"Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"" as Robert Ford Amy Ryan - ""Gone Baby Gone"" as Helene McCready 300 I'm Not There The Brothers Solomon St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2007 The 4th St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards were given on December 24, 2007. Daniel Day-Lewis - ""There Will Be Blood"" as Daniel Plainview Ellen Page - ""Juno"" as Juno MacGuff Ratatouille ""The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"" - Roger Deakins Ethan & Joel Coen - ""No Country for Old Men"" Sicko No Country for Old Men Juno The Diving Bell"
"Coen brothers Joel Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Coen (born September 21, 1957), collectively referred to as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. Their films span many genres and styles, which they frequently subvert or parody. Their most acclaimed works include ""Miller's Crossing"" (1990), ""Barton Fink"" (1991), ""Fargo"" (1996), ""The Big Lebowski"" (1998), ""No Country for Old Men"" (2007), ""True Grit"" (2010), and ""Inside Llewyn Davis"" (2013). The brothers write, direct and produce their films jointly, although until ""The Ladykillers"" (2004) Joel received sole credit for directing and Ethan for producing. They often alternate top billing for their"
"were nominated for ""Fargo"". Coen brothers filmography Joel David Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957), collectively referred to as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. Their films span many genres and styles, which they frequently subvert or parody. The brothers write, direct and produce their films jointly. The Coen brothers have been nominated for thirteen Academy Awards together, and individually for one award each, winning Best Original Screenplay for ""Fargo"" and Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for ""No Country for Old Men"". The duo also won the Palme d'Or for"
"and ""The Man Who Wasn't There"") after working as assistant editor on four of their earlier films (""Miller's Crossing"", ""Barton Fink"", ""The Hudsucker Proxy"", and ""Fargo""). Michael R. Miller edited ""Raising Arizona"" and ""Miller's Crossing"". Coen brothers Joel Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Coen (born September 21, 1957), collectively referred to as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. Their films span many genres and styles, which they frequently subvert or parody. Their most acclaimed works include ""Miller's Crossing"" (1990), ""Barton Fink"" (1991), ""Fargo"" (1996), ""The Big Lebowski"" (1998), ""No Country for Old Men"" (2007), ""True Grit"" (2010), and"
"Ethan is also a writer of short stories, theater and poetry. Known for many distinctive stylistic trademarks including genre hybridity, the brothers' films ""No Country for Old Men"", ""A Serious Man"" and ""Inside Llewyn Davis"" have been ranked in the BBC's 2016 poll of the greatest motion pictures since 2000. Joel and Ethan Coen were born and raised in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. Their mother, Rena (née Neumann), was an art historian at St. Cloud State University, and their father, Edward Coen, was an economist at the University of Minnesota. Their family is Jewish. When they"
"Coen brothers filmography Joel David Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957), collectively referred to as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. Their films span many genres and styles, which they frequently subvert or parody. The brothers write, direct and produce their films jointly. The Coen brothers have been nominated for thirteen Academy Awards together, and individually for one award each, winning Best Original Screenplay for ""Fargo"" and Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for ""No Country for Old Men"". The duo also won the Palme d'Or for ""Barton Fink"" (1991) and"
"No Country for Old Men (film) No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American crime thriller film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel of the same name. A cat and mouse thriller starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, it follows a Texas welder and Vietnam veteran in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. The film revisits the themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance that the Coen brothers had explored in the films ""Blood Simple"" (1984) and ""Fargo"" (1996). ""No Country for Old Men"" premiered in competition at"
"body double was needed for Elizabeth Marvel (who played the adult Mattie). After a nationwide call, the Coen brothers cast Ruth Morris – a 29-year-old social worker and student who was born without a left forearm. Morris has more screen time in the film than Marvel. In the holiday weekend following its December 22 North American debut, ""True Grit"" took in $25.6 million at the box office, twice its pre-release projections. By its second weekend ending January 2, the film had earned $87.1 million domestically, becoming the Coen brothers' highest-grossing film, surpassing ""No Country for Old Men"", which earned $74.3"
