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Joel and Ethan Coen have won the Best Screenplay Award from the National Society of Film Critics for A Serious Man.

The film, which concerns a Midwestern Jewish university professor who is having a crisis of faith, stars Tony Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg and Broadway veteran Richard Kind.

The Coens' many other films include No Country for Old Men, Fargo, Barton Fink, Burn After Reading and The Big Lebowski. Ethan is also the author of two evenings of short plays, Almost an Evening and Offices, both of which were produced by the Atlantic Theater Company.

The National Society of Film Critics named The Hurt Locker as Best Picture, and also gave awards to the film's director, Kathryn Bigelow, and star Jeremy Renner.