Best Picture of 2015: Spotlight

In the early 2000's a story broke on Boston the would change everything. It was reported that 70 Priests in the Boston area were reported for having sexually abused children. It's a story that has uncovered thousands of other cases across the world. This is the story about the investigative group Spotlight found the story and discovered the hidden secrets of the Catholic Church.

Open Road's Spotlight took home the top prize that night at the 88th Annual Academy Awards. The other movies nominated that night were: Paramount's The Big Short; DreamWorks Bridge of Spies; Fox Searchlight's Brooklyn; Warner Brothers' Mad Max: Fury Road; 20th Century Fox's The Martian and The Revenant; and A24's Room.

I have to say that when this film came out I was a little worried about it. Knowing how media can sometime depict religion I was a little nervous. I was nervous because New Media can take any religion and make it look like something very negative and ugly no matte what is happening. IN this situation where something ugly was happening in a religious system I was afraid they were going to try and destroy all religion in that of itself. I was very wrong. I am so glad that I was very wrong. The writers, actors, and directors did an excellent job of shining the light of the horrid truth that was happening in the system, without saying that "everyone who is religious is a horrible person". I don't even recall them opening a Bible, or any form of religious text, to help make support claims to either side of the story. The only time a book was opened was for a directory of where are the priests were living in that year. They did an excellent job of showing that certain people needed to be held responsible for their actions and the system needed to be changed. Not that everything in the system was wrong and ignorant and the people who followed that faith were stupid as well. They stuck to the facts and left an individual person's faith in God out of it. I can respect, and was true impressed, that they did that.