"box office bonus after a determination that his deal was misdrafted by studio attorneys, who settled with Paramount for $2.6 million over that error. No Country for Old Men (film) No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American crime thriller film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel of the same name. A cat and mouse thriller starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, it follows a Texas welder and Vietnam veteran in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. The film revisits the themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance"
"True Grit (2010 film) True Grit is a 2010 American Revisionist Western film directed, written, produced, and edited by the Coen brothers and executively produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the second adaptation of Charles Portis' 1968 novel of the same name, which was previously filmed in 1969 starring John Wayne and Glen Campbell. This version stars Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross and Jeff Bridges as Deputy U.S. Marshal Reuben J. ""Rooster"" Cogburn, along with Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Barry Pepper. Feisty 14 year-old farm girl Mattie Ross (Steinfeld) hires Cogburn, a boozy, trigger-happy lawman (Bridges) after an outlaw"
"Men"" became the biggest box-office hit for the Coens to date, until it was surpassed by ""True Grit"" in 2010. ""No Country for Old Men"" is the third-lowest-grossing Oscar winner, only surpassing ""Crash"" (2005) and ""The Hurt Locker"" (2009). ""The final balance sheet was a $74 million gross"" domestically. ""Miramax"" employed its typical 'gradual-release' strategy: it was ""released in November... was initially given a limited release... and... benefited from the nomination and the win, with weekend grosses picking up after each."" By contrast, the previous year's winner, ""The Departed"" was a ""Best Picture winner with the time series chart that"
"Old Men"" – Joel & Ethan Coen ""There Will Be Blood"" – Jonny Greenwood Sarah Polley – ""Away from Her"" Nikki Blonsky – ""Hairspray"" Online Film Critics Society Awards 2007 The 11th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 2007, were given on 9 January 2008. No Country for Old Men Joel & Ethan Coen – ""No Country for Old Men"" Daniel Day-Lewis – ""There Will Be Blood"" Julie Christie – ""Away from Her"" Javier Bardem – ""No Country for Old Men"" Amy Ryan – ""Gone Baby Gone"" ""Juno"" – Diablo Cody ""No Country for Old"
"screenplays while sharing editing credits under the alias Roderick Jaynes. They have been nominated for 13 Academy Awards together, and individually for one award each, winning Best Original Screenplay for ""Fargo"" and Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for ""No Country for Old Men"". The duo also won the Palme d'Or for ""Barton Fink"" (1991). The Coens have written a number of films they did not direct, including the biographical war drama ""Unbroken"" (2014), the historical legal thriller ""Bridge of Spies"" (2015), and lesser-known, commercially unsuccessful comedies such as ""Crimewave"" (1985), ""The Naked Man"" (1998) and ""Gambit"" (2012)."
"discussion with the crew hosted by Spike Jonze, and a variety of interviews with the cast and the Coens from ""EW.com Just a Minute"", ""ABC Popcorn"" with Peter Travers, and an installment of ""Charlie Rose"". Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes surveyed 280 critical responses and judged 93% of them to be positive, with an average rating of 8.7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, ""Bolstered by powerful lead performances from Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, and Tommy Lee Jones, ""No Country for Old Men"" finds the Coen brothers spinning cinematic gold out of Cormac McCarthy's grim, darkly funny novel."". The film also holds"
"We don't want to take anyone else's."" The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 7, 2011. True Grit (2010 film) True Grit is a 2010 American Revisionist Western film directed, written, produced, and edited by the Coen brothers and executively produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the second adaptation of Charles Portis' 1968 novel of the same name, which was previously filmed in 1969 starring John Wayne and Glen Campbell. This version stars Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross and Jeff Bridges as Deputy U.S. Marshal Reuben J. ""Rooster"" Cogburn, along with Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Barry"
"same category for ""Inside Llewyn Davis"". Skip Lievsay Skip Lievsay is an American supervising sound editor, re-recording mixer and sound designer for film and television, Lievsay has worked with filmmakers and directors including the Coen brothers, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Jonathan Demme and Robert Altman. In January 2007, he received two Academy Award nominations—for Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing—for his work on Joel and Ethan Coen's ""No Country for Old Men"". In 2011, he was nominated in the same categories for the film ""True Grit"". In 2014, he won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for ""Gravity"";"
