Barry Jenkins Recalls How Best Picture Snafu Was Even More Dramatic in Miami

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It will be a while before New York Times podcast Still Processing has a better-matched guest. Because this week, culture writers Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham welcomed Barry Jenkins, who is still processing the worst Best Picture presentation of all time.

We’re now exactly two months past that briefest of Feb. 26 moments when La La Land towered in Hollywood as the best of 2016. Coincidentally, the Damien Chazelle musical is out today on DVD and Blu-ray.

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