Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, collectively referred to as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. Their films span many genres and styles, which they frequently subvert or parody. The brothers have jointly written, directed and produced 18 films, and have edited 15 of them under the collective pseudonym Roderick Jaynes.
The Coen brothers have been nominated for thirteen Academy Awards together, and individually for one award each, winning Best Original Screenplay for Fargo and Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for No Country for Old Men. The duo also won the Palme d'Or for Barton Fink and were nominated for Fargo.
Films Year Title Directors Writers Producers Editors Notes 1984 Blood Simple 1987 Raising Arizona 1990 Miller's Crossing 1991 Barton Fink 1994 The Hudsucker Proxy Written with Sam Raimi 1996 Fargo 1998 The Big Lebowski 2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou? Based on Homer's Odyssey 2001 The Man Who Wasn't There 2003 Intolerable Cruelty 2004 The Ladykillers Based on the 1955 film The Ladykillers 2006 Paris, je t'aime Segment "Tuileries" 2007 Chacun son cinéma Segment "World Cinema" No Country for Old Men Based on the novel No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy 2008 Burn After Reading 2009 A Serious Man 2010 True Grit Based on the novel True Grit by Charles Portis 2013 Inside Llewyn Davis 2016 Hail, Caesar! 2018 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
As screenwriters
In addition to their own films, the Coen brothers have also contributed to others' films.
Year Title Director Notes 1985 Crimewave Sam Raimi 2003 Bad Santa Terry Zwigoff Uncredited rewrites 2009 A Simple Noodle Story Zhang Yimou A comedic Mandarin-language remake of Blood Simple; they received a story credit 2012 Gambit Michael Hoffman Remake of the 1966 film of the same name 2014 Unbroken Angelina Jolie 2015 Bridge of Spies Steven Spielberg 2017 Suburbicon George Clooney
As executive producers Year Title Director Notes 2000 Down from the Mountain Nick DoobChris HegedusD. A. Pennebaker Documentary about the musical artists thatperformed the songs in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2003 Bad Santa Terry Zwigoff 2005 Romance & Cigarettes John Turturro 2013 Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis Christopher Wilcha Documentary and concert in link with the film Inside Llewyn Davis 2014–24 Fargo Various TV series based on the original film
Solo work
Joel Year Title Director Writer Producer Editor Notes 2021 The Tragedy of Macbeth Based on Macbeth by William Shakespeare 2027 Jack of Spades
Ethan Film Year Title Director Writer Producer Notes 1998 The Naked Man Co-written with J. Todd Anderson 2022 Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind Documentary 2024 Drive-Away DollsCo-written with Tricia Cooke 2025 Honey Don't!
Theater YearTitleNotes2008Almost an EveningOne-act play anthology2009Offices 2011Happy HourTalking CureOne-act play from Relatively Speaking2013Women or Nothing2019A Play Is a PoemOne-act play anthology 2025Let's Love!
Literature YearTitleType1998Gates of EdenShort story collection2001The Drunken Driver Has the Right of WayPoems and limericks collection2012The Day the World EndsPoetry collection
See also Coen brothers' unrealized projects The Jesus Rolls (2019) – A remake of Going Places written and directed by John Turturro as a spinoff of the Coen Brothers The Big Lebowski.
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