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PEOPLE & ARTSMonday 29 February 2016
‘Spotlight’ tops a richly diverse Spirit Awards Known for ‘Father
JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP)
— The 31st Independent
Film Spirit Awards provided
a clear rebuke to the less
diverse Oscars, bestow-
ing awards on “Beasts of
No Nation” co-stars Idris
Michael Sugar, center, and the cast and crew of “Spotlight” accept the award for best feature at
the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016, in Santa Monica, Calif.
Elba and Abraham Attah
and “Tangerine” star Mya
Taylor, making her the first
transgender actress to win
at the annual awards.
The newsroom drama
“Spotlight” was the big win-
ner at the Spirits on Satur-
day, the day before it’s to
compete for best picture at
the Academy Awards. Tom
McCarthy’s film about the
Boston Globe investigation
into sex abuse by Catholic
priests won a leading four
awards, including best pic-
ture, best director for Mc-
Carthy, best screenplay
and the Robert Altman
award for ensemble.
But this year’s Spirit Awards, best picture nominee up
‘Fifty Shades’ dominates Razzies with 5 awards died 18 years to the day
DERRIK J. LANG
AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Fifty
Shades of Grey” came out
on top — or perhaps the
bottom — at this year’s
Razzies.
The awkward adaptation
of author EL James’ erotic
novel nabbed five prizes at
Saturday’s Golden Rasp-
berry Awards, including
tying it up with superhero
an annual dressed-down
oceanside indie antidote
to the Oscars, was most
remarkable for its more di-
verse nominees and win-
ners. Neither Elba, Attah
nor Taylor was even nomi-
nated for Oscars. Each
drew hearty applause.
“There is very beautiful
transgender talent,” said
Taylor, who won best sup-
porting actress for playing
a Los Angeles sex worker
in the iPhone-shot “Tan-
gerine.” ‘’You better get
out there and put it in your
movie.” In recent years, the
Spirits have overlapped
considerably with the Os-
cars, including the last two
top winners: “Birdman” and
“12 Years a Slave.” But this
year, the Spirits — which
honor films made for $20
million or less — widely de-
viated from their stuffier
crosstown counterparts.
“Spotlight” was the only
flop “Fantastic Four” as the
year’s worst film.
“Fifty Shades of Grey” also
“won” for worst screenplay,
worst actor for Jamie Dor-
nan and worst actress for
Dakota Johnson, with the
pair pinning down the worst
screen combo award.
In addition to tying for worst “Jupiter Ascending.” Red-
film of the year, “Fantastic
Four” was also lambasted
as worst remake, rip-off
for the Spirits’ top award; No Nation,” beamed be-
the bigger budget Oscar fore a standing ovation.
favorites it’s vying with, Kate McKinnon (“Saturday
“The Revenant” and “The Night Live”) and come-
Big Short,” didn’t qualify. dian Kumail Nanjiani host-
And while the Oscars have ed the ceremony, which
been beset by criticism for was broadcast live on IFC.
a second straight year of In their opening remarks,
all-white acting nominees, Nanjiani introduced them-
selves as a Pakistani Ameri-
can and a gay woman,
“or to Hollywood, a straight
woman and her IT guy.”
(Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) The foreign language fa-
vorite from Hungary, Laszlo
the Spirits boasted five non- Nemes’ Holocaust drama
white nominees out of 20 — “Son of Saul” took best in-
and three of them won. ternational film. And the
“I’m so much prouder of documentary front-runner,
being a producer than my the Indonesian genocide
performance,” Elba said film “Look of Silence” won
backstage about the Netf- best documentary.
lix release. “As a producer Without the competition of
you face a lot of doors be- “The Revenant” or “The Big
ing closed in your face and Short,” the wins for “Spot-
in this case we did have a light” likely don’t suggest
hard time making it but we any better fortunes for the
got there in the end.” film at the Oscars. But Mc-
Elba brought Attah up on Carthy took the opportuni-
stage to share in his award ty to celebrate the movie’s
for best supporting actor, distinction as an indepen-
but Attah later won one of dent film, released by indie
all his own. The young Gha- distributor Open Road.
naian, who hadn’t acted “Quite honestly, we need
before director Cary Fuku- studios like this who are go- Father Dougal McGuire, in
naga cast him in “Beasts of ing to step up when the
other studios won’t,” said
McCarthy, with several
of the reporters the films is out of prison in an uncredit-
based on in the crowd. He
also shared in best screen-
play with his cowriter, Josh
Singer. The irreverent and
breezy Spirit Awards, held in drama series “Glenroe,”
a tent on the Santa Monica
beach, stood apart from
the Oscars in other ways,
too. Director Marielle Hell-
er, who won best first fea-
ture for the coming-of-age
tale “Diary of a Teenage
Girl,” marked her territory
in a speech that noted the
onrush of interested from
bigger productions for the
movie’s breakout star, Bel
Powley. q
or sequel and earned the Stephen Hawking in “The
worst director prize for Josh Theory of Everything.”
Trank. Sylvester Stallone, who
Other dishonors included is nominated in the sup-
Kaley Cuoco as worst sup- porting actor category at
porting actress for “Alvin & the Oscars for reprising his
The Chipmunks: Road Chip” role as Rocky Balboa in
and Eddie Redmayne as “Creed,” was bestowed
worst supporting actor for with the Razzies’ redeemer
award, which lauds past
mayne won the best actor Razzies recipients for recent as a privilege to have Kelly
trophy at last year’s Acad- work that’s revived their
emy Awards for portraying careers.q
Ted,’ actor Frank
Kelly is dead at 77
DANICA KIRKA
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Irish ac-
tor Frank Kelly, best known
for playing a foul-mouthed
priest with a fondness for
the catchphrase “Feck!
Drink! Girls!” in the series
“Father Ted,” died Sunday.
He was 77 and had been
suffering from Parkinson’s
disease.
Despite being a gracious,
posh-accented veteran
of the Dublin stage, Kelly’s
irreverent portrayal of Fa-
ther Jack Hackett lived on
long past the show’s run
from 1995-98. The public
embraced the chance to
watch the gentle parody
of the Roman Catholic
Church and his irreverent
character.
“Frank was an all-around
talent, an institution in
Irish entertainment, a very
determined professional.
And he’ll be greatly missed
by all who knew him,”
said Ardal O’Hanlon, who
played a younger priest,
the show. Kelly got his big
break with a role escorting
Michael Caine’s character
ed role in “The Italian Job,”
in 1969. He later appeared
in “Hall’s Pictorial Weekly,”
a 1970s political satire, the
and the soap opera, “Em-
merdale.” But he is best
remembered for this role
as Father Jack, who lives
on the fictional Craggy
Island together with two
other luckless priests and
their housekeeper. Father
Jack makes no attempt to
hide his disdain at his fellow
priests, and the lampoon-
ing of all things Catholic
helped the show win mul-
tiple BAFTA awards. Kelly
after the character who
played Father Ted Crilly,
Dermot Morgan, died
shortly after the end of film-
ing of the third and final
season.
Twitter lit up with tributes.
Irish President Michael Hig-
gins was among those of-
fering condolences to Kel-
ly’s family and describing it
as a friend. q