HOLLYWOOD, Feb 24, 2008 (AFP) - Film-making brothers Joel and Ethan Coen won the second Oscar of their careers here Sunday after scooping the best adapted screenplay award for "No Country for Old Men."

The Coens are bidding to win a record four individual Oscars Sunday for their film, an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel of the same name about a drug deal gone wrong and its violent aftermath.

It was the second Oscar of the evening for "No Country for Old Men", which is nominated in eight categories. The film's Spanish star Javier Bardem took the best supporting actor Oscar earlier.