March 13, 2026: Oscar Spotlights

The culmination of Award season is happening this Sunday, so to get warmed up for all of the Academy’s rewards, we’ll talk with someone who has been portrayed in an Oscar winner. Walter Robinson was leading the Spotlight Team of investigative reporters at the Boston Globe in 2002 when they broke the news of decades of sexual abuse among the clergy in the Metro Boston area. We speak with him about the movie, the state of journalism, and more. Plus we'll let you know how you can ask your own questions at a special screening of the Best Picture winner for 2016, Spotlight, at Garden Cinemas in Greenfield next week on March 18th. The Academy Awards invite quite a bit of speculation from the film and lay community alike, with folx everywhere making their own predictions about the winners. We happen to know a certain ringer who’s been mostly on the money for the last few years with their picks: Enzo Belmonte. We speak with him and NEPM News Executive Editor Elizabeth Roman about our own takes on Sunday’s event. And an Oscar party is a great place to have a glass of a late winter white wine as the sun slowly comes back to us. So we head to State Street Fruit Store, Deli, Wine and Spirits to pit Italy against Portugal for this week’s Thunderdome.