Coen brothers named best 2007 directors by U.S. peers
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The Directors Guild of America on Saturday chose Ethan and Joel Coen as best feature film directors for 2007 for their gritty crime drama "No Country for Old Men," an award known for signaling which filmmakers will win top Oscars.
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âAtonement,â adapted from the Ian McEwan novel and starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy as suffering lovers, was named best film at the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (popularly known as the Baftas) on Sunday night in London, The Associated Press reported. Daniel Day-Lewis, above, came away with best actor honors for his performance as the oilman in âThere Will Be Blood,â and Marion Cotillard was named best actress for her portrayal of Ãdith Piaf in âLa Vie en Rose.â Joel and Ethan Coen won the award for directing for âNo Country for Old Men,â and the prize for best original screenplay went to Diablo Cody for âJuno.â.
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"No Country For Old Men," Ethan and Joel Coen's 20th century take on the western, won top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, positioning the movie for glory at the Oscars next month.
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Playbill - The red hot Atlantic Theater Company (Spring Awakening, The Lieutenant of Inishmore) announced its 2007-08 line-up this week, one that will feature no fewer than five world premieres, including works by moviemaker Ethan Coen, Lucy Thurber and Jez Butterworth, as well as one New York premiere, Conor McPherson&#39;s Port Authority.
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Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men wins top prize at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) awards.
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The National Society of Film Critics named âThere Will Be Blood,â directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, as the best picture of 2007.
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Several first-time nominees, including J.J. Abrams and Walter Hill, were among the contenders named Wednesday for the Directors Guild of America's annual television awards.
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Orson Welles' classic is named as the best US movie of all time by the American Film Institute.
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The National Society of Film Critics on Saturday named There Will Be Blood, a gritty tale about a turn-of-the-century oil man infected with greed, the best picture of 2007.
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The New York Film Festival will open with Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited" and honor the Coen brothers' "No Country for Old Men" as its centerpiece in a particularly American slate for the internationally minded festival.
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Joel and Ethan Coen won the top prize from the Directors Guild of America on Saturday for "No Country for Old Men," giving them the inside track for the same honor at the Academy Awards Â assuming the Oscars go on amid the writers strike.
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Sideways, a critically acclaimed tale of two men looking for love in California&#39;s wine country, led Golden Globes nominations on Monday with seven, one more than its closest rival, The Aviator, a biography of young Howard Hughes conquering Hollywood.
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The Director's Guild of America pitted legendary filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood against each other on Thursday when it unveiled its nominees for best director.
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From Wes Anderson to Sidney Lumet, this year's New York Film Festival is dominated by top American directors spanning generations.
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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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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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Steven Spielberg, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Dolly Parton are among stars honoured for contributions to US culture.