Spotlight shines brightest at NY's Gotham Awards

RTE (Ireland)
December 1, 2015

http://www.rte.ie/ten/news/2015/1201/750368-gotham-awards/

L-R Spotlight stars Billy Crudup, Brian d'Arcy James, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo and John Slattery at the Gotham Awards

Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo in Spotlight

Best Film.

Spotlight also took the award for Best Screenplay (Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer), with its cast, which includes Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Stanley Tucci and Mark Ruffalo, sharing the previously announced Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble.

The film tells the true story of US newspaper The Boston Globe's Spotlight team and their work in exposing the global cover-up of clerical sexual abuse by the Catholic Church. Directed by Tom McCarthy (The Visitor, The Station Agent), Spotlight will be released in Irish cinemas on January 29.