"Spotlight" Catholic Church drama wins big at Gotham AwardsDecember 1, 2015 - 13:34 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - "Spotlight" won big at the 25th annual Gotham Independent Film Awards, which was held on Sunday, November 30. The movie about Boston Globe's groundbreaking investigation that uncovered sexual abuse within the Catholic Church won three awards, followed closely by "Tangerine", which took home two gongs, AceShowbiz reports. "Spotlight" defeated "Carol", "The Diary of a Teenage Girl", "Heaven Knows What" and "Tangerine" in Best Feature category. The movie also won Best Screenplay for scribes Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer. A special Gotham Jury Award was given to cast members Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci, Brian d'Arcy James, Liev Schreiber and Billy Crudup. Transgender movie "Tangerine" nabbed the Audience Award and a Breakthrough Actor honor for actress Mya Taylor. In the category, Taylor competed with co-star Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and three other actresses including Rory Culkin ("Gabriel"), Arielle Holmes ("Heaven Knows What") and Lola Kirke ("Mistress America"). In TV categories, USA Network's critically acclaimed "Mr. Robot" won Breakthrough Series - Long Form, while Breakthrough Series - Short Form went to British comedic short series "Shugs & Fats". Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |