Coens win Oscars

By Jewish Review

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Brothers Ethan and Joel Coen  won three Oscars Feb. 24 for best picture, directing and adapted screenplay for their contemporary western, “No Country for Old Men.”

Israel’s nominee in the foreign language category, “Beaufort,” about an episode during Israel’s occupation of Lebanon, lost to the Austrian Holocaust drama “The Counterfeiters.” The Coen brothers are now producing a film version of Michael Chabon’s novel “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union.”