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    Film Critics Name “Inside Llewyn Davis” Best Picture

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    "Inside Llewyn Davis" (Image from CBS Films)
    NEW YORK --

    The National Society of Film Critics chose Inside Llewyn Davis as Best Picture of the Year for 2013. Inside Llewyn Davis also scored Best Director distinction for Joel and Ethan Coen, Best Cinematography for Bruno Delbonnel and Best Actor for Oscar Isaac.

    The Society, made up of many of the country’s most distinguished movie critics, held its 48th annual awards voting meeting, using a weighted ballot system, at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Center as guests of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Scrolls will be sent to the winners.

    Fifty-six members are eligible to vote, though a few disqualify themselves if they haven’t seen every film. Any film that opened in the U.S. during the year 2013 was eligible for consideration. There is no nomination process; members meet, vote (using a weighted ballot), and announce all on January 4th. There is no awards party; scrolls are sent to the winners.

    Here is a list of the winners and runners-up, with vote counts from the final round.
    BEST PICTURE
    1. Inside Llewyn Davis – 23
    2. American Hustle – 17
    3. 12 Years a Slave – 16

    BEST DIRECTOR
    1. Joel and Ethan Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis) – 25
    2. Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity) – 18
    3. Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) – 15

    BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
    1. Blue Is the Warmest Color – 27
    2. A Touch of Sin – 21
    3. The Great Beauty – 15

    BEST NON-FICTION FILM
    1. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer) – 20
    1. At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman) – 20
    3. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel) – 18

    BEST SCREENPLAY
    1. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke) – 29
    2. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen) – 26
    3. American Hustle (Eric Singer and David O. Russell) – 18

    BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
    1. Inside Llewyn Davis (Bruno Delbonnel) -28
    2. Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki) – 26
    3. Nebraska (Phedon Papamichael) – 19

    BEST ACTOR
    1. Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis) – 28
    2. Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) – 19
    3. Robert Redford (All Is Lost) – 12

    BEST ACTRESS
    1. Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine) – 57
    2. Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue Is the Warmest Color) – 36
    3. Julie Delpy (Before Midnight) – 26

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
    1. James Franco (Spring Breakers) – 24
    2. Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) – 20
    3. Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips) – 14

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
    1. Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle) – 54
    2. Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave) – 38
    3. Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine) – 18
    3. Léa Seydoux (Blue Is the Warmest Color) – 18

    EXPERIMENTAL FILM
    Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel)

    FILM HERITAGE AWARD
    • To the Museum of Modern Art, for its wide-ranging retrospective of the films of Allan Dwan.
    • “Too Much Johnson: the surviving reels from Orson Welles’s first professional film. Discovered by Cinemazero (Pordenone) and Cineteca del Friuli; funded by the National Film Preservation Foundation; and restored by the George Eastman House.
    • British Film Institute for restorations of Alfred Hitchcock’s nine silent features.
    • To the DVD American Treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive.

    BEST FILM STILL AWAITING AMERICAN DISTRIBUTION
    • Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
    • Hide Your Smiling Faces (Daniel Patrick Carbone)

    DEDICATION: The meeting was dedicated to the memory of two distinguished members of the Society who died in 2013: Roger Ebert and Stanley Kauffmann.

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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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