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Spotlight tonight took the big prize at the 88th Academy Awards with a Best Picture victory. Nominated for a total of six Oscars tonight it also was the big winner Saturday at the Independent Spirit Awards. The Open Road-distributed and Tom McCarthy-directed drama about the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning…

"The story of Spotlight has just begun," said Michael Sugar, one of the four Spotlight producers to win best picture tonight. The win came as a surprise to the group, and what truly made it special was the actual Boston Globe Spotlight team and the sexual abuse survivors were in the audience of the Dolby Theater. "I…

Best Picture Nominee Spotlight has picked up the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for screenwriters Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, becoming the first of tonight’s Best Picture nominees to clock a win. It bested stiff competition in the category, including Ex Machina, Straight Outta Compton, Inside Out, and fellow Best…

Spotlight won Best Picture tonight at the 88th Annual Academy Awards, handed out at the Dolby Theatre inHollywood. Mad Max: Fury Road came into the night with the second-most nominations — 10 — and won six trophies, twice as many Oscars as its closest rival. The Revenant, which had a leading 12 noms, and…

The earnest journalism procedural Spotlight won the Best Picture Oscar tonight to cap one of the most entertaining Academy Awards broadcasts in recent memory. The night saw The Revenant‘s Leonardo DiCaprio win his first Oscar, Warner Bros’ Mad Max: Fury Road take the most trophies with six after romping through the…

Editors Note: This story was originally published February 23. The campaign for the 88th annual Academy Awards that started in earnest at the three fall film festivals in early September is over, and the answers will soon be in those envelopes to be opened on the Dolby Theatre stage. So now my final predictions of…

Best Picture contenders grabbed stragglers this weekend, widening their audiences considerably. with and wider audiences this weekend. Open Road's Independent Spirit Awards winner Spotlight as well as Fox Searchlight's Brooklyn and A24's Room added theaters to max out their gross potential in the lead-up to…

Spotlight, the indie film that has been in the awards discussion all season and is up for six Oscars tomorrow, warmed up by taking home five awards at the 31st annual Spirit Awards today on the beach in Santa Monica. The Open Road/Participant Films drama about the Boston Globe‘s investigation into the Boston Catholic…

Open Road’s Oscar hopeful Spotlight swept the proceedings at the 31st annual Film Independent Spirit Awards this afternoon in Santa Monica. The drama about the Boston Globe investigation of the Boston Catholic Church’s child abuse scandal won four awards — Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best…

It’s all over but the opening of those envelopes, and Gold Derby’s Tom O’Neil and I are back for one last smackdown in which we make predictions in all 24 categories. If you can’t win your Oscar pool with these, then forget it.  Actually we both agree there are many categories that are slam dunks (Leo and Brie…

Best Picture Oscar nominee Spotlight is the recipient of the Los Angeles Press Club’s inaugural Veritas Award, given to a film based on or inspired by real events and people. The award, judged and voted on by LAPC membership, will be presented February 25 at the Steve Allen Theatre in L.A., with the Boston Globe‘s…

EXCLUSIVE: Open Road just got this testimonial for Spotlight from Carl Bernstein, who with Bob Woodward led the Washington Post investigation that traced the Watergate burglary all the way to the Nixon White House and was immortalized in All The President’s Men. They’d been trying to get him to see the movie, and…