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    Amy Adams, IMAX’s Richard Gelfond and Greg Foster Honored at American Cinematheque Awards

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    Amy Adams
    BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. --

    The American Cinematheque presented the 31st American Cinematheque Award to five-time Oscar nominee (Junebug, Doubt, The Fighter, The Master, American Hustle) Amy Adams at the Cinematheque’s annual benefit gala on Friday night (11/10) at The Beverly Hilton. 

    Adams was the unanimous choice of the Cinematheque Board of Directors selection committee. Since 1986, the organization has annually honored an extraordinary artist in the film industry, who is fully engaged in his or her work and is committed to making a significant contribution to the art of the motion picture. For many years, the event was known as the Moving Picture Ball. Funds raised benefit the year-round programming of the non-profit cultural organization, the American Cinematheque (founded in 1981 by Gary Essert and Gary Abrahams). 

    Presenting the honor to Adams–after some of her most memorable movie scenes played before the gala audience–were a succession of notables including Tom Hanks, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Kristen Stewart, Natalie Portman, Justin Timberlake, Chris Messina, and Denis Villeneuve who directed Adams in Arrival.

    Previous American Cinematheque Award honorees include: Eddie Murphy (1986), Bette Midler (1987), Robin Williams (1988), Steven Spielberg (1989), Ron Howard (1990), Martin Scorsese (1991), Sean Connery (1992), Michael Douglas (1993), Rob Reiner (1994), Mel Gibson (1995), Tom Cruise (1996), John Travolta (1997), Arnold Schwarzenegger (1998), Jodie Foster (1999), Bruce Willis (2000), Nicolas Cage (2001), Denzel Washington (2002), Nicole Kidman (2003), Steve Martin (2004), Al Pacino (2005), George Clooney (2006), Julia Roberts (2007), Samuel L. Jackson (2008), Matt Damon (2010), Robert Downey Jr. (2011), Ben Stiller (2012), Jerry Bruckheimer (2013), Matthew McConaughey (2014), Reese Witherspoon (2015), and Ridley Scott (2016). 

    Meanwhile, another notable, director Christopher Nolan, earlier in the evening at the Cinematheque festivities presented the 3rd Annual Sid Grauman Award to Richard Gelfond and Greg Foster on behalf of IMAX for their outstanding contribution to theatrical exhibition. 

    Cinematheque chairman Rick Nicita said of Gelfond and Foster, “Their leadership of IMAX has resulted in a breathtaking expansion of not only box office grosses around the world but in a quantum leap forward for the excitement and enjoyment of the movie-going audience. There is no better way to see a movie than on the big screen and IMAX gives us the biggest screens of all.”

    Nolan deployed IMAX cameras for his latest lauded feature, Dunkirk, which is very much in this season’s Oscar conversation. Nolan was actually one of the first directors to use IMAX cameras on a feature to great effect, yielding The Dark Knight.

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    A Closer Look At Proposed Measures Designed To Curb Google’s Search Monopoly

    Thursday, November 21, 2024

    U.S. regulators are proposing aggressive measures to restore competition to the online search market after a federal judge ruled Google maintained an illegal monopoly for the last decade.

    The sweeping set of recommendations filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice could radically alter Google's business, including possibly spinning off the Chrome web browser and syndicating its search data to competitors. Even if the courts adopt the blueprint, Google isn't likely to make any significant changes until 2026 at the earliest, because of the legal system's slow-moving wheels.

    Here's what it all means:

    What is the Justice Department's goal?
    Federal prosecutors are cracking down on Google in a case originally filed during near the end of then-President Donald Trump's first term. Officials say the main goal of these proposals is to get Google to stop leveraging its dominant search engine to illegally squelch competition and stifle innovation.

    "The playing field is not level because of Google's conduct, and Google's quality reflects the ill-gotten gains of an advantage illegally acquired," the Justice Department asserted in its recommendations. "The remedy must close this gap and deprive Google of these advantages."

    Not surprisingly, Google sees things much differently. The Justice Department's "wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision," Kent Walker, Google's chief legal officer, asserted in a blog post. "It would break a range of Google products — even beyond search — that people love and find helpful in their everyday lives."

    It's still possible that the Justice Department could ease off on its attempts to break up Google, especially if President-elect Donald Trump... Read More

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