Oscars, Directing Winner.


80th Annual Academy Awards 2008.


The Oscar 2008 for Directing goes to Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men.


Ethan Coen said...

I don't have a lot to add to what I said earlier. Thank you.

Joel Coen said...

Ethan and I have been making stories with movie cameras since we were kids. In the late '60s when Ethan was 11 or 12, he got a suit and a briefcase and we went to the Minneapolis International Airport with a Super 8 camera and made a movie about shuttle diplomacy called "Henry Kissinger, Man on the Go." And honestly, what we do now doesn't feel that much different from what we were doing then. There are too many people to thank for this. We're really thrilled to have received it, and we're very thankful to all of you out there for letting us continue to play in our corner of the sandbox, so thank you very much.

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Oscars, Best Picture Winner.


80th Annual Academy Awards 2008.


The Oscar 2008 for the Best Picture goes to Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men.


Scott Rudin said....

This is an unbelievable honor and a complete surprise. So many people have a part of this, chief among them Cormac McCarthy, who wrote a wonderful book that it was an honor to make into a movie. The three men sitting down front, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee JOnes, Javier Bardem, without them there would be no movie.

These two gentlemen [to Joel and Ethan Coen], I can't think of anybody I would rather be standing here with than the two of you. Thank you so much for this.

Everybody at Vantage and Miramax who financed the movie together. The entire team at Miramax who did a brilliant, brilliant job selling it. Thank you to all of them.

I want to thank Mark Roybal, It's a pleasure to work with Him every day.

I want to thank my friend, Sydney Pollack, who taught me that with the responsibility -- with the opportunity to make movies comes the responsibility of making them good. This for him.

This is also for my partner John Barlow. Without you, honey, this would be hardware. Thank you so much. Thank you.

No Country for Old Men Synopsis.



When Llewellyn Moss comes upon a corpse-strewn drug-deal-gone-wrong in the middle of the barren West Texas range, he takes the bag of cash he finds at the scene and soon draws the attention of the county sheriff investigating the crime. Sheriff Bell will become Llewellyn's best hope for survival, however, when he finds himself the object of a relentless pursuit by hired killer Anton Chigurh, a murderous sociopath.

Oscars, Adopted Screen Play Winner


80th Annual Academy Awards 2008.


The Oscar 2008 for Adopted Screenplay goes to Joel Coen & Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men.


Joel Coen said...

Thank you very much for this. Thank you, Scott Rudin for bringing us this novel and giving us the opportunity to make the movie. I think whatever success we've had in this area has been entirely attributable to how selective we are. We've only adapted Homer and Cormac McCarthy, so thank you.

Ethan Coen said....

We, uh... Thank you very much.

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