There's a New Brunswick connection to the film that took top honours at the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday night in Hollywood.

No Country for Old Men, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem, won four Oscars — for best picture, directing and adapted screenplay (Joel and Ethan Coen), and supporting actor (Bardem).

In No Country for Old Men, Javier Bardem portrays an oddly coiffed but chilling assassin.
(Richard Foreman/Miramax Films)

Bardem's much-talked-about coiffe in the film — a variation of a long page-boy cut — was created by Moncton, N.B., hairstylist Paul LeBlanc.

In his opening monologue, awards show host Jon Stewart joked about the distinctive haircut.

"Javier Bardem, your work in No Country for Old Men, [combined] brilliantly Hannibal Lecter's murderousness with Dorothy Hamill's wedge cut," Stewart said.

LeBlanc said he never anticipated the style would attract so much attention.

"It brought a lot of attention; it wasn't really expected when we did that, but it definitely helped the character so much and it made such a statement, that everybody is talking about it," he told CBC.

LeBlanc has worked in the film industry since 1977, including creating hairstyles on such films as The Mask of Zorro, starring Antonio Banderas, and Stepmom, starring Julia Roberts.

In his acceptance speech, Bardem joked about his hairstyle.

"Thank you to the Coens for being crazy enough to think I could do that and put one of the most horrible haircuts in history over my head…."

No Country for Old Men, a thriller, was adapted from the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name.