'Inside Llewyn Davis' is US critics' choice for best film

Award winners revealed in Cannes

'Inside Llewyn Davis' screens in Cannes

Joel and Ethan Coen are a filmmaking team known for producing, writing and directing movies from their 1984 debut "Blood Simple," "Fargo" and "True Grit." to their Oscar winning best picture, "No Country For Old Men."

In other awards, the critics chose the lesbian-theme drama "Blue Is the Warmest Color" as best foreign-language film, and declared a tie in the nonfiction, or documentary category.

"The Act of Killing," about septuagenarian Indonesian mass murderer Anwar Congo, in which Indonesian gangsters reenact killings they participated in during the mid-1960s anti-Communist purge, shared the prize with "At Berkeley," Frederick Wiseman's look at the northern California university.

Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke shared the best screenplay prize for "Before Midnight," the third film in the romantic series starring Delpy and Hawke.

"Leviathan" took the experimental film prize. Special film heritage honors went to the Museum of Modern Art, the British Film Institute, the DVD "American Treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive," and "Too Much Johnson," the surviving reels of Orson Welles' debut film which were discovered by Cinemazero (Pordenone) and Cineteca del Friuli, funded by the National Film Preservation Foundation and restored by the George Eastman House.