The ‘Spotlight’ cast and crew accept Best Picture (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
In an underdog win for a movie about an underdog profession, the newspaper drama Spotlight took best picture at a 88th Academy Awards.
Tom McCarthy’s film about the Boston Globe’s investigative reporting on sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests won over the favored frontier epic The Revenant. McCarthy’s well-crafted procedural, led by a strong ensemble cast, had lagged in the lead-up to the Oscars, losing ground to the flashier filmmaking of Alejandro Inarritu’s film.
But Spotlight — an ode to the hard-nose, methodical work of a journalism increasingly seldom practiced — took the night’s top honor despite winning only one other Oscar for McCarthy and Josh Singer’s screenplay. Such a sparsely-awarded best picture winner hasn’t happened since 1952’s The Greatest Show On Earth.
The night, however, belong to host Chris Rock, who launched immediately into the uproar over the lack of diversity in this year’s nominees, and didn’t let up. “The White People’s Choice Awards,” he called the Oscars, which were surrounded by protests (including one outside the Dolby Theatre by the Rev. Al Sharpton) and boycotts.
The complete winners list:
PICTURE
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight–WINNER
ACTOR
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant–WINNER
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Brie Larson, Room–WINNER
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies–WINNER
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl–WINNER
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
DIRECTOR
Adam McKay, The Big Short
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant–WINNER
Lenny Abrahamson, Room
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Big Short–WINNER
Brooklyn
Carol
The Martian
Room
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Bridge of Spies
Ex Machina
Inside Out
Spotlight–WINNER
Straight Outta Compton
ANIMATED FEATURE
Anomalisa
Boy & the World
Inside Out–WINNER
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Amy–WINNER
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
ORIGINAL SONG
“Earned It,” Fifty Shades of Grey
“Manta Ray,” Racing Extinction
“Simple Song #3,” Youth
“Til It Happens to You,” The Hunting Ground
“Writing’s on the Wall,” Spectre–WINNER
ORIGINAL SCORE
Bridge of Spies
Carol
The Hateful Eight–WINNER
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Embrace of the Serpent, Colombia
Mustang, France
Son of Saul, Hungary–WINNER
Theeb, Jordan
A War, Denmark
VISUAL EFFECTS
Ex Machina–WINNER
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
SOUND MIXING
Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road–WINNER
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
SOUND EDITING
Mad Max: Fury Road–WINNER
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
FILM EDITING
The Big Short
Mad Max: Fury Road–WINNER
The Revenant
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Carol
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant–WINNER
Sicario
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Mad Max: Fury Road–WINNER
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The Revenant
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Bridge of Spies
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road–WINNER
The Martian
The Revenant
COSTUME DESIGN
Carol
Cinderella
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road–WINNER
The Revenant
LIVE ACTION SHORT
Ave Maria
Day One
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
Shok
Stutterer–WINNER
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Body Team 12
Chau, Beyond the Lines
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness–WINNER
Last Day of Freedom
ANIMATED SHORT
Bear Story–WINNER
Prologue
Sanjay’s Super Team
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
World of Tomorrow
In an underdog win for a movie about an underdog profession, the newspaper drama Spotlight took best picture at a 88th Academy Awards.
Tom McCarthy’s film about the Boston Globe’s investigative reporting on sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests won over the favored frontier epic The Revenant. McCarthy’s well-crafted procedural, led by a strong ensemble cast, had lagged in the lead-up to the Oscars, losing ground to the flashier filmmaking of Alejandro Inarritu’s film.
But Spotlight — an ode to the hard-nose, methodical work of a journalism increasingly seldom practiced — took the night’s top honor despite winning only one other Oscar for McCarthy and Josh Singer’s screenplay. Such a sparsely-awarded best picture winner hasn’t happened since 1952’s The Greatest Show On Earth.
The night, however, belong to host Chris Rock, who launched immediately into the uproar over the lack of diversity in this year’s nominees, and didn’t let up. “The White People’s Choice Awards,” he called the Oscars, which were surrounded by protests (including one outside the Dolby Theatre by the Rev. Al Sharpton) and boycotts.
The complete winners list:
PICTURE
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight–WINNER
ACTOR
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant–WINNER
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Brie Larson, Room–WINNER
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies–WINNER
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl–WINNER
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
DIRECTOR
Adam McKay, The Big Short
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant–WINNER
Lenny Abrahamson, Room
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Big Short–WINNER
Brooklyn
Carol
The Martian
Room
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Bridge of Spies
Ex Machina
Inside Out
Spotlight–WINNER
Straight Outta Compton
ANIMATED FEATURE
Anomalisa
Boy & the World
Inside Out–WINNER
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Amy–WINNER
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
ORIGINAL SONG
“Earned It,” Fifty Shades of Grey
“Manta Ray,” Racing Extinction
“Simple Song #3,” Youth
“Til It Happens to You,” The Hunting Ground
“Writing’s on the Wall,” Spectre–WINNER
ORIGINAL SCORE
Bridge of Spies
Carol
The Hateful Eight–WINNER
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Embrace of the Serpent, Colombia
Mustang, France
Son of Saul, Hungary–WINNER
Theeb, Jordan
A War, Denmark
VISUAL EFFECTS
Ex Machina–WINNER
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
SOUND MIXING
Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road–WINNER
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
SOUND EDITING
Mad Max: Fury Road–WINNER
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
FILM EDITING
The Big Short
Mad Max: Fury Road–WINNER
The Revenant
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Carol
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant–WINNER
Sicario
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Mad Max: Fury Road–WINNER
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The Revenant
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Bridge of Spies
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road–WINNER
The Martian
The Revenant
COSTUME DESIGN
Carol
Cinderella
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road–WINNER
The Revenant
LIVE ACTION SHORT
Ave Maria
Day One
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
Shok
Stutterer–WINNER
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Body Team 12
Chau, Beyond the Lines
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness–WINNER
Last Day of Freedom
ANIMATED SHORT
Bear Story–WINNER
Prologue
Sanjay’s Super Team
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
World of Tomorrow
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