Anyone know this guy?

Cormac McCarthy (86)

10 novels (He says he has 3 more unpublished)

16 major awards including one Pulitzer (The Road)

“One of the four major American novelists”

(Roth, DeLillo, Pynchon) “Blood Meridian is the greatest single book since Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying”

Literary critic Harold Bloom

No Country for Old Men (2007)

Won 76 awards on 109 nominations across multiple organizations, including 4 Oscars on 8 nominations.Tenth Best Film of 21st

century (177 film critics from across the world)

No Country for Old Men

SHOW OF HANDS: how many have never seen this film before?

• Director: Joel Coen (married to Frances McDormand) and Ethan Coen

• Producer: Coens and Scott Rudin• Writer: the Coen brothers• Music: Carter Burwell• Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem & Josh

Brolin• Premiered at Cannes May 19, 2007• Released November 9, 2007• Budget $25 million; box office $171.6 million

No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men

• Based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy.

• There is some music in the movie, scored by the Coens' longtime composer, Carter Burwell, but after finding that "most musical instruments didn't fit with the minimalist sound sculpture he had in mind ... he used singing bowls, standing metal bells traditionally employed in Buddhist meditation practice that produce a sustained tone when rubbed.“

• Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said that it is "a new career peak for the Coen brothers" and "as entertaining as hell".

• Rotten Tomatoes score: Critics 93% ; Audience 86%

The Directors

Ethan Coen Joel Coen

Coen Brothers’ resume

• Ethan has 24 credits as a director. Joel has 26 director credits. Both have 30+ writer credits.

–Directorial efforts include:

• Blood Simple (1984)

• Fargo (1996)

• The Big Lebowski (1998)

• O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000)

• Burn After Reading (2008)

Coen Brothers’ awards

• Have 135 wins and 301 other nominations

–4 Oscars as noted

–10 other Oscar nominations

–5 nominations for Golden Globes

–12 nominations for BAFTA awards

–Nominated 6 times for AARP Movies for Grownups Awards

Carter Burwell resume

• Has 102 credits as composer, 22 credits for Soundtrack

– Some composer things include + Blood Simple (1984)

+ Raising Arizona (1987)

+ Doc Hollywood (1991)

+ Big Lebowski (1998)

+ Three Kings (1999)

+ Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

Carter Burwell (64)

Has scored 87 movies

Carter Burwell resume

• Has 102 Composer credits

• Has 29 wins and 77 other nominations

–2 Oscar Nominations for

+ 2015 Original Score: Carol

+ 2017 Original Score: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Winner for:

2011 Prime Time Emmy for Mildred Pierce

Javier Bardem

Javier Bardem

• Age 50, was 38 at time of the movie• Called heir apparent to Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson

and Robert Deniro• 29 nominations for No Country for Old Men• Spanish actor cast as Anton Chigorh in spite of:

1. Very limited English2. Had never driven a car3. Had never handled a gun

#26 on list of most vile villains in movie history

Javier Bardem

• Has 64 credits as actor

+ The Sea Inside (2004)

+ Biutiful (2010)

+ Skyfall (2012)

Has 103 nominations and 85 wins

+ 2008 Oscar for No Country for Old Men

+ 2008 Golden Globe for No Country

Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones resume

• Has 83 credits as actor

+ Love Story (1970) as Oliver’s roommate

+ JFK (1991)

+ Lincoln (2012)

Has 89 nominations and 43 wins

+ 1994 Oscar for The Fugitive

+ 1994 Golden Globe for The Fugitive

Josh Brolin

Josh Brolin resume

• Has 72 credits as actor

+ The Mod Squad (1999)

+ W. (2008)

+ Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Has 53 nominations and 17 wins

+ 2009 Oscar nomination for Milk

+ 2008 Hollywood Film Award for W.

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