"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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The Oscar race of 2007 has begun with a pair of grim films capturing attention over more widely-hyped movies, indicating to awards watchers that the race for Hollywood's most prestigious awards is wide open.
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"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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When a big awards show goes starless, the result is something more dire than bad TV, writes Richard Corliss
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It's awards season in Hollywood, with all red carpets leading to the Oscars. But winning that prestigious award can sometimes lead to nothing more than bad roles and even oblivion.
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Maybe it was the crippling writers'  strike or the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Or was it  something in the expensive bottled water in Beverly Hills where  Oscar organizers are based.
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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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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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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.
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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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Some of this year's most interesting Oscar battles revolve around what Academy Award voters hear -- rather than see.
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Hollywood had a wide-open horse  race on Tuesday as Oscar nominations pitted two hard-hitting  dramas by veteran directors Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood  against the charm of films about wine drinking, Peter Pan and  Ray Charles.
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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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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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Though much blood is shed, Milos Forman's new movie is surprisingly bloodless.
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Viewers may think some of the nominees for best picture at next week's Academy Awards are dark, but they pale in comparison with the movies competing for the coveted Oscar for best documentary.
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"No Country for Old Men" solidified its Academy Awards prospects Sunday by taking overall cast honors alongside Javier Bardem's supporting-actor prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards