Ridley Scott scores Best Director honor for "The Martian"
By Jake Coyle, Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --
Best Film
Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Director
Ridley Scott
The Martian
Best Actor
Matt Damon
The Martian
Best Actress
Brie Larson
Room
Best Supporting Actor
Sylvester Stallone
Creed
Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh
The Hateful Eight
Best Foreign Language Film
Son of Saul
Best Animated Feature
Inside Out
Best Documentary
Amy
Best Original Screenplay
Quentin Tarantino
The Hateful Eight
Best Adapted Screenplay
Drew Goddard
The Martian
Best Directorial Debut
Jonas Carpignano
Mediterranea
Best Ensemble
The Big Short
Breakthrough Performance
Abraham Attah
Beasts of No Nation
Breakthrough Performance
Jacob Tremblay
Room
William K. Everson Award for Film History
Cecilia De Mille Presley
Spotlight Award
For Outstanding Collaborative Vision
Sicario
NBR Freedom of Expression (in alphabetical order)
Beasts of No Nation, Mustang
Top Films (in alphabetical order)
Bridge of Spies, Creed, The Hateful Eight, Inside Out, The Martian, Room, Sicario, Spotlight, Straight Outta Compton
Top Ten Independent Films (in alphabetical order)
‘71, 45 Years, Cop Car, Ex Machina, Grandma, It Follows, James White, Mississippi Grind, Welcome to Me, While We’re Young
Top 5 Foreign Language Films (in alphabetical order)
Goodnight Mommy, Mediterranea, Phoenix, The Second Mother, The Tribe
Top 5 Documentaries (in alphabetical order)
Best of Enemies, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, The Diplomat, Listen to Me Marlon, The Look of Silence
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads โ essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More