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Oscar winner Barry Jenkins is the college football Twitter follow you didn't know you needed

Some Academy Award winners aren't that much different from the rest of college football fans.

Barry Jenkins, the screenwriter and director of "Moonlight" and "If Beale Street Could Talk," needed an outlet for his frustrations, commentary and hot takes each Saturday.

Plus, like he told ESPN, you "don't just walk off the stage at the Oscars and then start talking about the college football championship."

So Jenkins, who also adapted the Colson Whitehead novel "The Underground Railroad" into an Amazon Prime series, did what many forlorn college football fans do: he turned to Twitter.

"For most of the week, people are one version of themselves on Twitter, whether it's me as a filmmaker or people who are lawyers, doctors, hip-hop artists, whatever it is," Jenkins told ESPN.