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Newspaper drama Spotlight has upset all the glitzy Hollywood predictions with an underdog best picture Oscar.
The film was the surprise winner at the 88th Academy Awards, where remarks on lack of diversity dominated the proceedings.
Tom McCarthy’s film about the Boston Globe’s investigative reporting on sexual abuse by Catholic priests won over the favoured frontier epic The Revenant.
Spotlight, led by a strong ensemble cast, had lagged in the lead-up to the Oscars, losing ground to the flashier film-making of Alejandro Inarritu’s film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, who won the best actor statuette.
But Spotlight, an ode to the hard-nosed methodical work of a form of journalism now practised seldomly, took the night’s top honour, despite winning only one other Oscar for McCarthy and Josh Singer’s screenplay.
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