The Oscar for Best Film, delivered on Monday at dawn in Hollywood, was for a highly estimable work, and was a prize until something surprising given sobriety (and a certain modesty) of The Spotlight Case , when the trend has been to distinguish the film “great” and tawdry. So, and the evolution of the 88th edition of the Academy Awards in Hollywood, we were more waiting when Morgan Freeman opened the envelope and read its contents to hear The Revenant (which received three Oscars, two for director Alejandro G. Inarritu, and the actor Leonardo DiCaprio) or Mad Max:. Fury Road (six, the most award-winning film)
the night of the Oscars to the minute
Tom McCarthy movie, discreet figure since its time of “independence” (a film like the Station Agent for example), has primacy precisely the sobriety and the seriousness (not to be confused with seriousness), remember that craftsmanship of Hollywood there is not much ancient times, and its connection desire to the time in which he lives . We also had the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay ( The Wall Street Fall , a film about the 2008 financial crisis, took the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay).
Of all the nominees , the Case Spotlight was the film more like a movie of the 70s: “q emu has Pakula hunting with Tom McCarthy,” wrote at the time, to think about the relationship between a film like Spotlight and a classic “journalistic drama” as the President’s Men (1976). It lacks the depth of paranoid Alan J. Pakula film and the complexity of its construction, but it is also more than just a escorreito film, and ends up having a special meaning: is a ” midline “of American cinema, who lives in crisis in these times. As, moreover, journalism, which is at the center of the film.
“This film gave voice to the survivors, and this Oscar amplifies the voice that we hope to become a chorus that will resound to the Vatican, “he said on stage, statuette in hand, producer Michael Sugar, surrounded by the cast that represented on the big screen the journalists team Boston Globe that investigated and triggered the pedophilia scandal complaint in Catholic Church, eventually discover decades of cover-up in the highest institutions of Boston, not only of the church as to the government. “Pope Francis, it’s time to protect children and restore faith”, further added, condemning the silence “conniving” institutional in pedophilia concerns.
“We would not be here today without the heroic effort of our reporters, “responded the producer Blye Pagon Faust, arguing that the 2001 survey this group of journalists not only caused a change in the world and showed the importance of investigative journalism.
Even before the ceremony, McCarthy, actor Mark Ruffalo and co-writer Josh Singer had taken advantage of passing through Los Angeles to join a protest against sexual abuse in the church in front of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. “Next to the survivors of sexual abuse by priests,” he wrote on Twitter Ruffalo, who plays in the film the Luso-descendant journalist Mike Rezendes. – He also present at the Oscars
Amid all the controversy that surrounded the Oscars, when asked about the boycott of the ceremony, a few weeks ago, the actor had defended its importance in the awards: “I’m in a movie that is a whole other group of marginalized people who have no voice in the world and this