Spotlight Movie Analysis

The film Spotlight which was released in 2015 and is based on a news article that was published by The Boston Globe in January 6, 2002 called "Church Allowed Abuse by Priest for Years." The group that did the research and published this article was called "Spotlight", which is where the name of the movie came from. Tom McCarthy who was the director of this film made Spotlight so well that it has won almost twenty-seven awards from all over the country and even from different countries all over the world and also was also nominated for thirteen different awards also from all over the world. The two main categories that this film was nominated for or has won an award for were Best Original Screenplay and Best Director, however the most important award that this film received was the Academy Award Winner for Best Picture in 2015. After watching this film, I think it absolutely deserved that award because of how good it was and how it kept the audience glued to screen to see what was happening if the audience did not read the original article back in 2002. This film in my point of view succeeded in showing a very important political message, which was it is very hard to separate the
Also, the director Tom McCarthy succeeded in showing how true this film really is by choosing actors and actresses that look just like the real people that discovered this issue, which is also probably why this film won The Academy Award Winner for Best Picture. Coming from a Coptic Orthodox back round, I was taught that we should always keep God and religion in our minds, however, growing up in a country that tries to separate church and state I see that it is better because I look at countries that base all of their laws from religion and how those countries are suffering from it and have no type of