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Colin Covert predicts: Best director

Posted on February 24th, 2008 – 11:33 PM
By Sara Glassman
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The nominees are:

“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn), Julian Schnabel

“Juno” (A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production), Jason Reitman

“Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.), Tony Gilroy

“No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

“There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Paul Thomas Anderson

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Covert picks: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, “No Country for Old Men.” After 25 years of making beautifully formed, commercially negligible outsider films, the Coens will be welcomed into the Hollywood establishment for their first modest hit.

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