Kelly Macdonald and the cast of No Country for Old Men have been nominated in the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture category at the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards! Huge congratulations to them all for this great honor! Here’s to hoping they’ll take it home… I think they will!

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
3:10 TO YUMA (Lionsgate)
AMERICAN GANGSTER (Universal Pictures)
HAIRSPRAY (New Line Cinema)
INTO THE WILD (Paramount Vantage)
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Miramax Films)

Kelly and the cast of Gosford Park won the same award back in 2002.

Unfortunately Kelly Macdonald did not receive a Golden Globes nomination for her performance in No Country for Old Men despite all of the buzz. However, the film itself received several nominations, including Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Director, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Javier Bardem) and Best Screenplay! Once again, huge congratulations to the No Country team for all of the amazing achievements and good luck on January 13, 2008!

Click here to see all of the Golden Globes nominees for 2008.

“No Country for Old Men” was the big winner in Monday’s voting for the 73rd annual New York Film Critics Circle awards, drawing the picture nod and three other prizes.

The Cormac McCarthy adaptation, which has been riding a wave of critical buzz since its Cannes preem, captured screenplay and director honors for the Coen brothers. Javier Bardem took supporting actor for his turn as the film’s diabolically existential villain.

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Big congratulations to the No Country for Old Men team, who scored three major awards at the National Board of Review, including Best Ensemble acting award.

It’s not a happy tale, but No Country for Old Men might be responsible for a lot of smiles in the next few months.

The Coen brothers’ latest effort was named Best Film on Wednesday by the National Board of Review, giving the ultraviolent yet characteristically dark-humored crime drama a leg up as it heads into the spin-driven time of year known as awards season.

Joel and Ethan Coen, who split producing, directing and writing credits on this one, also shared the award for Best Adapted Screenplay and (attention SAG Awards) the movie’s cast, which includes Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson and Kelly MacDonald, was named Best Ensemble.

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No Country For Old Men is all you could hope for in a marriage between the Coen Brothers and Texan blood poet Cormac McCarthy. A film that keeps the novel’s quiet menace intact from the moment Josh Brolin stumbles upon a drug deal gone bad and decides to take a suitcase with $2.4m in cash. The drug money is for a better life for the southern army vet and his childlike wife Carla Jean, played by Kelly Macdonald. What he doesn’t realise is that he’s just won the “You have no idea what you’ve gotten yourself into” sweepstakes, by activating an implacable killing machine, Chigurh, played by Spanish actor Javier Bardem, who slogs ahead remorselessly to bring everyone to justice.

“I thought it was quite funny,” chirps Macdonald in her tiny girlish voice. “There’s a lot of wit in Cormack’s writing, which is very similar to Joel and Ethan[Coen]’s sense of humour. I found myself laughing quite a lot.”

At 31, and from Glasgow, Scotland rather than Galveston, Texas, Macdonald acknowledges that she wasn’t an obvious casting choice for the regional idioms and vocal inflections of southern gal.

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