On balance,the Academy gave its prizes to the accurate people, but it’s baffling that the Cate Blanchett-starring lesbian romance was totally shut outOscars 2016 winners: the full list
Related: Oscars 2016: Spotlight shocks as DiCaprio wins actor and Mad Max scorches competition Insofar as it’s possible to come by a surprise at the Academy Awards – an event in which outcome-permutations are notoriously reduced nearly to zero before anything happens at all – we had one tonight. Spotlight has won best picture: a tall-minded, or heartfelt and thoroughly absorbing film about a journalism campaign pursued at the beginning of the last decade by the Boston Globe’s investigative reporting team Spotlight. It exposed child sex abuse by the Catholic church and the way the city’s conservative and clubbable institutions conspired to cover it up and look the other way: and this included the Globe itself. Continue reading...
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