Biography
Joel Coen was honored by the Cannes International Film Festival in 2001, as Best Director for The Man Who Wasn't There, and in 1991, as Best Director for Barton Fink. He was honored as Best Director by the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Board of Review, and the BAFTA Awards for 1996's Fargo; and also won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Fargo, which he co-wrote with his brother Ethan.
The screenplay for O Brother, Where Art Thou?,also co-written with Ethan, was nominated for a BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Other films that he has directed and co-written are Intolerable Cruelty; The Big Lebowski; The Hudsucker Proxy; Miller's Crossing; Raising Arizona;and Blood Simple.
He co-directed and co-wrote the 2004 comedy The Ladykillers with Ethan. Joel & Ethan Coen's 2007 adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men brought them the Directors Guild of America, BAFTA, and Academy Awards; the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay; Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay from the New York Film Critics Circle; and Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay from the Oscars and the National Board of Review. The film's cast was voted the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, and Javier Bardem won the Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, among other accolades.
Joel & Ethan Coen's film, Burn After Reading, was nominated for the BAFTA Award and the WGA Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Screenwriter
Movies | |
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2026 |
Scarface |
2021 |
The Tragedy of Macbeth |
2018 |
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs |
2017 |
Suburbicon |
2016 |
Hail, Caesar! |
2015 |
Bridge of Spies |
2014 |
Unbroken |
2013 |
Inside Llewyn Davis |
2012 |
Gambit |
2010 |
True Grit |
2009 |
A Serious Man |
A Simple Noodle Story - original screenplay |
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2008 |
Burn After Reading |
2007 |
No Country for Old Men |
2006 |
Paris, I Love You |
2004 |
Ladykillers |
2003 |
Intolérable cruauté |
2001 |
The Man Who Wasn't There |
2000 |
O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
1998 |
The Big Lebowski |
1996 |
Fargo |
1994 |
The Hudsucker Proxy |
1991 |
Barton Fink |
1990 |
Miller's Crossing |
1987 |
Arizona Baby |
1985 |
Crimewave |
1984 |
Blood Simple |
Short | |
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2007 |
World Cinema |
Director
Movies | |
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2021 |
The Tragedy of Macbeth |
2018 |
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs |
2016 |
Hail, Caesar! |
2013 |
Inside Llewyn Davis |
2010 |
True Grit |
2009 |
A Serious Man |
2008 |
Burn After Reading |
2007 |
No Country for Old Men |
To Each His Own Cinema |
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2006 |
Paris, I Love You |
2004 |
Ladykillers |
2003 |
Intolérable cruauté |
2001 |
The Man Who Wasn't There |
2000 |
O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
1998 |
The Big Lebowski |
1996 |
Fargo |
1994 |
The Hudsucker Proxy |
1991 |
Barton Fink |
1990 |
Miller's Crossing |
1987 |
Arizona Baby |
1984 |
Blood Simple |
Short | |
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2007 |
World Cinema |
Editor
Movies | |
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2018 |
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs |
2016 |
Hail, Caesar! |
2013 |
Inside Llewyn Davis |
2010 |
True Grit |
2009 |
A Serious Man |
2008 |
Burn After Reading |
2007 |
No Country for Old Men |
2004 |
Ladykillers |
2003 |
Intolérable cruauté |
2001 |
The Man Who Wasn't There |
2000 |
O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
1998 |
The Big Lebowski |
1996 |
Fargo |
1991 |
Barton Fink |
1984 |
Blood Simple |
Producer
Movies | |
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2021 |
The Tragedy of Macbeth |
2018 |
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs |
2016 |
Hail, Caesar! |
2013 |
Inside Llewyn Davis |
2010 |
True Grit |
2008 |
Burn After Reading |
2007 |
No Country for Old Men |
2004 |
Ladykillers |
2003 |
Intolérable cruauté |
2001 |
The Man Who Wasn't There |
2000 |
O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
1998 |
The Big Lebowski |
1996 |
Fargo |
1994 |
The Hudsucker Proxy |
1991 |
Barton Fink |
1990 |
Miller's Crossing |
1987 |
Arizona Baby |
1984 |
Blood Simple |
Actor
Movies | |
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2000 |
Sans limite |
1985 |
Crimewave |
Spies Like Us |
Documentaries | |
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2022 |
The Directors (series) - a.f. |
Coen Brothers - a.f. (S07E02) |
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2013 |
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis (TV movie) |
2009 |
Michel Ciment, the Art of Sharing Movies |
2003 |
Minnesota Nice |
2000 |
Down from the Mountain |
Inside Look: Down from the Mountain (TV movie) |
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The Coen Brothers (TV movie) |
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1998 |
The Making of 'The Big Lebowski' |
1995 |
American Cinema (series) |
Guest
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