'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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Meryl Streep and Judi Dench got nasty. Kate Winslet stripped and Penelope Cruz padded her rear. But it is Helen Mirren and her prim silver curls who looks likely to reign on Oscar night.
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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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No Country For Old Men heads the Academy Awards list with eight nods, along with drama There Will Be Blood.
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Oil epic starring Daniel Day-Lewis and the Coens' No Country For Old Men each up for eight awards
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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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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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There may be no Golden Globes show, but that didn't stop the L.A. Film Critics from handing out awards Saturday â and drawing stars.  The best picture honor went to There Will Be Blood, best actor to the film's star Daniel Day-Lewis, best actress to ...
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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 red-state warriors and blue-state battlers are at it again.   This time, the goal isn't the White House. It's the Oscar.
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The Oscars are 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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LONDON  - "There Will Be Blood," a tale of U.S. oil prospectors in a frontier town, picked up three major nominations, including film of the year, from London's Critics' Circle.
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Hollywood's month of self-congratulation is here, with a field of Oscar contenders strong enough that no clear favorite for best picture has emerged. Not that it will matter, if the writers strike bleeds into the Feb. 24 telecast.
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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 race for the Oscars is heating up, with Martin Scorsese's 'The Aviator', Clint Eastwood's 'Million Dollar Baby' and the road movie 'Sideways' dominating Hollywood's awards chatter.
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LOS ANGELES  - Academy members' eagerly  awaited choices for best picture suggest a tight Oscar race  rivaling the suspense of the 1999 derby, when "Shakespeare in  Love" enjoyed a shock triumph over "Saving Private Ryan."