Best Picture: 'Spotlight' Wins at Oscars

BOSTON, MA - The 88th Academy Awards over in Hollywood had something distinctly Boston about them.

‘Spotlight’, the film about the Boston Globe investigative team helping expose sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, won Best Picture on Sunday night.

In a night that will likely be most remembered for Leonardo DiCaprio finally winning his first Oscar for Best Actor, the subtly excellent ’Spotlight’ surprised. It wasn’t the flashiest or most profitable movie of 2015, but it peeled the curtain back on the hard-nosed, thankless journalism that was a hallmark of the Globe in a time before newspapers started to take a sharp decline.

Movies like DiCaprio’s gritty ‘The Revenant’, the action-packed take on ‘Mad Max’, and the star-filled ‘The Big Short’ were expected to have a better shot at taking home the show’s final award, but it was the disarmingly realistic ‘Spotlight’, written and directed by Tom McCarty and starring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, and Liev Schreiber, that proved to resonate the most.