"Ethan Coen. The film was nominated for nine BAFTAs in 2008 and won in three categories; Joel and Ethan Coen winning the award for Best Director, Roger Deakins winning for Best Cinematography and Javier Bardem winning for Best Supporting Actor. It has also been awarded the David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film. ""No Country for Old Men"" received recognition from numerous North American critics' associations (New York Film Critics Circle, Toronto Film Critics Association, Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Online, Chicago Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, Austin"
"Skip Lievsay Skip Lievsay is an American supervising sound editor, re-recording mixer and sound designer for film and television, Lievsay has worked with filmmakers and directors including the Coen brothers, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Jonathan Demme and Robert Altman. In January 2007, he received two Academy Award nominations—for Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing—for his work on Joel and Ethan Coen's ""No Country for Old Men"". In 2011, he was nominated in the same categories for the film ""True Grit"". In 2014, he won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for ""Gravity""; he was also nominated in the"
"Serious Man"", released October 2, 2009, a ""gentle but dark"" period comedy (set in 1967) with a low budget. The film is based loosely on the Coens' childhoods in an academic family in the largely Jewish suburb of Saint Louis Park, Minnesota; it also drew comparisons to the ""Book of Job"". Filming took place late in the summer of 2008, in the neighborhoods of Roseville and Bloomington, Minnesota, at Normandale Community College, and at St. Olaf College. The film was nominated for the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. ""True Grit"" (2010) is based on the 1968 novel"
"violent brutal world, and you have to see that."" ""Los Angeles Times"" critic Kenneth Turan commented on the violence depicted in the film: ""The Coen brothers dropped the mask. They've put violence on screen before, lots of it, but not like this. Not anything like this. ""No Country for Old Men"" doesn't celebrate or smile at violence; it despairs of it."" However, Turan explained that ""no one should see ""No Country for Old Men"" underestimating the intensity of its violence. But it's also clear that the Coen brothers and McCarthy are not interested in violence for its own sake, but"
"Lehane on board for the screenplay. Chernin Entertainment will produce. The Coen brothers' own film production company, Mike Zoss Productions located in New York City, has been credited on their films from ""O Brother, Where Art Thou?"" onwards. It was named after Mike Zoss Drug, an independent pharmacy in St. Louis Park since 1950 that was the brothers' beloved hangout when they were growing up in the Twin Cities. The name was also used for the pharmacy in ""No Country for Old Men"". The Mike Zoss logo consists of a crayon drawing of horse, standing in a field of grass,"
"an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. In January 2008, two of Rudin's productions—the Coen brothers' ""No Country for Old Men"", which they adapted from the Cormac McCarthy book of the same name, and Paul Thomas Anderson's ""There Will Be Blood"", which was adapted from the Upton Sinclair novel, ""Oil!""—were nominated for eight Oscars apiece at the 2008 Academy Awards, including a Best Picture nod for each of them. The two films shared the distinction of being the most nominated movies at that year's Oscar ceremony. Ultimately, ""No Country for Old Men"" won the Best Picture prize. Rudin won Primetime"
"Detroit Film Critics Society The Detroit Film Critics Society is a film critic organization based in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It was founded in 2007 and comprises a group of over twenty film critics. To become a member, the critic must have reviewed at least twelve films a year in an established publication with no more than two per publication admitted. It presents annual awards at the end of the year, for the best films of the preceding year. No Country for Old Men Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – ""No Country for Old Men"" George Clooney – ""Michael Clayton"""
"which means that it offers almost zero in character development. Each of the figures is given, a la standard thriller operating procedure, a single moral or psychological attribute and then acts in accordance to that principle and nothing else, without doubts, contradictions or ambivalence."" ""No Country for Old Men"" was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won four, including Best Picture. Additionally, Javier Bardem won Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role; the Coen brothers won Achievement in Directing (Best Director) and Best Adapted Screenplay. Other nominations included Best Film Editing (the Coen brothers as Roderick Jaynes), Best"
