HOLLYWOOD -- Joel and Ethan Coen won the best director prize at the Oscars here Sunday, scooping the honor for their gritty crime thriller "No Country for Old Men."
The Coens became the first co-directors to take the prize since Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, who won Oscars for the 1961 musical "West Side Story."
It is only the third time that two people have been jointly nominated for the directing honor. Warren Beatty and Buck Henry received joint nods for 1978 film "Heaven Can Wait" but lost out.
