'No Country for Old Men' wins 80th Oscar award in Best picture category

HOLLYWOOD — No Country for Old Men got off to a killer start at the 80th annual Academy Awards.

Javier Bardem, who portrayed a particularly brutal serial killer in No Country, won the first of the “big six” Oscars, in the supporting-actor category.


Soon afterward, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen won the Oscar for adapted screenplay for No Country — based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy.


During his acceptance speech, the Spaniard — directing his comments toward his mother in the audience — told her in Spanish that this Oscar will help “to recover the dignity of actors... and it’s for our pride.”