"Spotlight" Takes Home the Actor

Spotlight cast members celebrate! Back row, from left, Diana Rice, Jean Ricker, Gabriel Ricker, Dale Appel, Stephen Fordham, Michele Proude, Richard O’Rourke, William Levin, Elaine Victoria Grey, Al Cialella, and Robert J. La Trémouille. Front row, from left, A.G. Wilde and Frank Cacciola. Photo by Don Warnock.

The New England Local kicked off 2016 with another successful SAG Awards viewing party on Jan. 30. More than 100 members partied at the Carpenters Union Hall and enjoyed an endless hot and cold buffet, claimed raffle prizes, took photos on the red carpet and cheered the diverse winners. The celebration culminated when Spotlight took the actor for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The film chronicles the five-month investigation by The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team into the cover-up of systematic sexual abuse of children within the Catholic Church. The film, which was shot around Boston, including the South End, Dorchester and Roxbury, featured over 300 local background actors and 25 actors in principal roles.

This item was originally featured in the May 2016 local newsletter.