Spotlight

Resource Information

The work Spotlight represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Spotlight

Statement of responsibility

directed by Tom McCarthy ; written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy ; produced by Michael Sugar, Steve Golin ; produced by Nicole Rocklin, Blye Pagon Faust ; executive producers, Jeff Skoll, Jonathan King, Pierre Omidyar ; executive producers, Michael Bederman, Bard Dorros, Josh Singer ; executive producers, Tom Ortenberg, Peter Lawson, Xavier Marchand ; Open Road Films presents in association with Participant Media and First Look Media ; an Anonymous Content production ; a Rocklin/Faust production

Contributor

• Tucci, Stanley
• Anonymous Content (Firm)
• First Look Media (Firm)
• Open Road Films
• Participant Media
• Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Bederman, Michael
• Cariou, Len
• Carter, Stephen, (Stephen H.)
• Chuck, Wendy
• Countryman, Michael
• Creighton, Michael Cyril
• Crudup, Billy, 1968-
• Dorros, Bard
• Faust, Blye Pagon
• Golin, Steve
• Guilfoyle, Paul
• Huff, Neal
• James, Brian D'Arcy
• Keaton, Michael, 1951-
• King, Jonathan, (Film producer)
• Lawson, Peter, (Film producer)
• Marchand, Xavier, (Film producer)
• McAdams, Rachel, 1978-
• McArdle, Tom, (Film editor)
• McCarthy, Tom, 1966-
• Omidyar, Pierre, 1967-
• Ortenberg, Tom, 1960-
• Rocklin, Nicole, 1979-
• Ruffalo, Mark
• Schreiber, Liev
• Sheridan, Jamey
• Shore, Howard
• Singer, Josh
• Skoll, Jeff
• Slattery, John, 1962-
• Sugar, Michael
• Takayanagi, Masanobu

Actor

• Countryman, Michael
• Slattery, John, 1962-
• Tucci, Stanley
• Cariou, Len
• Keaton, Michael, 1951-
• McAdams, Rachel, 1978-
• Ruffalo, Mark
• James, Brian D'Arcy
• Schreiber, Liev
• Huff, Neal
• Sheridan, Jamey
• Guilfoyle, Paul
• Crudup, Billy, 1968-
• Creighton, Michael Cyril

Costume designer

• Chuck, Wendy

Director of photography

• Takayanagi, Masanobu

Editor of moving image work

• McArdle, Tom, (Film editor)

Film director

• McCarthy, Tom, 1966-

Film producer

• Skoll, Jeff
• Golin, Steve
• Lawson, Peter, (Film producer)
• Faust, Blye Pagon
• Marchand, Xavier, (Film producer)
• Bederman, Michael
• Singer, Josh
• Dorros, Bard
• Ortenberg, Tom, 1960-
• Omidyar, Pierre, 1967-
• King, Jonathan, (Film producer)
• Sugar, Michael
• Rocklin, Nicole, 1979-

Presenter

• First Look Media (Firm)
• Participant Media
• Open Road Films

Production company

• Anonymous Content (Firm)

Production designer

• Carter, Stephen, (Stephen H.)

Publisher

• Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)

Screenwriter

• Singer, Josh
• McCarthy, Tom, 1966-

Subject

• Iglesia Cat?licaqxClero -- Conducta sexual -- Teatro
• Investigative reporting -- Drama
• Journalism films
• Massachusetts -- Boston
• Materiales bilingües -- Teatro
• Pel?culas cinematogr?ficas hist?ricas
• Películas cinematográficas populares
• Reporters and reporting -- Fiction
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Boston (Mass.) -- Drama
• Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction
• Boston globe
• Boston globe -- Drama
• Catholic Church
• Catholic Church -- Clergy | Sexual behavior -- Drama
• Catholic Church -- Clergy | Sexual behavior -- Fiction
• Child sexual abuse -- Fiction
• Biographical films
• Child sexual abuse -- Investigation
• Child sexual abuse -- Investigation -- Drama
• Clergy -- Sexual behavior
• Closed caption video recordings
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Globe Newspaper Co
• Globe Newspaper Co. -- Drama
• Historical films
• Investigative reporting
• Boston globe -- Fiction

Genre

• Drama
• Teatro
• Fiction
• Biographical films
• Journalism films
• Historical films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

The riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious 'Spotlight' team of reporters delve into allegations of sexual abuse of children by clergy in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment

Awards note

Academy Awards 2016 for Best Motion Picture and Best Writing Original Screenplay; BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay; Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture; AFI Award for Movie of the Year

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

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Credits note

Director of photography, Masanobu Takayanagi ; production designer, Stephen Carter ; editor, Tom McArdle ; costume designer, Wendy Chuck ; music by Howard Shore

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; for some language including sexual references

Language note

In English, with optional subtitles in French or Spanish; optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing; closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1997.2

LC item number

.S668 2016

PerformerNote

Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Brian D'Arcy James, Stanley Tucci, Billy Crudup, Paul Guilfoyle, Jamey Sheridan, Len Cariou, Neal Huff, Michael Cyril Creighton, Michael Countryman

Runtime

129

Technique

live action