Amateur Cast: The child actors were hired from an open casting call in Miami. Enforced Method Acting: The three actors playing Chiron didn't meet during filming to avoid them copying each other's acting styles. Fake American: Naomie Harris is English. No Budget: Made for $1.5 million, it's now the lowest budget film to win Best Picture.

Trivia Moonlight Naomie Harris had to shoot her entire role in three days, in between her promotional tour of Spectre (2015), due to a visa problem (Harris is British). The scenes spanned 15 years in the character's life and were filmed out of sequence.