“No Country for Old Men” took home three prizes at the 13th annual Critics’ Choice Award held Monday at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, for best picture, best director (Joel and Ethan Coen) and best supporting actor (Spanish actor Javier Bardem).

The Critics’ Choice edition should give us a hint on some of the Academy Award winners this year, as it has been the case for the past 12 years.However, the 2001 Oscar nominee Bardem said after the ceremony: “I don’t think about Academy Awards, or anything. I’m from Spain.”

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.

Movie Type: Drama, Thriller, Western
MPAA Rating: R for strong graphic violence and some language.
Running Time: 2 hrs. 2 min
Directed By: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Beth Grant, Garret Dillahunt
Released: December 7th, 2007 (wide)
U.S. Box Office: $44,759,744