"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 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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LOS ANGELES  Â 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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The hit musical gets a surprising Oscar snub, leaving Babel as the Best Picture frontrunner. Richard Corliss's analysis
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"No Country for Old Men," a gritty drama 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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Film fans by the hundreds waited under cold, dreary skies for glimpses of stars about to cross the red carpet for the 79th annual Oscars on Sunday, carefully watched by a phalanx of policemen.
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Hollywood is in a bleak mood this year, and the Oscar nominees announced Tuesday reflected that state of mind.
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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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In the 80 years since the first Oscars were handed out, it has taken a war or a flood or an assassination to drastically alter or delay the celebration surrounding the film industry's highest honors.
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Hollywood had a wide-open race on  Tuesday as Oscar nominations pitted two powerful dramas by  veterans Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood against the charm  of films about wine tasting, Peter Pan and Ray Charles.
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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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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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The success of Martin Scorsese's  "The Departed" at the Oscars caused some Hollywood  hand-wringing on Monday over whether months of costly Oscar  campaigning truly pays off.
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Without Oscar hopes, a lot of movies would never get made.
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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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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.