No Country for Old Men (2007)
- 2007
- ·R
- ·122 min
No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western thriller film directed, written, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name.
Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin, it tells the story of a Texas welder and Vietnam veteran to whom chance and greed deliver a fate that is neither wanted nor denied; a cat-and-mouse drama set 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 Blood Simple and Fargo.
The film 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.
More critics included No Country for Old Men on their 2007 top ten lists than any other film, and many regard it as the Coen brothers' masterpiece, as well as one of the best films of the 2000s.
The Guardian's John Patterson said the Coens' technical abilities, and their feel for a landscape-based Western classicism reminiscent of Anthony Mann and Sam Peckinpah, are matched by few living directors, and Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said that it is a new career peak for the Coen brothers and as entertaining as hell.
- Actors
- Javier Bardem·Josh Brolin·Tommy Lee Jones·Woody Harrelson
- Directed by
- Ethan Coen·Joel Coen
- Genre
- Crime·Drama·Thriller
- Language
- English·Spanish
- Country
- USA
- Director
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Online Film & Television Association 2018
- Best Casting
- Best Cinematography
- Best Director
- Best Ensemble
- Best Film Editing
- Best Picture
- Best Sound Mixing
- Best Supporting Actor
- Most Cinematic Moment
- Motion Picture
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2010
- Film of the Decade
Austin Film Critics Association 2009
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Film
- Best Movie of the Decade
- Best Supporting Actor
African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) 2007
- Top 10 Films
AARP Movies for Grownups Awards 2008
- Best Director
- Best Screenwriter
No Country for Old Men is a great film for 2/3s of it after that the movie really does leave you hanging on WTF. This is a Coen brothers film which almost automatically means it will have a great story and clever writing.
Hi everyone, im from Europe, I understand movies about human emotion, about the diverse human scale of emotions and I love most of them, there are numerous films that try and work these emotions, but I just don't get this film. Its part Hollywood, part arty, part filmography and part trying to shock you.
The Coen brothers bring Cormac McCarthy's novel to the screen and it is a very faithful adaptation. It's a beautifully dark, haunting and violent film about the events that unfold when a hunter named Moss (Josh Brolin) comes across a drug-deal gone-wrong out in a Texan desert and takes a bag of $2 million.
