"No Country" tops favorites at film critics awards
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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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Finding Neverland, the biopic of Peter Pan writer JM Barrie, has been named film of the year in the first of a wave of awards in the increasingly protracted run-up to Oscar night.
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"Sideways," a quirky comedy about two friends on a road trip through California's wine country, was picked as 2004's best film by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the group announced Saturday.
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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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In the first of many critics groups picks for the best movies of the year, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) weighed in with its choices for the best films of 2004, naming Alexander Payne&#39;s &quot;Sideways&quot; the top movie.
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"There Will Be Blood" took top honors from the National Society of Film Critics on Saturday, scoring wins for best picture, best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis and best director for Paul Thomas Anderson.
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No debate: Denzel Washington's film The Great Debaters won hands down Thursday at the 39th annual NAACP Image Awards.   The period drama about a debating squad that takes on Harvard was named best film of 2007, and Washington also was honored as best...
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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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Finding Neverland, the story of Peter Pan author JM Barrie starring Johnny Depp, was named best film of the year by the National Board of Review Wednesday.
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"Juno" and "No Country for Old Men" won top honors Saturday at the Writers Guild of America 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.
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BEVERLY HILLS, California  - "No Country For Old Men," a gory meditation on moral decline, and "There Will Be Blood," a gritty drama about a pioneering California oilman, led the nominations for the 80th annual Academy Awards on Tuesday, organizers said.
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The Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men wins another major award ahead of this month's Oscars.
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Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby is named the best film of 2004 by a group of leading US film critics.
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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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TORONTO  - Toronto movie critics jumped  on the "Sideways" bandwagon Tuesday, naming the Fox Searchlight  comedy as their best film of 2004.
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A group of leading U.S. film  critics named director Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby"  as the best film of 2004, and its star, Hilary Swank, shared  best actress honors with Britain's Imelda Staunton in abortion  drama "Vera Drake."