CALIFORNIA
New York Times
The Carpetbagger
By CARA BUCKLEY FEB. 29, 2016
Everyone loves an underdog story, especially a surprise one, and ripples of delight over “Spotlight’s” win for best picture spread out from the Dolby Theater on Sunday night into the after-party beyond.
At the Governors Ball, the first stop for many on the post-Oscars party circuit, there was a discernible hop in many people’s steps — even in the ones who had not won. A relaxed, beaming Bryan Cranston (“Trumbo”) lolled outside the party’s entrance, chatting with Louis C.K., looking wholly unperturbed about losing the best actor Oscar to Leonardo DiCaprio for “The Revenant.” (Mr. Cranston had long acknowledged he wasn’t the favorite to win.) …
Next it was off to the Palihouse in West Hollywood, where the party for “Spotlight” was hitting a delighted fever pitch, so thrilled was everyone there for the film’s victory. The cast was not in attendance, but the writer and director Tom McCarthy was, and he was absolutely over the moon.
Laura Kim, of Participant Media, which produced the film, had just taken Phil Saviano, a survivor of clergy abuse whose story is depicted in “Spotlight,” to the emergency room. Before the Oscars, Mr. Saviano had suffered a blood clot that required he be hospitalized, but, against medical advice, had checked himself out to attend the ceremony, and afterward checked himself back in (reportedly he was faring well).
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