The Irony Behind the Oscar for Spotlight

Phil Lawler, editor of Catholic World News, has an excellent piece in First Things about the Oscar winning movie Spotlight. Separately, [via Catholic Culture] he observes the irony behind the award:

What's wrong with this picture?

◗ Spotlight has won the Oscar for Best Picture of 2015.

◗ The Oscar is presented by the Academy of Motion Picture  Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

◗ Spotlight is the story of how, in 2002, the Boston Globe  exposed sexual abuse of children in the Boston archdiocese.

◗ For that same year, 2002, the Oscar for Best Director went  to Roman Polanski.

◗ But Polanski wasn't present to receive the Oscar, because  he fled the US in 1978, to avoid sentencing after pleading  guilty to sexual abuse of a child. ...

Go here to read it in full.