No Country for Old Men
(2007)
Rusty: Academy Award for Best Picture (Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem)
Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)Award nominations: Academy Award for Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
Academy Award for Best Sound Editing
Academy Award for Best Sound MixingAward details: (details at IMDb)
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No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western thriller directed, written, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name. The film stars Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin and tells the story of an ordinary man to whom chance delivers a fortune that is not his, and the ensuing cat-and-mouse drama as the paths of three men intertwine in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. Themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance re-emerge that the Coen brothers have previously explored in Blood Simple and Fargo. The film premiered in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on May 19. Among its four 2007 Academy Awards were for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, allowing the Coen brothers to join five previous directors honored three times for a single film. In addition, the film won three British Academy Film Awards including Best Director, and two Golden Globes. The American Film Institute listed it as an AFI Movie of the Year, and the National Board of Review selected the film as the best of 2007.