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Not Chosen for Oscar
The Coen brothers with “No Country for Old Men” won four Oscars, including the best picture, at the 80th Annual Academy Awards Ceremony staged at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood February 24, 2008. None of Russia’s nominees – Sergei Bodrov, Nikita Mikhalkov and Alexander Petrov – was favored by the Academy.
In addition to being the most yielding movie of the Coen Brothers - “No Country for Old Men” has generated $64 million already – it has booked them a solid place in the Hollywood establishment and added to the short list of three-Oscar winners. On the other hand, the film has stripped them of the marginal status.
Another surprise of the recent ceremony is that the Europeans won all four acting prizes. Daniel Day-Lewis got Oscar for the actor’s leading role in “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Javier Bardem won the actor’s supporting role in “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage). The actress leading Oscar went to Marion Cotillard for “La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse) and Tilda Swinton with “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.) won the actress supporting role nomination.
As to the Russians, Sergei Bodrov’s “Mongol” and Nikita Mikhalkov’s “12” lost not even to Andrzej Wajda's “Katyn” but to some little-known “The Counterfeiters” of Austria. The comments of Russia’s Channel 1 that covered the ceremony were philosophical – our films are much more significant the absence of any awards notwithstanding and the Academy makes mistakes sometimes.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Feb. 26, 2008
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