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‘No Country for Old Men’ Wins Oscar Tug of War

By DAVID M. HALBFINGER and MICHAEL CIEPLY

HOLLYWOOD — “No Country for Old Men,” Joel and Ethan Coen’s chilling confrontation of a desperate man with a relentless killer, won the Academy Award for best picture on Sunday night, providing a more-than-satisfying ending for the makers of a film that many believed lacked one.
The Coens, who […]

The Red (Can’t Go Wrong) and the Black (Sober Is So 2008)

Fashion By ERIC WILSON

HOLLYWOOD — The movie industry must have woken up from the writers’ strike with a rotten hangover, unable to even think about frivolous things like parties and frocks. It was such a buzz kill that quite a few of the actors on the red carpet at the Academy Awards looked as […]

Kiss-and-Make-Up Jitters at a Poststrike Oscars

By DAVID M. HALBFINGER and MICHAEL CIEPLY

HOLLYWOOD — Javier Bardem won the Oscar for best supporting actor on Sunday night for his role as the cattlegun-wielding, pageboy-wearing serial killer of “No Country for Old Men,” as the Academy Awards gave a bruised movie industry a chance to refocus its inward gaze on laurels […]

Stars Seize Their Chance to Shine at SAG Awards

By EDWARD WYATT

LOS ANGELES — There is no show business without a show. And so, in a year when a writers’ strike has all but shut down much of Hollywood, the Screen Actors Guild Awards — as anonymous in most years as “Cop No. 3” in a summer blockbuster — took top billing Sunday […]

‘No Country’ and ‘Blood’ Lead Oscar Nominations

By BROOKS BARNES AND DAVID CARR

LOS ANGELES — Roll out the black carpet. A lineup of films bleak in tone and worldview will take center stage at the 80th annual Academy Awards next month, with critical darlings like “There Will Be Blood,” “No Country for Old Men” and “Michael Clayton” dominating the nominations, including […]

‘Atonement’ Wins Best Drama at Globes

By DAVID CARR and MICHAEL CIEPLY

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Amid the barest hint of star power at a Golden Globes ceremony derailed by striking screenwriters, “Atonement” captured the award for best drama and “Sweeney Todd” won for best musical or comedy on Sunday.

Daniel Day-Lewis won for best actor in a drama, giving […]