Among its four Oscars at the 2007 Academy Awards were awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, allowing the Coen brothers to join the five previous directors honored three times for a single film.[4][5] In addition, the film won threeBritish Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) including Best Director,[6] and two Golden Globes.[7] The American Film Institute listed it as an AFI Movie of the Year,[8] and the National Board of Review selected the film as the best of 2007.[9]
The film premiered in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on May 19.[10] It commercially opened in limited release in 28 theaters in the United States on November 9, 2007, grossing $1,226,333 over the opening weekend, and opened in the United Kingdom (limited release) and Ireland on January 18, 2008.[11] It became the biggest box-office hit for the Coen brothers to date,[12]grossing more than $170 million worldwide,[13] until it was surpassed by True Grit in 2010.[14]
No Country for Old Men appeared on more critics' top ten lists (354) than any other film of 2007, and was the most selected as the best film of the year.[15] It is regarded by many critics as the Coen brothers' finest film.[16][17][18][19] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it "as good a film as the Coen brothers...have ever made,"[16] The Guardian journalist John Patterson said "that the Coens' technical abilities, and their feel for a landscape-based Western classicism reminiscent of Anthony Mann and Sam Peckinpah, are matched by few living directors,"[20] and Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said that it is "a new career peak for the Coen brothers" and is "as entertaining as hell."[21]
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