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Spotlight Wins the 2016 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
By Jodi Guglielmi
People
January 30, 2016
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The Screen Actors Guild has crowned the night's big winner: Spotlight.
Demi Moore presented the award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture on Saturday night, prompting Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, Liev Schreiber, Brian d'Arcy James and Billy Crudup to head to the stage.
The film tells the true story of the Boston Globe's investigation into the Catholic priest sex abuse scandal.
"I have to thank our producers, Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, who just took every single opportunity to tell the truth," said Ruffalo, 48. "They didn't take any cheap way, it was always the truth and honored these people. These victims who are dead, and the survivors who are still alive, of one of the most horrific things that our culture has allowed to happen." "This movie allows them to be seen in a world that has been blind to them," he added. "And so it is such an honor to be standing in front of you on behalf of them. And this amazing cast."
• Check out PEOPLE's full 2016 SAG Awards coverage and complete winners list!
On behalf of the cast, Keaton, 64, concluded the acceptance speech: "For me personally, and I think I speak for everyone, honestly this is not only for the survivors of this horrific situation, but for me personally, I'm only speaking for me, this is really for the disenfranchised everywhere, this is for every Flint, Michigan, in the world. This is for the powerless. This is for the powerful who take advantage of the powerless. That's why I'm proud to be part of this and thank you very much, it comes down to two things: There's fair and there's unfair, and I'm always going to vote for the fair, I'm always going to vote for the good guys. Thanks for this, this means a lot."
Spotlight was up against Beasts of No Nation, The Big Short, Straight Outta Compton and Trumbo.
The 22nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards aired live on TNT and TBS.
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