The best film won: 5 ways 'Spotlight' beat the Oscars odds

"Spotlight," Tom McCarthy's drama about the Boston Globe's 2001-2002 investigation of child sexual abuse within the Catholic church, became an Oscar favorite the moment it made its European and North American debuts in Venice, Telluride and Toronto last year. The film, starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams and Liev Schreiber as the reporters and editors involved with the Pulitzer Prize-winning series, possessed all of the markers of a shoo-in for best picture: an all-star cast, a...