No Country for Old Men (film)
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| Directed by | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy |
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| Music by | Carter Burwell |
| Cinematography | Roger Deakins |
| Edited by | Roderick Jaynes |
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122 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25 million |
| Box office | $171.6 million |
No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-western neo-noir thriller film directed and written by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthy's eponymous 2005 novel. A cat-and-mouse drama starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, it follows a Texas welder and Vietnam veteran in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. Themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance are explored, ones that the Coen brothers have previously explored in the films Blood Simple (1984) and Fargo (1996).
No Country for Old Men premiered in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on May 19. It won four awards at the 80th Academy Awards – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Bardem) and Best Adapted Screenplay, allowing the Coen brothers to join four previous directors honored three times for a single film. In addition, the film won three British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) including Best Director, and two Golden Globes. The American Film Institute listed it as an AFI Movie of the Year, and the National Board of Review selected the film as the best of 2007.
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