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This page contains acceptance speeches from The Coen Brothers during the 2008 Oscars.
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Fast Facts:
- Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director
- Movie: No Country for Old Men
- Presenters: Josh Brolin and Martin Scorsese
- At the 2008 Oscars
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Competition for Best Director
- Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Jason Reitman for Juno
- Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton
- Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood
Coen Brothers Best Adapted Screenplay Acceptance Speech: Thank you very much for this. Thank you Scott Rudin for bringing us the novel and giving us a chance to make this movie. Whatever success we've had in this area is entirely attributable to how selective we are. We've only adapted Homer and Cormac McCarthy. Thank you.
- Thank you very much.
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Coen Brothers Best Directing Oscar Award Speech from [http://www.oscars.org Oscars.org]:
- Ethan Coen:
- I don't have a lot to add to what I said earlier. Thank you.
- Joel Coen:
- Ethan and I have been making stories with movie cameras since we were kids. In the late '60s when Ethan was 11 or 12, he got a suit and a briefcase and we went to the Minneapolis International Airport with a Super 8 camera and made a movie about shuttle diplomacy called "Henry Kissinger, Man on the Go." And honestly, what we do now doesn't feel that much different from what we were doing then. There are too many people to thank for this. We're really thrilled to have received it, and we're very thankful to all of you out there for letting us continue to play in our corner of the sandbox, so thank you very much.
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Coen Brothers Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Acceptance Speech
- YouTube Video: Best Adapted Screenplay (Time: 3:13)
- Coen Brothers Oscar Acceptance Speech: Thank you very much for this. Than you Scott Rudin for bringing us the novel and giving us a chance to make this movie. Whateve success we've had in this area is entirely attributable to how selective we are. We've only adapted Homer and Cormac McCarthy. Thank you.
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Coen Brothers Best Directing Oscar Award Speech
- YouTube Video: Achievement in Directing (Time: 2:51)
- Coen Brothers Best Directing Oscar Award Speech from Oscars.org:
- Ethan Coen:
- I don't have a lot to add to what I said earlier. Thank you.
- Joel Coen:
- Ethan and I have been making stories with movie cameras since we were kids. In the late '60s when Ethan was 11 or 12, he got a suit and a briefcase and we went to the Minneapolis International Airport with a Super 8 camera and made a movie about shuttle diplomacy called "Henry Kissinger, Man on the Go." And honestly, what we do now doesn't feel that much different from what we were doing then. There are too many people to thank for this. We're really thrilled to have received it, and we're very thankful to all of you out there for letting us continue to play in our corner of the sandbox, so thank you very much.
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