"several cats would be available to play one part. Individual cats were then selected for each scene based on what they were predisposed to do on their own. Producer Scott Rudin, who worked with the Coens on ""No Country for Old Men"" and ""True Grit"", collaborated on the project. StudioCanal helped finance it without an American distributor in place. ""After shooting in New York City and elsewhere last year ... the brothers finished the movie at their own pace"", wrote Michael Cieply in a January 2013 ""New York Times"" interview with Joel Coen ahead of a private, pre-Grammys screening in"
"by popular 1960s artists: The film began a limited release in the United States on October 2, 2009. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2009. ""A Serious Man"" grossed $9,228,768 domestically, and $22,201,566 internationally, making for a worldwide gross of $31,430,334. ""A Serious Man"" received mostly positive reviews from critics, and holds a 90% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 209 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ""Blending dark humor with profoundly personal themes, the Coen brothers deliver what might be their most mature – if not their"
"When the leather of a briefcase squeaks against the metal of a ventilation shaft, you'll cringe, and the distant echo of a telephone ringing in a hotel lobby will jangle your nerves."" While ""No Country for Old Men"" is a ""doggedly faithful"" adaptation of McCarthy's 2005 novel and its themes, the film also revisits themes which the Coens had explored in their earlier movies ""Blood Simple"" and ""Fargo"". The three films share common themes, such as pessimism and nihilism. The novel's motifs of chance, free-will, and predestination are familiar territory for the Coen brothers, who presented similar threads and tapestries"
"work includes the role of Mike Sorayama in the Adult Swim animated television series ""The Venture Bros."" and the role of Judge Pete in the critically acclaimed independent film ""Rocket Science"" (2007). Park has acted in two Coen brothers films, ""Fargo"" (1996) and ""A Serious Man"" (2009). Park married Kelly Coffield, another former cast member of ""In Living Color"", in 1999. They have a son, Owen, and a daughter, Eliza. Steve Park (comedian) Stephen Park is an American comedian and actor. The son of Korean immigrants, Park began his entertainment career as a stand-up comedian before transitioning into acting. He"
"Jake (1984); Don't Quit; Get Strong! Body by Jake's Guide to Building Confidence, Muscles and a Great Future for Teenage Guys (2002); I've Seen a Lot of Famous People Naked and They've Got Nothing on You! (2005); and Take A Shot!, A Remarkable Story of Perseverance, Friendship, and a Really Crazy Adventure (2012). Steinfeld and his wife have four children. Through his brother Peter, Steinfeld is the uncle of actress Hailee Steinfeld, who starred in the 2010 Coen brothers film ""True Grit."" He is of Jewish descent. While born in Sea Gate in Brooklyn, Jake was raised in Baldwin, Long"
"""No Country for Old Men"" that were quite interesting for us"", he said, ""because it was the idea of the physical work that somebody does that helps reveal who they are and is part of the fiber of the story. Because you only saw this person in this movie making things and doing things in order to survive and to make this journey, and the fact that you were thrown back on that, as opposed to any dialogue, was interesting to us."" Coen stated that this is the brothers' ""first adaptation"". He further explained why they chose the novel: ""Why"
"acclaim and box office success. On January 27, 2008, the film won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. On February 24, 2008, it won four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director (Joel and Ethan Coen), Best Adapted Screenplay (Joel and Ethan Coen), and Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh). The source novel may have been influenced by the 1973 film Charley Varrick, which features similar plot elements as the American Southwest, stolen money that is ruthlessly tracked down, and milk-drinking. No Country for Old Men No Country for Old"
"for earthly wrongdoing. The Coens have finished the noughties as America's preeminent filmmakers"". ""A Serious Man"" was later voted the 82nd greatest film since 2000 in an international critics' poll conducted by BBC. ""A Serious Man"" received numerous awards and nominations, primarily within the categories of Best Picture, Screenplay, Cast, and Cinematography. Joel and Ethan Coen were awarded Best Original Screenplay at the 2009 National Board of Review Awards and the 2010 National Society of Film Critics Awards. The screenplay was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 2010 Academy Awards. Other nominations for Best Original Screenplay include acknowledgment"
"and his skill, he overcomes the odds and triumphs... In film noir, on the other hand, the hero is smart (more or less) and wily and there are many obstacles to overcome, the odds are against him, and, in fact, he fails to overcome them... This genre reflects the pessimism and fatalism of the American psyche. With ""No Country for Old Men"", the Coens combine these two genres into one movie. It is a western with a tragic, existential, film noir ending."" One of the themes in the story involves the tension between destiny and self-determination. According to Richard Gillmore,"