November
21
Awards Season: Coens Winning Directors Poll
The results are fascinating for Awards Daily's "director you're most thankful for in 2007" poll: the Coen brothers are the winners by a mile. No contest. P.T. Anderson is the only one who comes even close. It's not surprising that they are beloved, not only for No Country for Old Men, but for their entire body of work.
While No Country for Old Men is among the best-reviewed pics of the year and will wind up on many critics' ten-best lists, I keep running into Academy members who were left cold. Anthony Lane's New Yorker review happens to mirror some of their comments. Yes, it's a critics' picture. But I still think the Academy writers, directors, and actors will push No Country for Old Men into best-picture contention. DP Roger Deakins should also land a nom for his 9th film with the Coens--probably over his stellar work in The Assassination of Jesse James, which has been been seen by fewer people.
UPDATE: Here's David Edelstein on the Coens in New York, Newsday's feature on Josh Brolin, Peter Travers' Rolling Stone rave and Saturday's terrific column by Michael Sragow, which compares No Country to the work of the late great Sam Peckinpah.
[Photos for New York Magazine by Andrew Eccles]



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