At the end of the New York Film Critics Circle awards ceremony, No Country for Old Men producer Scott Rudin “came up with the Coen brothers at the end of the night and dedicated [their] best film win to Sydney Pollack,” reports N.Y. Times columnist David Carr. Rudin’s key remark: “If you grow up in New York, this is the award you hope you win and these are the two guys you hope you win it with.”
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