The Coen brothers' dark crime thriller "No Country for
Old Men" won the best feature film award from the Producers Guild
of America.
The good news follows after last week directing duo Joel and
Ethan Coen have won the top prize at the 60th annual Directors Guild of America
(DGA) Awards for their work on “No Country for Old Men”.
The movie already won three prizes at the 13th annual
Critics’ Choice Award held in January at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, for
best picture, best director (Joel and Ethan Coen) and best supporting actor
(Spanish actor Javier Bardem).
Also, the cast of "No Country For Old Men"
including Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem, was cited for best
ensemble performance by the Screen Actors Guild.
The movie won two Golden Globe Awards for Best Performance
by an Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Screenplay.
With such impressive awards, “No Country For Old Men” is now
considered the main favorite in the race for Oscars. “No Country For Old Men” is
nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Coen
Brothers), Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem), Best Adapted Screenplay (Coen
Brothers), Best Film Editing (Roderick Jaynes) and Best Cinematography (Roger
Deakins).
The film is based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel, who inspired
the name of his book from Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium”, and follows a series
of events at the United States – Mexico border in 1980, where a drug deal gone
bad changes the lives of three people, Llewellyn Moss, a Vietnam veteran,
sheriff Ed Tom Bell and Anton Chigurh, a sociopath hired to recover the $2.4
million cash lost during the drug deal.
“No Country For Old Men” is also a commercial success with $50,128,000
earnings in the United States
and Canada.
In case you’ve missed it, the trailer of the movie can be
seen here.
During the Saturday gala held at the Beverly Hilton, PGA
named HBO’s "The Sopranos" as the Best TV Drama.
NBC's "30 Rock" repeated its recent Emmy feat by
being named top comedy series, while "Ratatouille" was designated as the
Best Animated Film).
Michael Moore’s documentary about the US health systems won
The Best Documentary prize, and "Bury
My Heart at Wounded Knee", the Best Long-form TV. Discovery Channel's
"Planet Earth" won for best nonfiction television program.