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| No Country for Old Men |
Best Picture, 2007
Awards presented February 24, 2008
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Once again the Coen brothers demonstrate their exceptional sense of place, using the bleak landscape of south Texas the way they did the bleak landscape of Minnesota and North Dakota in Fargo, as a stage for human drama. Which means that mixed in with the serious stuff there's a good deal of black humor, too. It deservedly won the best picture Oscar, as well as the directing and writing awards for the brothers, and the supporting actor Oscar for Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh, a villain as implacable as the Terminator, but with a worse haircut.
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