Producers back Coens' No Country
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The Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men wins another major award ahead of this month's Oscars.
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Joel and Ethan Coen woke up on Sunday as the favorites for the Academy Award for directing after being chosen best directors by the Directors Guild of America on Saturday night in Los Angeles for their latter-day western, âNo Country for Old Men,â Reuters reported. Since the guild began honoring directors in 1949, only six of its choices have failed to win the Oscar . âItâs nice to get the acknowledgment of critics and even audiences, but there is something about being acknowledged by people who do the same thing you do,â said Joel Coen, above right, who has joined his brother, in cowboy hat, in making films like âFargoâ and âBlood Simpleâ in the last 25 years. The last time the guild honored two men as best feature-film directors was 1961, when the winners were Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for âWest Side Story.â âNo Country for Old Menâ has been nominated for eight Academy Awards.
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Which movie will win the Cannes Film Festival's top prize Sunday? Critical favorites include a small, socially conscious Romanian film about an illegal abortion and the Coen brothers' tale of a ruthless killer in Texas.
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Cate Blanchett won the supporting actress Golden Globe on Sunday for the Bob Dylan tale "I'm Not There" during an awards show truncated from glitzy banquet to dry news conference because of the Hollywood writers strike.
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John Peterson is the star, and chief spokesman, for a documentary that highlights the success of community-supported agriculture
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BEVERLY HILLS, California  - "No Country For Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood," two violent portraits of moral decline, led the Oscar race with eight nominations each
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"No Country for Old Men," a gritty thriller about a killer who cuts a path of destruction across Texas, was named best film at the Critics Choice Awards on Monday, leaving contenders such as "Into the Wild" and "Juno" by the wayside.
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The announcements made in Los Angeles Tuesday morning saw No Country for Old Men getting eight but the big surprise was the  same number of nominations for the much acclaimed There Will Be Blood which was expected to pocket three or four noms. Both films were nominated in the best picture categories.
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No Country For Old Men heads the Academy Awards list with eight nods, along with drama There Will Be Blood.
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The lunchtime crowd at Uno's on Huntington Avenue is raising the noise level a notch, but it doesn't bother Billy Coen. He's used to it. A city guy, talking about a city game at a city school, Northeastern, which made Coen its men's basketball coach last April 11.
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New movies from  Sean Penn and Julian Schnabel earned high praise at the  Telluride Film Festival during the Labor Day holiday weekend,  while the absence of a &quot;wow&quot; movie and lengthy lines dampened  some spirits.
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US thriller No Country For Old Men is named movie of the year by the London Film Critics' Circle.
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No Country For Old Men and Juno win the main prizes at the Writers Guild of America awards.
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No Country For Old Men is nominated for eight Academy Awards, with British film Atonement up for seven.
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Finding Neverland, the biopic of Peter Pan writer JM Barrie, has been named film of the year in the first of a wave of awards in the increasingly protracted run-up to Oscar night.
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"No Country for Old Men," a gritty drama about a killer who cuts a path of destruction across Texas, was named best film at the Critics Choice Awards on Monday, leaving contenders such as "Into the Wild" and "Juno" by the wayside.
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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.