'No Country' 'Blood' lead grim Oscar field
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BEVERLY HILLS, California  - The gritty dramas "No Country For Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" scored eight Academy Award nominations each on Tuesday, leading a somber field in an Oscar season overshadowed by the Hollywood writers' strike.
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"No Country For Old Men," Ethan and Joel Coen's 20th century take on the western, won top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, positioning the movie for glory at the Oscars next month.
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The hit musical gets a surprising Oscar snub, leaving Babel as the Best Picture frontrunner. Richard Corliss's analysis
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"No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" led with eight Academy Awards nominations each Tuesday, among them best picture and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis and Javier Bardem Â but it remained in doubt whether any stars would cross striking writers' picket lines to attend the ceremony.
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The National Society of Film Critics on Saturday named "There Will Be Blood," a gritty tale about a turn-of-the-century oil man infected with greed, the best picture of 2007.
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There&#39;s no official  starting gun to the annual Oscar race, and the finish line for  the 80th Annual Academy Awards isn&#39;t until February 24. But a  number of races already have begun -- some quietly, some not so  quietly.
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LOS ANGELES  - There just might be blood. The domestic boxoffice will feature a kind of midwinter mayhem this weekend, as strong holdover films are joined in a competitive fray by four wide-release debutants and Oscar-rejuvenated titles.
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LOS ANGELES  Â 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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Hollywood had a wide-open race on  Tuesday as Oscar nominations pitted two powerful dramas by  veterans Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood against the charm  of films about wine tasting, Peter Pan and Ray Charles.
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There just might be  blood. The domestic boxoffice will feature a kind of midwinter  mayhem this weekend, as strong holdover films are joined in a  competitive fray by four wide-release debutants and  Oscar-rejuvenated titles.
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Thriller No Country For Old Men picks up two more prizes as the awards season enters its final week.
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The movies There Will Be Blood, Atonement, No Country For Old Men, Juno and Michael Clayton - four dark, racy and offbeat movies - were nominated for the best picture in the Oscar list unveiled.
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The nominees will be announced for the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards this morning -- and it appears to be a wide-open race. So far, only the Coen brothers' "No Country for Old Men," appears to be a shoo-in. But the Globes often opt for star power, which means that "Michael Clayton," featuring George Clooney, is a likely pick.
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Dark Hollywood epic "There Will Be  Blood," already awash with prizes and nominated for eight  Oscars, takes on a light-hearted low-budget British comedy for  top honors at the Berlin Film Festival this year.
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Tales of tragedy and struggle will  vie for Oscar attention on Tuesday as an unusual awards season  overshadowed by the Hollywood writers strike heads into its  final stretch.
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The Academy Awards presentation is  still two months away but the world's top film awards ceremony  found itself embroiled on Tuesday in the worst Hollywood labor  clash in two decades.
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With the economy sinking  into recession, the war in Iraq about to enter its sixth year,  and lingering uncertainty in Hollywood following the writers  strike, it's perhaps fitting that the films competing for the  best documentary Oscar mirror the gloom.