Coen brothers
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"[The] “evil man is of little interest to either Cormac McCarthy, the author of the novel, No Country for Old Men, or to Joel and Ethan Coen, the makers of the movie. What is of interest to McCarthy and the Coens is rather what happens when a good, but flawed, man encounters this force of nature in human guise. In this sense, No Country for Old Men recapitulates the patters of ancient Greek tragedy."--Richard Gilmore cited in The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers (2008) by Mark T. Conard |
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Joel David Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957), known informally as the Coen brothers, are American film directors, screenwriters, producers, and editors. Their films include Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), No Country for Old Men (2007), Burn After Reading (2008), A Serious Man (2009), True Grit (2010), and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013).
The brothers write, direct, and produce their films jointly, although until The Ladykillers (2004), Joel received sole credit for directing and Ethan for producing. They often alternate top billing for their screenplays while sharing film credits for editor under the alias Roderick Jaynes. They have been nominated for twelve Academy Awards together, plus one individual nomination for both, winning Best Original Screenplay for Fargo and Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for No Country for Old Men.
Filmography
This is the filmography of the American filmmaker duo the Coen brothers.
Films
Year | Film | Writer credit | Director credit | Academy Award | Golden Globe | BAFTA | |||
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1984 | Blood Simple | Joel & Ethan | Joel | ||||||
1986 | Crimewave | Joel, Ethan, & Sam Raimi | Sam Raimi | ||||||
1987 | Raising Arizona | Joel & Ethan | Joel | ||||||
1990 | Miller's Crossing | ||||||||
1991 | Barton Fink | 3 | 1 | ||||||
1994 | The Hudsucker Proxy | Joel, Ethan, & Sam Raimi | |||||||
1996 | Fargo | Joel & Ethan | 7 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | ||
1998 | The Big Lebowski | ||||||||
1998 | The Naked Man | J. Todd Anderson & Ethan | J. Todd Anderson | ||||||
2000 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Joel & Ethan | Joel | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||
2001 | The Man Who Wasn't There | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
2003 | Intolerable Cruelty | Robert Ramsay, Matthew Stone Joel & Ethan | |||||||
2004 | The Ladykillers | Joel & Ethan | Joel & Ethan | ||||||
2006 | Paris, je t'aime: "Tuileries" segment | ||||||||
2007 | Chacun son cinéma: "World Cinema" segment | ||||||||
2007 | No Country for Old Men | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 3 | ||
2008 | Burn After Reading | 2 | 3 | ||||||
2009 | A Serious Man | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
2010 | True Grit | 10 | 8 | 1 | |||||
2012 | Gambit | Michael Hoffman | |||||||
2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Joel & Ethan | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||||
2014 | Unbroken | Joel & Ethan, Richard LaGravenese, William Nicholson | Angelina Jolie | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
2015 | Bridge of Spies | Joel & Ethan, Matt Charman | Steven Spielberg | 6 | 1 | 9 | |||
2016 | Hail, Caesar! | Joel & Ethan | Joel & Ethan | ||||||
Total | 33 | 6 | 20 | 3 | 36 | 7 |
Other works
- Gates of Eden (1998) – A collection of short stories written by Ethan Coen.
- The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way (2001) – A collection of poems and limericks written by Ethan Coen.
- Bad Santa (2003) – Comedy film starring Billy Bob Thornton, executive produced and (uncredited) rewrite by the Coen brothers.
- Romance & Cigarettes (2006) – Film produced by the Coen brothers and written and directed by John Turturro.
- Almost an Evening (2008) – A series of three one-act off-Broadway plays written by Ethan Coen.
- Fargo (2014) – TV series based on the film, executive produced by Joel and Ethan.