Spotlight Producer to Pope Francis: It’s Time to Protect the Children

Oscars 2016: Spotlight Producer Addresses Pope Francis in Best Picture Speech (Entertainment Weekly)

Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight, about the Boston Globe investigation into sex abuse in the Catholic Church, won Best Picture at the 2016 Academy Awards.

“We would not be here today without the heroic efforts of our reporters,” producer Blye Pagon Faust said in her acceptance speech. “Not only to they effect global change, but they absolutely show us the necessity for investigative journalism.”

And producer Michael Sugar said he hoped the film’s message would reach the pope. “This film gave a voice to survivors, and this Oscar amplifies that voice, which we hope will become a choir that will resonate all the way to the Vatican,” producer Michael Sugar said in his acceptance speech. “Pope Francis, it’s time to protect the children and restore the faith.”