UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
By Emma Jones
Entertainment reporter
Spotlight is the bookies’ favourite to take best film at this year’s Oscars, over Leonardo Di Caprio’s western The Revenant.
The movie, which has six Academy Award nominations compared to The Revenant’s 12, is all about upsetting the balance of power.
The film focuses on a piece of groundbreaking journalism that rocked the foundations of the Catholic Church in 2002, when four reporters, the investigative Spotlight team of the Boston Globe newspaper, ran an expose on how the church had covered up sexual abuse by more than 70 priests in the Boston area.
The story would lead, not only to the resignation of Boston’s Cardinal, but to the uncovering of further abuse in 102 cities in the USA, and 105 dioceses worldwide.
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