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LOS ANGELES — “Spotlight” took home the first award of the night at the 2016 Oscars on Sunday.
The journalism drama won the Oscar for the best original screenplay. The script by Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy tells the story of the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of sex abuse by Catholic priests.
McCarthy said they made the film for all the journalists who hold those in power accountable.
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