Coen Brothers Named Best 2007 Directors by U.S. Peers
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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.  Under the specter ...
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Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese are among the contenders to win the Director's Guild of America award.
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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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Arts & entertainment: The Coen brothers are to direct the Pulitzer-prize winning novel The Yiddish Policeman's Union
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âAtonement,â adapted from the Ian McEwan novel and starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy as suffering lovers, was named best film at the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (popularly known as the Baftas) on Sunday night in London, The Associated Press reported. Daniel Day-Lewis, above, came away with best actor honors for his performance as the oilman in âThere Will Be Blood,â and Marion Cotillard was named best actress for her portrayal of Ãdith Piaf in âLa Vie en Rose.â Joel and Ethan Coen won the award for directing for âNo Country for Old Men,â and the prize for best original screenplay went to Diablo Cody for âJuno.â.
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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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"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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Joel and Ethan Coen's "No Country  for Old Men," a tale of moral decline wrapped in a gritty crime  drama, won the top film prize from Hollywood's producers on  Saturday, making it the clear front-runner in the race to the  Oscars.
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The National Society of Film Critics has 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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Helen Mirren, Leonardo DiCaprio and Clint Eastwood were among the multiple nominees, while the drama "Babel" led Golden Globe contenders with seven nominations.
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Veteran filmmaker Martin Scorsese  took a giant step toward winning his first Oscar on Saturday  when he was named the Directors Guild of America's best  director for 2007 for his crime thriller "The Departed."
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Roman Polanski and the Coen brothers are among 35 movie-makers directing short films for the 60th Cannes festival.
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Orson Welles' classic is named as the best US movie of all time by the American Film Institute.
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Quirky comedy Sideways was named the best film of the year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The US movie also picked up four other accolades including best director for Alexander Payne and supporting actor for Thomas Haden Church.
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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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Sean Penn earned a nomination Tuesday as best filmmaker from the Directors Guild of America for his tragic road tale "Into the Wild," along with Joel and Ethan Coen for their bloody crime saga "No Country for Old Men."
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Early awards-season favorites "Into  the Wild," "Michael Clayton" and "No Country For Old Men"  scored another accolade on Sunday by making the year's top 10  list from the American Film Institute.