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'Spotlight' wins Oscar for Best Picture
February 29, 2016 - 12:20am
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Oscars 2016 live: Spotlight, Iñárritu, DiCaprio and Larson take top honours
Chris Rock skewered Hollywood’s race problem. Mad Max: Fury Road monstered the technical prizes. Sam Smith and Ennio Morricone made sweet music. There were supporting gongs for Mark Rylance and Alicia Vikander. Alejandro González Iñárritu won best director, but Spotlight took best film
http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/live/2016/feb/28/oscars-2016-li...
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/29/how-did-spotlight-beat-the-r...
https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2016/02/28/spotlight-actor-m...
Spotlight won the SAG and Critics Choice awards, while The Revenant won the Golden Globes. While I didn't see The Revenant, the betting sites shouldn't have been surprised that a picture like Spotlight, based on fact, journalistic and on a contemporary topic, would win.
http://deadline.com/2016/02/spotlight-win-vatican-official-catholic-chur...
Alain Gravel, now host of the Radio-Canada Montréal early morning show and veteran investigative reporter at Enquête, really enjoyed Spotlight, so I may go see that, little as I like Hollywood movies. I thought it would have little to tell us here; our Church is as powerful and opaque as its counterpart in Boston, but who knows. It is always good to see films about work, although they are always romanticised.
No interest in survivalist stuff like the Revenant, or much else on offing.
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(film)#Reactions_from_the_Catholic_Church]Wikipedia entry on the film[/url].
So the thread title is pretty misleading, the Catholic church was happy for people to see the film, and virtually endorsed it.
Personally, I'm more bothered that the Oscars usually only like white people and won't honour fi;ms that show the US government's foreign policy in a bad light.
"Why Spotlight is a Terrible Film" at Counterpunch.org by an author who was there in 2002
"moral panics are hysterical...they jetison reason for emotion.."
Yes Spotlight is primarily about the Boston area of the USA, but since when did this become just a USA problem?
And since when do people believe comments coming from the RC Church?
It is international, in other words worldwide, in scope.
Did people not see the names of the different countries involved including Canada where Antigonish, NS was one location.
And it appears the people in charge in some countries at least, the cardinals, have been relocaed as well.
Pell’s Rome identity missing in the Australian abuse debate
http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2016/02/24/pells-rome-identity-is-missing-...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/top-cardinal-admits-scandalous...
Should the RC Church be allowed to continue it's existence? Of course it will, but should it? I have serious reservations about that. No wonder they had to pick someone like Francis as the Pope.
Researchers quoted in Spotlight I believe suggested 50% of priests were not celebate and 6% of priests or 87 priests in the Boston Archdiocese were sexual abusers, which I presume would translate to 6% of priests worldwide. How many priests would that be?
That means there are approximately 24,000 sexual abusers masquerading as priests in the RC Church.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_sex_abuse_cases_by_country
http://www.vocativ.com/news/235015/by-the-numbers-the-catholic-churchs-s...
Using data from John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s 2011 report on sex abuse in the church, BishopAccountability.org estimates that there have been at least 17,200 victims in the US. The site warns that this is a conservative estimate.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/10/pope-francis-us-visit-cat...
It is obvious that my guestimate of 24,000 priests who sexually abuse has seriously underestimated the numbers.
Data on the Crisis
The Human Toll
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AtAGlance/data.htm#accused_priests
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/29/vatican-s-no-3-faces-se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sexual_abuse_cases_in_Canada
Yeah, well, fair enough. ALso, I like the phrase "because, well, King Canute" a lot.
To put it mildly, yes.
So, anyone watch that train wreck of a show last night? Or have any thoughts on the travesty that are the whiter-than-white Oscars?
For goodness sakes, obviously the massive cover up is continuing.
It is so big the RC Church would have to close up shop if they seriously wanted to address the issue of sex abuse within their organization.
I think most people have already figured that out by now.
Let's all suspend such belief for a moment so that you can provide us with any links suggesting that the Catholic Church has been suppressing this movie. And then we can decide whether they're against it or not.
You evidently believe that they don't want me to see it. Give me something I can click on.
The RC Church still has thousands of abusers working for them, and some of the people involved are holding, next to the pope, the highest positions in the vatican.
The Church seeing as it has not properly dealt with the issue, obviously does not want people to see their dirty work winning the main Oscar award of the year.
Can you share some of the "obvious" links where any of them "obviously" said that"?
This author was there in 2002,
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/29/oscar-hangover-special-why-spotli...
"The “Spotlight” team got almost everything wrong. The movie doesn’t even try to be right."
Come off it. Of course they would not come out and say that as that would just send more people to watch Spotlight.
Are you suggesting there was no sexual abuse by priests?
Read some of that but studies show less than 2% of sex abuse accusations are false. The RC Church presently has approximately 25,000 priests that sexually abuse others.
The victims will never get proper redress.
Lked the movie because it exposed the systemic hiding of sexual abuse in the church which I am sure is still going on today.
It is unfortunate for the victims that priests could circumvent the law for decades or more, by being transferred to another parish sometimes out of the country.
Banks too big to fail and churches too big to get caught, eh!
Knowing what we know now about the RC Church what do you think of parents who are bringing their kids up roman catholic?
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