Oscars 2016: Did Spotlight hold up to its name?

The Oscars happened last night and Spotlight was declared as the best movie for 2015. It won two Oscars total.

Spotlight is a great movie, none can say it isn’t so, and, it’s a film about an issue that is relevant to so many people. But, for a movie that won the Best Picture award it sure didn’t shine at the Oscars, it barely sparked and died right there.

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First it only got the original screenplay Oscar at the very beginning of the ceremony, and it also closed the Oscars by winning the Best Picture award.

Everything in between was nothing about Spotlight. It was either Mad Max: Fury Road and The Revenant and, of course, the diversity issue at the Oscars.

Everybody that won an Oscar for Mad Max: Fury Road didn’t forget to mention that George Miller is a true genius and a visionary that stood behind a spectacular movie. And even now, I still don’t know who directed Spotlight.

It’s fine that the Academy is trying to spread out the Oscars and make it about more movies, but somehow it also feels weird that the best film of the year didn’t win any of the acting Oscars and not even the one for directing.

One would wonder how the Academy members think and vote.

I mean, Ok, I like how the actors act, but not as good as the actors in the other nominated movies, I like the directing but not like in the other nominations, we’ll make this the Best Picture of the year.

This also happened at the 86th Academy Awards when Gravity won 7 Oscars including the one for directing, but not Best Picture, and it clearly should have, while 12 Years a Slave won only 3 Oscars (Best Pictures, Actress in supporting role and Best adapted screenplay).

It is true that both Gravity and Mad Max: Fury Road won mostly awards in technical categories, but it’s not like the actors did a terrible job and the storytelling was horrible so they didn’t deserve the Oscars for Best Picture.

And personally I believe that Fury Road’s theme is as relevant as it will ever be, Leonardo DiCaprio spoke of it in his acceptance speech and Jenny Beavan, who won the Oscar for Costume Design for Mad Max: Fury Road said:

…it could be horribly prophetic, Mad Max, if we don’t stop polluting our atmosphere, you know, it could happen!

It just doesn’t add up! That’s all I am saying.