Directors Acclaim Coen Brothers
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Joel and Ethan Coen woke up on Sunday as the favorites for the Academy Award for directing after being chosen best directors by the Directors Guild of America on Saturday night in Los Angeles for their latter-day western, âNo Country for Old Men,â Reuters reported. Since the guild began honoring directors in 1949, only six of its choices have failed to win the Oscar . âItâs nice to get the acknowledgment of critics and even audiences, but there is something about being acknowledged by people who do the same thing you do,â said Joel Coen, above right, who has joined his brother, in cowboy hat, in making films like âFargoâ and âBlood Simpleâ in the last 25 years. The last time the guild honored two men as best feature-film directors was 1961, when the winners were Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for âWest Side Story.â âNo Country for Old Menâ has been nominated for eight Academy Awards.
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Departing from the dark,  twisted sensibility of their feature "Twin Falls Idaho," in  which Mark and Michael Polish seemed to have channeled the Coen  brothers and a dash of David Lynch, the duo's latest effort,  "The Astronaut Farmer," is goofy, wholesome and, well, sweet.
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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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An Australian movie about life before Europeans arrived triumphs at the country's top awards.
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"The Departed" wins best-picture Oscar, while Martin Scorsese, Helen Mirren, and Forest Whitaker take home prizes
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Arts & entertainment: Joel and Ethan Coen tell John Patterson about Texas, torture and a 'fantastic' haircut
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Will Smith and son Jaden act very well in The Pursuit Of Happyness.
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Two small studios recovering from corporate upheaval shone brightly in the Academy Award nominations on Tuesday.
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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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Otto Preminger became one of Hollywoodâs first and most successful producer-directors. A retrospective at Film Forum celebrates his work.
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NEW YORK  - It was a tribute even the irascible Robert Altman would have loved.
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Martin Scorsese's film, "The Aviator," won the award for best drama and director Alexander Payne's "Sideways" picked up best comedy at the Golden Globes on Sunday.
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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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"United 93," a tense drama focusing on  one of the hijacked planes used in the September 11 attacks,  won the best picture prize on Monday in the New York Film  Critics Circle Awards.
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Talk about it being a small world. Bill Coen took over as men's basketball coach at Northeastern in May. The former assistant at Boston College brought two BC alums, Dana Barros and Uka Agbai , with him to be assistants, as well as Eagles student assistant Steve Scalzi to be director of basketball operations.
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Roman Polanski and the Coen brothers are among 35 movie-makers directing short films for the 60th Cannes festival.
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Bafta honours actors Tom Hanks, Helen Mirren and Jim Sheridan at a ceremony in Los Angeles.