As “No Country for Old Men” makes its seemingly inevitable way toward a Best Picture Oscar, and Javier Bardem and the Coen Brothers continue to receive considerable press attention, it’s easy to forget the crafts artists who contributed to the film and its eight nomination total.

“No Country” did, after all, receive four nominations in the “tech” categories. One of those was for “Roderick Jaynes” in the film editing field. Roderick is widely known as being a pseudonym for the Coens and could result in one of four wins for the brothers come Oscar night. The great cinematographer Roger Deakins, meanwhile, finds one of his two nominations this year for his work here. It marks his fourth nod for a Coen collaboration.

The other two crafts nominations came for Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing. The sound work in this film was, in my opinion, phenomenal. The tension, suspense and even character creation (note the sound of a train whenever Bardem’s character appears) amounted to the creation of a particular mood throughout the film. The work has been a considerable favorite in the sound community, and now it has the opportunity to take things one step further: Oscar glory.