Q 01/05

Who directed Spotlight?

A) Bennett Miller

B) Steven Spielberg

C) David Fincher

D) Tom McCarthy

Answer · why

D) Tom McCarthy

Tom McCarthy once played a notoriously unscrupulous reporter, Scott Templeton in The Wire, and a few staff greeted him with shouts of 'Templeton!' whe...

Q 02/05

Which newspaper's investigative team is the film about?

A) The Washington Post

B) The Boston Herald

C) The Boston Globe

D) The New York Times

Answer · why

C) The Boston Globe

Spotlight is the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative unit in the US.

Q 03/05

Who plays reporter Michael Rezendes in Spotlight?

A) Mark Ruffalo

B) Michael Keaton

C) Liev Schreiber

D) John Slattery

Answer · why

A) Mark Ruffalo

Mark Ruffalo shadowed the real Rezendes at his newsroom desk and, the reporter recalls, grabbed the mouse to scrub through video from the investigatio...

Q 04/05

Who plays Walter 'Robby' Robinson, head of the Spotlight team?

A) Michael Keaton

B) Mark Ruffalo

C) Stanley Tucci

D) Brian d'Arcy James

Answer · why

A) Michael Keaton

Michael Keaton spent weeks watching old tapes of Robinson, then studied him across a dinner table; Robinson says the actor caught every mannerism and ...

Q 05/05

Who plays reporter Sacha Pfeiffer in Spotlight?

A) Michelle Williams

B) Amy Adams

C) Emily Blunt

D) Rachel McAdams

Answer · why

D) Rachel McAdams

Rachel McAdams peppered the real Pfeiffer with texts during the shoot: heels or tennis shoes at the office, what colour bag she carried, even which si...