LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Coen brothers completed
their journey from the fringes to Hollywood's mainstream on Sunday,
their crime saga "No Country for Old Men" winning four Academy Awards,
including best picture, in a ceremony that also featured a strong
international flavor.
Javier Bardem won for
supporting actor in "No Country," which earned Joel and Ethan Coen best
director, best adapted screenplay and the best-picture honor as
producers.
Accepting the directing honor
alongside his brother, Joel Coen recalled how they were making films
since childhood, including one at the Minneapolis airport called "Henry
Kissinger: Man on the Go."
"What we do now
doesn't feel that much different from what we were doing then," Joel
Coen said. "We're very thankful to all of you out there for continuing
to let us play in our corner of the sandbox."
Daniel
Day-Lewis won his second best-actor Academy Award for the oil-boom epic
"There Will Be Blood," while "La Vie En Rose" star Marion Cotillard was
a surprise winner for best actress, riding the spirit of Edith Piaf to
Oscar triumph over Julie Christie, who had been expected to win for
"Away From Her."
All four acting prizes went
to Europeans: Frenchwoman Cotillard, Spaniard Bardem, and Brits
Day-Lewis and Tilda Swinton, the supporting-actress winner for "Michael
Clayton."
As a raging, conniving, acquisitive
petroleum pioneer caught up in California's oil boom of the early 20th
century, Day-Lewis won for a part that could scarcely have been more
different than his understated role as a writer with severe cerebral
palsy in 1989's "My Left Foot."
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