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<\/a><\/p>\n\nEvery year, the Muriel Awards<\/a> – an alternate and online award – chooses folks to vote on the best of the year in film. Each voter fills in an extensive ballot. Ballots are tallied. It’s always a wonderful and somewhat quirky alternative to the usual fare of regular awards seasons, where it always works out that the same damn things get nominated in the same damn categories. <\/p>\n I was really happy to participate this year. It’s also great to read the entries from other voters, many of whom are friends of mine.<\/p>\n You can scroll through all the different entries here<\/a>. <\/p>\n I wrote the entry on the Best Actress winner: the great Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven’s Elle<\/i><\/a>, one of my favorite performances of the year, period. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every year, the Muriel Awards – an alternate and online award – chooses folks to vote on the best of the year in film. Each voter fills in an extensive ballot. Ballots are tallied. It’s always a wonderful and somewhat … Continue reading