Coen brothers could make Oscar history
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You know it's a weird year at the Academy Awards when the Coen brothers are not only front-runners, but potential history-makers.
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Normally a small cousin to the Golden Globes and Academy Awards, Sunday's Screen Actors Guild Awards could end up being the biggest party of Hollywood's film-honors season this time.
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Joel and Ethan Coen won the top prize from the Directors Guild of America on Saturday for "No Country for Old Men," giving them the inside track for the same honor at the Academy Awards Â assuming the Oscars go on amid the writers strike.
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LOS ANGELES  - Oscar front-runner "No Country For Old Men" picked up two awards during the weekend as the countdown to the Academy Awards entered its final week.
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The Directors Guild of America on Saturday chose Ethan and Joel Coen as best feature film directors for 2007 for their gritty crime drama "No Country for Old Men," an award known for signaling which filmmakers will win top Oscars.
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Hollywood's Oscar race for best film appears to be wide open heading into its final month with several award watchers on Tuesday giving comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" a slight edge over "The Departed" and "Babel."
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Hollywood's month of self-congratulation is here, with a field of Oscar contenders strong enough that no clear favorite for best picture has emerged. Not that it will matter, if the writers strike bleeds into the Feb. 24 telecast.
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This year's Academy Awards has something it hasn't had in ages: A neck-and-neck race for Best Picture.
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The Golden Globe nominations, seen as an early steer for the Oscars, are due to be announced in Hollywood.
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Joel and Ethan Coen won the top prize from the Directors Guild of America on Saturday for No Country for Old Men, giving them the inside track for the same honor at the Academy Awards Â assuming the Oscars go on amid the writers strike.
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Optimism was in the air Monday among Academy Awards nominees Â both on their films' prospects and the chances that Hollywood's crippling writers strike will end in time for the Oscars show to go on as planned.
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Films exploring an aviation visionary's flight into fame, a female boxer's long day's journey into night and two buddies bumbling through wine and romance are expected to dominate the Oscar nominations on Tuesday.
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Martin Scorsese may finally be positioned for Academy Awards glory, but his Howard Hughes epic "The Aviator" will have to duke it out with Clint Eastwood's boxing drama.
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Like the great Macedonion conqueror in the upcoming Oliver Stone   flick Alexander, Warner Bros. is plotting a new strategy in the   battle for Oscar glory.
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Labor strife has been topping the bill in Hollywood of late, yet you wouldn't have known it from the weekend's awards shows: The town's elite seemed more interested in celebrating, and "No Country for Old Men" emerged as the movie to beat at the Academy Awards.
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The Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men appears in a list of top 10 movies compiled by the  American Film Institute.
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Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese are among the contenders to win the Director's Guild of America award.