Total: 6 Points
Winner: Biopic
Winner: Meta or Institutional Critique
Nominee: Chemistry
Nominee: Fanfiction
The Two Popes is a masterstroke in imagined realism. The fictitious conversation between Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI – in the days leading up to Pope Benedict XVI's monumental retirement – serves as a cutting commentary on the challenges the Catholic Church have in this digitalized global era, as well as putting voice to the doubts and issues the younger generations have with the Church's history, traditions, and uncertain future. It humanizes two figures who are too often viewed as part of the iconography as the Sistine Chapel or Michaelangelo's David – *The Two Popes* gives fresh insight into religion as an institution without denouncing or proclaiming the idea of faith itself.
