mathematical geniuses who made math calculations regarding orbits.

While there was a woman, who was 1/4 black, who worked at NASA, the entire story is complete bunk and massive exaggeration. I believe the movie was conceived, written, and produced as yet another gift to the BLM and "Boycott Oscars So White!" crowd.

The real Katherine Johnson even stated she never faced any discrimination at NASA. It was all manufactured for the script.

La La Land had been charged as "racist" by many, including Kareem Abdul Jabar.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kareem-abdul-jabbar-how-la-la-land-misleads-race-romance-jazz-975786

What a disaster. But Hollywood deserved to fall on its face last night.

Can you say “over-compensation”? I thought I was watching the BET awards.

Hey, Lew, shut up and play basketball!

This movie, inaccurately, states that NASA was saved by black mathematical geniuses who made math calculations regarding orbits.

The blacks were the first to reach the moon. Fact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xJzAYYrX8

“While there was a woman, who was 1/4 black, who worked at NASA, the entire story is complete bunk and massive exaggeration.”

I grew up in Hampton, VA in the 1950s and 1960s, the setting for the movie “Hidden Figures.” I have seen the movie and read the book on which the movie was based. As is typical, the movie takes some liberties with the facts. Most notably, it portrays events that transpired over a 15 year period, from 1947 to 1963, and compresses them into a couple of years in the early 1960s. However, your critique of the movie contains several errors of its own.

1. Neither the movie nor the book claimed that NASA was “saved” by the women who made the calculations for launch trajectories and orbits. That women were employed to make such calculations and, subsequently, some of them learned computer programming to keep their jobs is beyond dispute. The practice of employing women to make orbital calculations goes back at least 120 years, when the Harvard College Observatory employed women to make calculations of planetary orbits.

2. Katherine Johnson wasn’t the only African-American woman employed at NASA at the time. The other two African-American women portrayed in the movie, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughn, were also employed there during the same time. You make the point that Katherine Johnson was “only” 1/4 black. That was more than enough to relegate her to the “colored” bathrooms at the Langley Research Center at NASA, which existed until 1958. And since you are interested in skin tone, Mary Jackson’s skin was quite dark.

3. I interpreted the movie as bringing to the fore the role of women, as much as blacks, in the space program. There is a book, “Rocket Girls,” that came out about the same time as “Hidden Figures,” and recounts the similar role that women played at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA in the 1940s and 1950s.

I didn't see Hidden Figures but I heard it was good. Last night when they brought out this woman who was the real person in the movie, maybe upwards of 90 in a wheelchair, I was a bit stunned that she had ever experienced any racism toward blacks. She was as white as me. Oh, and now you say she had ONE white grandparent. Jeez.

Look. You can't have it both ways.

If that woman was black, and they made a whole movie celebrating her blackness, then Dwight Eisenhower, who also had one black grandparent, deserves to be the first black President and not Obama. Period.

Did you actually see "Hidden Figures" - the movie about black women mathematicians that helped out NASA during the 1960s Space Race?

I don't see many movies but I was kind of dragged to this last week during my Florida beach vacation when it poured rain for most of the day. There was not much else to do so my wife said I either take her to a movie or take her shopping - so easy choice for me. Hidden Figures seemed to be best of the lot that was playing that day - the preview had me at "NASA".

While it was obvious some artistic license was taken and that those women mathematicians did not literally save the space program, I was pleasantly surprised by the movie. The black women in the movie exhibited conservative family values, putting achievement based on merit ahead of entitlement. One of the women (widowed) married a black black man who immediately took responsibility for fathering her already existing children. Another woman fought for the right to go to a white high school, not to grab attention and headlines, but to take advanced math courses that were unavailable in her black school.

I won't put any more spoilers in but this is the kind of movie that conservatives ought to support. Maybe it's not 100% factually correct but what movie is? One of my favorite NASA movies is "The Right Stuff" and it was laughable how they portrayed LBJ and some of the astronauts. But all in all "The Right Stuff" was a worthy flick that made you proud to be an American (the book by Tom Wolfe is even better).

This movie had the same effect on me. Much better than that other black movie given the best picture award that features blacks dealing drugs. Way to go perpetuating racist stereotypes Hollywood.

Hidden Figures is much better and worth a few dollars to see on a rainy day.

I didn't hear much about this "Moonlight" picture. But after Googling it, and seeing the winners on stage, I can guess what happened. Remember what happened last year?

I didn't watch last night, but in looking at the results it seems that this year was all about making up for their "racist" actions last year. It was all about being politically correct this time around.