Spotlight's Hollywood Awards March Begins Sunday
Like Good Will Hunting, Spotlight has commingled Toronto and Boston for some dramatic movie magic.
The 1997 drama Good Will Hunting earned nine Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. It wound up winning two Oscars, for Supporting Actor and Original Screenplay.
This weekend, another drama set in Boston and filmed largely in Toronto will begin its own long march to what is sure to be similar Oscar success. Director Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, who co-authored Spotlight, are being honored at the Hollywood Film Awards Nov. 1 with the Hollywood Screenwriter Award.
For Goodwill, the University of Toronto stood in for Harvard and MIT; for Spotlight, an abandoned Sears warehouse in Etobicoke (adjacent to a still operational factory outlet) was commandeered to recreate the Boston Globe newsroom.
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