"No Country For Old Men" positioned for Oscar
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The gritty crime drama "No Country For Old Men" became the front-runner for Oscar glory on Sunday after winning top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on a night of traditional Hollywood glamour and emotion over the sudden death of Heath Ledger.
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The Producers Guild of America unveiled nominees for its film awards on Monday picking a range of movies including comedy "Juno" and legal thriller "Michael Clayton" in a key hurdle in Hollywood's Oscar race.
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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 whether any actors would show up was in doubt because of the writers strike.
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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 Aviator," Martin Scorsese's  epic film biography of Howard Hughes, received 11 Oscar  nominations on Tuesday, beating out Clint Eastwood's boxing  saga "Million Dollar Baby" and drama "Finding Neverland," which  received seven each.
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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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Fatih Akin is riding two  horses as the Oscar race for foreign-language feature rounds  the far bend, heading to the January 22 announcement of Academy  Award nominations.
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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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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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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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The Los Angeles Film Critics  Association on Saturday named "Sideways," about two men  searching for love in California's wine country, as the year's  best film and Clint Eastwood's female boxing movie "Million  Dollar Baby" as the runner-up.
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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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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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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.  - "Sideways," a low-budget  comic tale of two men hunting wine country for true love and  the perfect pinot noir, and Martin Scorsese's epic film "The  Aviator," led the Golden Globe nominations on Monday,  sharpening the focus of Hollywood's Oscar race.
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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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"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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"Juno" and "No Country for Old Men" won top honors Saturday at the Writers Guild of America Awards.