The 88th Academy Awards this year almost broke the Internet. Leonardo DiCaprio finally won his highly anticipated Oscar for "The Revenant," and "Mad Max: Fury Road" also brought home six awards, a fourth of the 24 total awards. But what made my night on February 28th was when the film "Spotlight" won Best Picture.

As a journalist, when I went and saw this film back in November, it instantly became one of my favorite films. It tells an important story that people should be aware of. And most importantly, it shows journalism at it's finest.

For those of you that don't know the premise of "Spotlight," according to IMDb, it's "the true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core."

Even if you aren't a journalist, someone from Boston or have no relation to this movie at all, I still think you should see it. See how journalism really works and how dedicated and determined journalists can be. One of the many reasons why I chose journalism to study in college is because I want to tell the stories that need to be told, just like the Pulitzer Prize winning "Spotlight" team of "The Boston Globe."

Nowadays, people tend to blame the media for everything. The media is blamed to portray things in a negative light, changing the way things "really" are. There is a Graham Greene quote that I think explains this situation perfectly: "Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism." The word "media" has such a negative connotation to it now. It's lost the journalistic integrity it used to have.

I think this movie proves just what the "media" can do. This was a story no one wanted to talk about, yet something needed to be said about it. The spotlight team of four journalists put everything on the line to hold the Catholic Church accountable in Catholic driven Boston, Massachusetts.

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet Michael Keaton, one of the stars of the movie who played Walter "Robby" Robinson, the Pulitzer Prize winning editor-at-large of "The Boston Globe." I planned on interviewing him and asking him some questions about the movie and journalism, but instead, he interviewed me. He asked about my school's paper and if we were all online. He was genuinely interested in what I had to say and showed a passion for journalism.

I met Keaton at a special screening for "Spotlight" in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, his hometown. Following the film, Keaton and the man he played, Robinson, sat down for a discussion about journalism and where it is heading. I think that Robinson really hit the nail on the head about the direction that journalism is headed:

“Pretty much everybody I know in my generation is not very optimistic about the future of newspapers, and maybe not so optimistic about the future of journalism. But, it’s entirely different with the young generation… They’re smart, they’re savvy, and they’re something else that you didn’t have to be when I was a young student, a young journalist, they’re entrepreneurial. They know that not only do they have to get all of the right reporting and editing skills, but they have to get multimedia skills. They know that they have to figure out how to do journalism from different platforms and they really go at it with gusto and they love the game.”

The later generations are nervous to see the fate of journalism, but I agree with Robinson. I think that the younger generations are going to transform the journalism world. The negative connotation that comes along with the word "media" will be morphed into something beyond the journalism we are seeing today.

All in all, I truly believe everyone should see the movie "Spotlight." It obviously won Best Picture for a reason, and you can see journalism at its finest and what the profession is really all about.