Well, it’s yet more good news for Joel and Ethan Coen. Their adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men has earned them another prestigious award, this time as part of the Producer’s Guild of America. The film was up against Juno, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

No Country has won a silly amount of awards since its November release, and is the favourite to be Best Picture  at this year’s Oscars ceremony (although it has tough competition from There Will be Blood and Atonement). If it wins, it will be quite a surprising achievement. No Country is an astounding film, but hardly the film I would expect to be so commercially successful (its the Coens biggest selling film in the US), with its deliberately anticlimactic conclusion and philsophical epilogue. Nevertheless, here’s hoping the Academy will break their spell of disappointing accolades.