"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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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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Oscar voters proved to be a fickle bunch on Sunday giving early awards both to winners expected, such as supporting actress Jennifer Hudson, and unexpected, like supporting actor Alan Arkin.
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The struggles of past nominees demonstrate the elusive nature of motion picture's most prestigious prize.
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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 films leading the race tended to be long on grandeur and bleak in outlook. Is it a reflection of America's mood?
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The list of Academy Award nominations reflects Hollywoodâs bleak state of mind.
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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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Deepa Mehta's Water loses out to The Lives of Others in the best foreign film category at the Oscars.
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It was a memorable but not completely triumphant Oscar night for black actors as Forest Whitaker and Jennifer Hudson won trophies but Eddie Murphy lost in an upset.
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The crime tale "No Country for Old Men," the historical epic "There Will Be Blood" and the teen-pregnancy comedy "Juno" were among the Producers Guild of America nominees Monday for best film of 2007.
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Martin Scorsese's drive for his first career Oscar keeps running   into a roadblock that looks an awful lot like Clint Eastwood.
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Some of this year's most  interesting Oscar battles revolve around what Academy Award  voters hear -- rather than see.
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Snubbed at the Oscars when "The Aviator" lost to Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby," Martin Scorsese has assembled a dream cast for his new movie "The Departed," setting the stage for a rematch with Eastwood.
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The stars showed up and the likes of Atonement, No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood took home the major awards
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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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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.