Spotlight
Break the story. Break the silence.
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
- Director
- Tom McCarthy
- Worldwide
- $99M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
30 billed performers
Story overview
What It's About
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The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
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The record
Awards
4 wins · 7 nominations
Academy Awards
2 wins · 6 nominations
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Director
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Film Editing
Screen Actors Guild Awards
No wins yet · 1 nomination
- WinnerScreen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Film
1 win
- WinnerDallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Film
National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
1 win
- WinnerNational Board of Review: Top Ten Films
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Spotlight returned 4.9× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $20M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $99M
- Release date
- Nov 6, 2015
- Runtime
- 2h 9m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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