A Religious Spotlight…

Spotlight is a 2015 biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer. The film focuses on The Boston Globes‘s Spotlight news team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the Unites States, and its investigation into cases of widespread and systematic child sex abuse in the Boston area by numerous Catholic priests. While the plot is written for the film, it is loosely based on a series of stories by the Spotlight team that earned The Boston Globe the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The film features an ensemble cast including Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Racheal McAdams, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci, Brian d’Arcy James, Liev Schreiber, and Billy Crudup.

Spotlight was shown in the Out of Competition section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival, the Telluride Film Festival and the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. It was released on November 6, 2015, by Open Road Films and grossed $98 million worldwide. It received widespread critical praise, with critics lauding the performances of the cast, historical accuracy and screenplay; it won numerous guilds’ and critics’ association awards, and was named one of the best films of 2015 by various publications. 

Spotlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with Best Original Screenplay, from six total nominations, at the 88th Academy Awards making it the first Best Picture winner since The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) to win only one other Oscar. The film also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 22nd Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Spotlight is the Featured Blog of the Month for November for its real-life history! You can expect to read a detailed critique of the 2015 film, Spotlight. You can also read a recommendation with a character synopsis. There is also a detailed review of the 2002 Spotlight news team article that won The Boston Globe the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003. You can also watch an interview with Mark Ruffalo and reporter Michael Rezendes, who Ruffalo plays in the film, with CBS Mornings discussing Spotlight. There is also a Top Ten List to commemorate the film being a Featured Blog of the Month, and for Spotlight, the topic of the list is My Top Ten Biographical Drama Movies! And finally, as a Featured Blog of the Month film, you can watch the Official Trailer for the 2015 film and then plan on watching Spotlight tonight!

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