Academy Award Winner - Best Picture & Best Original Screenplay
6 Academy Award Nominations
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay & Best Editing
"No need to bury the lede: A masterpiece." -Brian Truitt, USA Today
"Invigorating moviemaking in every way imaginable, 'Spotlight' is spot-on." -Adam Graham, Detroit News
"It's one of the best movies I've ever seen about the art and the science of newspaper reporting." -Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
SPOTLIGHT tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious "Spotlight" team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world. Directed by Academy Award-nominee Tom McCarthy, SPOTLIGHT is a tense investigative dramatic-thriller, tracing the steps to one of the biggest cover-ups in modern times.