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Amusingly editor, Roderick Jaynes, was Oscar nominated for his fine work on No Country For Old Men. As regular readers will know he doesn’t actually exist, he is a figment of the Coen brothers minds. They have used his name on all of their films but we’ve never SEEN him before. Till this year’s ceremony when they used this picture to represent him. Anyone know who this dapper gent actually is?
Wins for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem) and Best Adapted Screenplay!!! A truly wonderful and deserved end to awards season.
In one night Joel and Ethan walked away with more Oscars than the Academy have deemed worthy to lavish on their presented, Martin Scorsese, which is just not right is it?
I am so happy that this movie has garnered so many awards and particularly the ones last night, here’s hoping the win gives the Coens the clout to be able to raise the money to make To The White Sea which I would really, really love to see made one day.
I’m gutted for Roger Deakins who has been doing incredible work for years and despite many nominations throughout his career for Best Cinematography, indeed he was up for an award TWICE this year, he still cannot bag himself a golden baldie!!!
Here are some pictures from the show;
Joel and Ethan having been presented their awards by the legendary Martin Scorsese 1 and 2
Joel and Ethan dual wielding awards
Javier Bardem doing his red carpet thing
Bardem with fellow acting gong winners Daniel Day Lewis, Tilda Swinton and Marion Cotillard 1, 2, and 3
No Country For Old Men keeps on racking up awards! At last night’s BAFTAs Joel and Ethan won Best Director, Javier Bardem won Best Supporting Actor and, quite rightly, Roger Deakins won for Best Cinematorgraphy. 3 wins out of 9 is alright I guess but it was beaten the Best Picture by Atonement again! GAH!
Over on the BAFTA site you can watch a 25 minute interview with our favourite siblings chatting to Mark Kemode about their life in movies. Apparenlty it took place on 13th December! I wish I’d known!!! It’s not particulary illuminating but it’s always nice to hear them chat and giggle isn’t it? You can also see a few pics from the BAFTA in the multimedia section, strangely none have Ethan in them so he must have been unable to attend.
Hurrah! Joel and Ethan Coen have won the Director’s Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for No Country For Old Men. Apparenlty this award is a very accurate barometer for the winner of the Oscar for same.
You can download a podcast of their acceptance speech and a Q&A with the press here.
Thanks to JD for the link to the podcast.
Today the Academy announced the nominations for this year’s Oscars. No Country For Old Men and Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood topped the table for most noms with eight apiece. The Coen brothers have been nominated in both the Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay categories while Javier Bardem has picked up yet another Best Supporting Actor nod and the movie is also up for the big one- Film of the Year. Other noms are Achievement in Cinematography (Roger Deakins), Achievement in Film Editing (Coen alias Roderick Jaynes), Achievement in Sound Mixing and Achievement in Sound Editing. The 80th Academy Awards takes place on 25th February. No word on whether or not the WGA strike will affect it.
No Country For Old Men has been nominated for 9 BATFAs! And this one being a British award ceremony, will be unaffected by the WGA strike and will actually happen. The film’s nominations were; Best Film, Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins), Editing (amusingly Roderick Jaynes), Best Director (Joel and Ethan Coen), Adapted Screenplay (again Joel and Ethan), two for Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones), Supporting Actress (Kelly MacDonald) and Sound (Peter Kurland/Skip Lievsay/Craig Berkey/Greg Orloff). Good luck to all.
The ceremony was cancelled due to the WGA strike but the awards were still dished out. That’s right the Golden Globe winners have been announced and the fact that you’re reading this here can mean only one thing- No Country For Old Men has won something! Not just some thing but TWO things. Javier Bardem took home the Globe for Best Supporting Actor while Joel and Ethan took home the award not for directing but for writing- Best Screenplay. Surprisingly Best Film (Drama) went to Atonement, Best Film (Comedy/Musical) to Tim Burton’s Sweeny Todd and Best Director to Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Congrats to all and let’s hope for further recognition at the Oscars.
The Directors Guild of America has announced it list of nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film and, I’m delighted to say, No Country For Old Men is one of them. This year marks the 60th DGA awards and it’s a good one to win as the directors up for the award have been nominated by their peers not some stuffy board. The Coens are up against Paul Thomas Anderson with There Will Be Blood, Sean Penn with Into The Wild, Tony Gilroy with Michael Clayton and Julian Schnabel with The Diving Bell And The Butterfly. I’m afraid to say I am yet to see any of No Country’s competitors as yet. The winner will be announced on January 26th.
Good luck to the Coens then!
In addition to nice little haul above, No Country is also up for 4 Golden Globes; Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem), Best Director (Joel and Ethan Coen) and Best Screenplay (Joel and Ethan). The awards ceremony is on January 13th.
The awards for No Country For Old Men have started coming in already. There’s a heck of a lot, here’s the list so far;
National Board of Film Review- Best Picture of the Year, Best Adapted Screenplay (Joel and Ethan Coen), Best Ensemble Cast and Career Achievement in Cinematograpgy (Roger Deakins)
New York Film Critics Circle- Best Picture, Best Screenplay (Joel and Ethan), Best Director (Joel and Ethan), Best Ensemble, Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem)
Boston Film Critics- Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem)
Washington DC Film Critics- Best Picture, Best Director (Joel and Ethan), Best Ensemble, Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem)
San Francisco Film Critics Circle- Best Director (Joel and Ethan)
New York Film Critics Online- Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem)
Gotham Awards- Gotham Award Tribute (Javier Bardem)
Chicago Film Critics- Best Picture, Best Director (Joel and Ethan), Best Adapted Screenplay (Joel and Ethan) , Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem)