Two films and three editors took the top honors at last night’s American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Awards, arguably making them the front runners going into next Sunday’s Academy Awards. Kevin Tent, ACE, won the Eddie Award for best editing of a dramatic feature on the strength of his work on The Descendants. And editor Anne-Sophie Bion and director/editor Michel Hazanavicius took the feature-comedy or musical category for The Artist.
Craig Wood, ACE, won for best editing of an animated feature for Rango. And rounding out the feature category winners for the documentary Freedom Riders were editors Lewis Erskine and Aljernon Tunsil.
Also notable on the feature front, Tent and actress Reese Witherspoon presented the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award to Alexander Payne, director of The Descendants.
TV winners
Steven Rasch, ACE, earned the Eddie in the half-hour TV series category for the “Palestinian Chicken” episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Editor Skip MacDonald topped the one-hour series for commercial television on the basis of the “Face Off” episode of Breaking Bad.
Winning the Eddie for best editing of an hourlong series for non-commercial television were Jordan Goldman and David Latham for the “Pilot” episode of Homeland.
Sarah Frank, ACE, and Robert Pulcini earned the top honor in the miniseries or motion picture for TV category for Cinema Verite.
And editor Eric Lasby won the reality series category for the “Haiti” episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.
Rounding out the evening’s honorees was Eric Kench for Video Symphony, which won the student competition.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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