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No Country For Old Men
With eight nominations each, There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men tied for the most at the 80th Academy Awards. Because both films were shot at the same time in Marfa, Texas, they were pitted against each other at the awards presentation. On one occasion, director Paul Thomas Anderson and his crew were testing pyrotechnic special effects for an oil fire sequence in There Will Be Blood. The pyrotechnics’ smoke, on the other hand, was visible in the background of a scene from the Coen Brothers’ film No Country for Old Men. Manufacturing had to be put on hold for a day as the smoke cleared.
No Country For Old Men