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By Brian Stelter
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) —The six journalists featured in “Spotlight” have spent the past three months answering questions instead of asking them. They’re ready to get back to their day jobs — but not before getting a taste of Hollywood life via the Academy Awards.
“Spotlight,” a contender for Best Picture, has already been praised as the most influential and critically acclaimed movie about journalism since “All The President’s Men” in 1976. It is a contender for the Best Picture award on Sunday night.
The movie dramatizes the 2001-2002 investigation by the Boston Globe’s Spotlight unit into sex abuse by Catholic priests. CNNMoney spoke with the journalists at the heart of the story: Marty Baron, editor: Liev Schreider Ben Bradlee Jr., projects editor: John Slattery Walter “Robby” Robinson, Spotlight team leader: Michael Keaton Sacha Pfeiffer, reporter: Rachel McAdams Mike Rezendes, reporter: Mark Ruffalo Matt Carroll, reporter: Brian d’Arcy James
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What have the journalists learned from the awards season experience?
SACHA PFEIFFER: People keep asking us, ‘Is this fun?’ I say it’s more fascinating than fun.
MATT CARROLL: It’s been totally surreal. Surreal.
BEN BRADLEE JR.: It’s been heady and quite fun in all honesty.
MIKE REZENDES: We’ve been given this opportunity to spread the word. I always pivot the conversation to, A, the survivors, and B, the importance of investigative reporting.
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