"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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Deepa Mehta's Water loses out to The Lives of Others in the best foreign film category at the Oscars.
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It looked like a glaring snub when Jonny Greenwood's music for "There Will Be Blood" wasn't among the five Academy Award nominees for best original score.
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Film fans finally will soon learn who's competing for this season's Academy Awards. Now all we need to know is whether any nominees will turn up for the big show amid a writers strike that has thrown the awards season into turmoil.
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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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Uncertainty rules the Academy Awards as "No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" led Tuesday with eight nominations each, two other best-picture contenders trailed with seven, and a writers strike left the fate of the show itself up in the air.
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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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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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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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No Country For Old Men is nominated for eight Academy Awards, with British film Atonement up for seven.
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The films leading the race tended to be long on grandeur and bleak in outlook. Is it a reflection of America's mood?
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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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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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Thriller No Country For Old Men picks up two more prizes as the awards season enters its final week.
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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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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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With no J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy to lord over Hollywood's prom night, an eccentric mix of real-life characters may step in to fill the void at the Academy Awards.