A list of what is possibly/probably the specs of the forthcoming DVD and Blu Ray releases of No Country For Old Men have emerged on the internet. Extra features include;

Working with the Coens: Reflections of Cast and Crew – Learn more about Joel and Ethan Coen from the perspective of their collaborators, cast and crew.

The Making of No Country for Old Men – Take a journey through the Coen Brothers’ process and back to their roots as storytellers with a unique voice and vision.

Diary of a Country Sheriff – Explore the relationship between the compassion of Sheriff Bell and the brutality of Anton Chigurh.

Irritatingly but probably because they’re busy finishing off Burn After Reading is is once again bereft of a Coen commentary track. Both the DVD and the Blu Ray are out on March 11th. I cannot wait!

I don’t know where it came from but here’s an annoyingly small image of the press announcement of the release. If anyone finds this image in a better, legible resolution please let me know.

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.

BBC Radio 4’s weekly Film Programme on Friday 18th January was a Coen brothers special. Don’t worry if you missed it because, thanks to their awesome, “Listen Again” feature you can catch it here for the rest of this week. I’ll try to get it up on this site permanently too.

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 brothers Coen, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin appeared on the Charlie Rose show to discuss No Country For Old Men and that king among web-surfers, finishdish, has come through for us again with a link to the pertinent clip. Thanks finishdish! Also, do a wee search for “coen” and you’ll find yet more interviews with our favourite movie making bros about O Brother, Fargo, The Man Who Wasn’t There and Intolerable Cruelty!

No Country For Old Men continues to cause discussion and debate. Read this most impressive article/post over at Jim Emerson’s Chigaco Sun Times blog. Very, very good read.

The New York Times is carrying an interesting article about the sound design of No Country For Old Men. Sound Editor Skip Lievsay, a Coen stalwart since Blood Simple is quoted along with Composor Carter Burwell and, of course, Joel and Ethan. You can read it by following the link.

Thanks to William for the link.

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.

About.com have an interview with Joel and Ethan Coen in which they discuss both No Country For Old Men and the forthcoming, Burn After Reading. They don’t give much away (as usual) but it’s always nice to hear from them. Nothing new is said about No Country but they talk about shooting in their current home town of New York for Burn. Ethan- “We live there and we had never shot and gone home at night to bed, so it was strange by virtue of that.” Joel made the amusing comment about their relationship with George Clooney- “George loves to play idiots for us.” Ethan Coen added, “The day we wrapped, just a few days ago, we called wrap on George’s last shot and he said, ‘All right, that’s it. I’ve played my last idiot.’ So we told him it was sad that he wouldn’t be working with us anymore.”

Thanks to finishdish for the head’s-up.

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!