“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
