CANADA
Hollywood Reporter
by Etan Vlessing 12/21/2015
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle has named Tom McCarthy’s fact-based journalism drama Spotlight as the best film of the year.
The fact-based journalism drama inspired by Boston Globe reporters exposing sexual abuse in the Catholic Church beat out Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s survival thriller The Revenant and George Miller’s action pic Mad Max: Fury Road in the best film category.
Spotlight was earlier named best picture by film critics in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The Canadian critics also hailed Steve Jobs’ Michael Fassbender as best actor and Room star Brie Larson as best actress. And Bridge of Spies’ Mark Rylance and Ex Machina’s Alicia Vikander won in the supporting acting categories.
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