Tag: Oscar best picture Spotlight

• Tuesday, March 1st 2016 - 05:21 UTC

  “Spotlight”, true story of investigative reporting on sexual abuse by Catholic priests takes best film Oscar

  

  In an underdog win for a movie about an underdog profession, the newspaper drama “Spotlight” took the Oscar for the best picture at the 88th Academy Awards. Tom McCarthy’s film about The Boston Globe’s investigative reporting on sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests won over the favored frontier epic “The Revenant.”