Miramax Films Scores Ten Nominations With 'No Country For Old Men,' 'The Diving Bell And The Butterfly,' 'Gone Baby Gone' and 'There Will Be Blood' as 65th Annual Golden Globe(R) Nominations Are Announced

Miramax Films Scores Ten Nominations With 'No Country For Old Men,' 'The Diving Bell And The Butterfly,' 'Gone Baby Gone' and 'There Will Be Blood' as 65th Annual Golden Globe(R) Nominations Are Announced

'No Country For Old Men*' Receives Four Nominations, including: Best Motion Picture (Drama) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for Best Director of a Motion Picture Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for Best Screenplay Javier Bardem for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

'The Diving Bell And The Butterfly' Honored with Three Nominations Julian Schnabel for Best Director of a Motion Picture Ronald Harwood for Best Screenplay Best Foreign Language Film

'Gone Baby Gone' Lauded with Nomination for Amy Ryan for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

'There Will Be Blood*' Lands Two Nominations: Best Motion Picture (Drama) Daniel Day Lewis for Best Performance by an Actor (Drama)

NEW YORK, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- When the nominations for the 65th Annual Golden Globe(R) nominations were announced today in Los Angeles by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Miramax Films as a company received an amazing ten overall nominations, including four for "No Country For Old Men," three for "The Diving Bell and The Butterfly," one for "Gone Baby Gone," and two for "There Will Be Blood."

"I am so grateful for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's recognition of our films. We are incredibly proud of our three best picture nominations: the four nominations for 'No Country For Old Men,' three for 'The Diving Bell and The Butterfly,' two for 'There Will Be Blood' and that 'Gone Baby Gone' was also acknowledged," said Daniel Battsek, Miramax president.

Bringing the Coen brothers together with one of America's leading novelists, Cormac McCarthy, "No Country For Old Men," is about people dealing with a morally inscrutable universe. The film received a nomination for Best Motion Picture (drama) and is produced by Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, executive producers are Robert Graf and Mark Roybal.

Previous Golden Globe Award-nominees Joel Coen and Ethan Coen received nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay. The Coens won an Academy Award(R) for Best Screenplay for the film "Fargo."

The Golden Globe nominations for "No Country For Old Men," are the latest in a series of honors the film has already received, including Best Film awards from the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Washington Area Film Critics Association, the Boston Society of Film Critics and the Chicago Film Critics Association; Best Acting Ensemble awards from the National Board of Review and the Washington Area Film Critics; Best Director awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, the San Francisco Film Critics Circle and the Chicago Film Critics Association; Best Screenplay from the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle and the Chicago Film Critics Association; and Best Supporting Actor awards for Javier Bardem from New York Film Critics Circle, the Washington Area Film Critics Association, the Boston Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Online and the Chicago Film Critics Association.

Through a mesmerizing blast of color, beauty and humor, and a rousing spirit of creativity, "The Diving Bell and The Butterfly" tells the story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the high-flying editor of French Elle and father of two, who was renowned for his sense of humor and style, his joie de vivre and amorous energy, when, in an instant, his world was plunged into the depths of catastrophe. The film received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, earned Julian Schnabel a nomination for Best Director and Ronald Harwood a nod for Best Screenplay.

With these nominations, "The Diving Bell and The Butterfly" continues an impressive streak of honors that includes: the Best Film award from the New York Film Critics Online; the Best Foreign Film award from the National Board of Review, the Boston Society of Film Critics, the Washington Area Film Critics Association and the San Francisco Film Critics Circle; the Best Director award for Julian Schnabel from the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and the Boston Society of Film Critics; the Best Cinematography award for Janusz Kaminiski from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the Boston Society of Film Critics; the Sloan Award at the 2007 Hamptons Film Festival; the Audience Award at the 2007 AFI Film Festival; the Grand Prize Best of Fest at the 2007 Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival and the Gateway Film Critic's Award for Best Film of the Festival at the 2007 St. Louis Film Festival.

Amy Ryan received a nomination for Best Performance by a Supporting Actress for her harrowing portrayal of a missing child's mother in Ben Affleck's "Gone Baby Gone." In addition to this nod, Ryan has received numerous Best Supporting Actress awards including: the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Washington Area Film Critics Association, the Boston Society of Film Critics and the San Francisco Film Critics Circle.

"There Will Be Blood," a Miramax co-production with Paramount Vantage, was honored with a nomination for Best Motion Picture (Drama) and Best Performance by an Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis. Lewis was previously nominated for four Golden Globe Awards and received an Academy Award(R) for his performance in "My Left Foot."

*Both "No Country For Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" are co- productions with Paramount Vantage.

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Source: Miramax Films

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