Clergy victims doubt “Spotlight” Oscar win will bring change

Earlier in the night, Elba brought the young actor up with him to share his best supporting male actor award saying he could not have executed his role without him, Attah. His co-star, Idris Elba, was also awarded, with best supporting male.

“I’m here at the Academy Awards, otherwise known as the white people’s choice awards”, the comic actor, one of the best-known black comedians and entertainers in the USA, said in his opening monologue. In a taped section, Rock visited the Los Angeles neighborhood of Compton – the heart of the hip-hop music industry – to ask residents if they had heard or seen the Oscar-nominated movies.

DiCaprio had already won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild trophies for the role, which transformed the heartthrob from movies like “Titanic” and “Romeo + Juliet” into a greasy-haired 1820s fur trapper who barely speaks after the bear ripped his throat. “He features in the film “Spotlight”,” which was nominated in six categories and won Best Picture. Spotlight triumphed today at the Spirit Awards, the latest of a string of honours it has picked up in Hollywood’s annual prize giving season, with the Oscars just one day away. McCarthy had introduced both the cast and the Globe journalists during the presentation of the previously announced Robert Altman cast award.

Speaking backstage, Tom said: “It’s electric, it’s really exciting”. In Saturday’s ceremony, none could top writer-director Trey Edward Shults, who won the John Cassavetes Award for first feature made for under $500,000 for his “Krisha“. He’s also up for the Oscar.

“Maybe it’s not the old classic Hollywood, but it is damn straight the Hollywood of today”, said black transgender star Mya Taylor of her L.A.-set film “Tangerine“, a streetwise buddy dramedy, as she presented a clip.

And Pakistani director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, whose “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” spoke to the impact of her film.

There’s very attractive transgender talent. “My life did a total 360”. But Heller marked her claim on Powley.

Brie Larson, star of Room, was the only white actor to win on Saturday under the big tent on the Santa Monica beach. And the documentary front-runner, the Indonesian genocide film “Look of Silence” won best documentary. She won best supporting female for Sean Baker’s micro-budget comedy, which was shot on an iPhone. Hungary scored its second best foreign language Oscar for Laszlo Nemes’ “Son of Saul”, a harrowing drama set within a concentration camp.

Spotlight also took the award home for Best Original Screenplay.

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The night’s most-awarded film, however, went to neither “Spotlight” nor “The Revenant”.

Her fellow host Kumail Nanjiani added that the Spirit Awards were “more diverse than the brochure of a liberal-arts college”.