Spotlight is a television show.
Spotlight is the BBC 's regional TV news programme for the South West of England , covering Cornwall , Devon , Isles of Scilly , southern and western Somerset , western Dorset and the Channel Islands . Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical crime drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer . The film was released on November 6 , 2015 , by Open Road Films and grossed $ 90 million worldwide . Spotlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture along with Best Original Screenplay from six nominations in total , making Spotlight the first film from Open Road Films to win in either category .