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No Country For Old Men Sweeps Online Film Critics Society Awards
NEW YORK, January 9, 2008 – “No Country For Old Men” was the major winner in the 11th Annual Online Film Critics Society Awards, sweeping six categories including Best Picture. The awards were voted by the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS), the international professional association of Internet-based cinema journalists.
Through “No Country For Old Men,” Joel & Ethan Coen won three separate categories: Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing. The film also earned awards for Javier Bardem as Best Supporting Actor and Roger Deakins for Best Cinematography.
The complete winners list for the OFCS Awards are as follows:
BEST PICTURE: No Country For Old Men
BEST DIRECTOR: Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men
BEST ACTOR: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
BEST ACTRESS: Julie Christie, Away From Her
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Diablo Cody, Juno
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roger Deakins, No Country for Old Men
BEST EDITING: Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Johnny Greenwood, There Will Be Blood
BEST DOCUMENTARY: The King of Kong
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (France-USA)
BEST ANIMATED FILM: Ratatouille
BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER: Sarah Polley, Away From Her
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER: Nikki Blonsky, Hairspray
Founded in 1997, the Online Film Critics Society has been the key force in establishing and raising the standards for Internet-based film journalism. The OFCS membership spans the U.S., Canada, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Asia/Pacific Rim region. The Society's web site, which has been hosted since January 2001 by the highly influential film resource Rotten Tomatoes (www.rottentomatoes.com), provides the most comprehensive online listing of reviews and original interviews with the leading artists in today's cinema, plus links to the most important motion picture-related web sites.
For more information, visit the Online Film Critics Society at www.ofcs.org.
For a complete list of the year's nominees, click here.
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