
Joel Coen
Biography
Joel Daniel Coen (born November 29, 1954) is an American filmmaker, working with his brother, Ethan Coen, together known as the Coen brothers(/ˈkoʊən/). Their films span many genres and styles, which they frequently subvert or parody. Among their most acclaimed works are Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), No Country for Old Men (2007), A Serious Man (2009), True Grit (2010) and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). The brothers generally write, direct and produce their films jointly. However, due to regulations, Joel received sole directing credit while Ethan received sole production credit until The Ladykillers (2004). From then on, they would be credited as directors and producers and shared editing credits under the alias Roderick Jaynes. The duo started directing separately in the 2020s, resulting in Joel's The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021), Ethan's Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind (2022) and Drive-Away Dolls (2024). Together, they have been nominated for 13 Academy Awards and one individual nomination. They share Best Original Screenplay for Fargo and Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for No Country for Old Men. They won the Palme d'Or for Barton Fink at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. The Coens have written films for other directors, including Sam Raimi's Crimewave (1985), Angelina Jolie's World War II biopic Unbroken (2014) and Steven Spielberg's Cold War drama Bridge of Spies (2015). They produced Terry Zwigoff's Bad Santa (2003) and John Turturro's Romance and Cigarettes (2005). Ethan is also a writer of short stories, theatre and poetry. They are known for their distinctive stylistic trademarks, including genre hybridity. No Country for Old Men, A Serious Man and Inside Llewyn Davis was included in the BBC's 2016 poll of the greatest motion pictures since 2000. In 1998, the American Film Institute (AFI) ranked Fargo among the 100 greatest American movies. Richard Corliss wrote of the Coens: "Dexterously flipping and reheating old movie genres like so many pancakes, they serve them fresh, not with syrup but with a coating of comic arsenic." Description above from the Wikipedia article Coen brothers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Personal Info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1954-11-29
Place of Birth
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Cast
Diary of a Country Sheriff
20088.0 / 10
Minnesota Nice
20036.8 / 10
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
20227.6 / 10
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
20146.7 / 10
The Way of Folk
20160.0 / 10
Making " The Man Who Wasn't There"
20020.0 / 10
Inside Look: Down from the Mountain
20000.0 / 10
A Look Inside 'Intolerable Cruelty
20040.0 / 10
The First Hundred Feet, the Last Hundred Feet
20150.0 / 10
Shooting 'Blood Simple'
20160.0 / 10
Blood Simple: A Conversation with Dave Eggers
20160.0 / 10
Stephen King's World of Horror
19898.0 / 10
Darkman
19906.4 / 10
Spies Like Us
19856.2 / 10
The Coen Brothers
20007.5 / 10
A Special Day
20126.0 / 10
Crimewave
19855.5 / 10
Down from the Mountain
20017.6 / 10
The Making of 'The Big Lebowski'
19987.3 / 10
The Making of 'No Country for Old Men'
20080.0 / 10
Crew
The Big Lebowski
19987.8 / 10
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
20007.3 / 10
Fargo
19967.9 / 10
Barton Fink
19917.5 / 10
Miller's Crossing
19907.5 / 10
Raising Arizona
19877.1 / 10
The Man Who Wasn't There
20017.5 / 10
The Ladykillers
20046.1 / 10
Burn After Reading
20086.7 / 10
Crimewave
19855.5 / 10
Blood Simple
19847.2 / 10
No Country for Old Men
20077.9 / 10
The Hudsucker Proxy
19947.1 / 10
Intolerable Cruelty
20035.9 / 10
A Serious Man
20096.7 / 10
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
20094.9 / 10
True Grit
20107.3 / 10
Gambit
20125.5 / 10
Inside Llewyn Davis
20137.2 / 10
The Tragedy of Macbeth
20216.9 / 10
Unbroken
20147.4 / 10
Hail, Caesar!
20165.9 / 10
Bridge of Spies
20157.2 / 10
Eight
19985.5 / 10
Paris Je T'aime
20066.8 / 10
To Each His Own Cinema
20076.5 / 10
Romance & Cigarettes
20056.0 / 10
Down from the Mountain
20017.6 / 10
Suburbicon
20175.9 / 10
The Jesus Rolls
20194.5 / 10
The Way of Folk
20160.0 / 10
Scarface
TBA0.0 / 10
Eye of God
19975.8 / 10
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
20187.1 / 10
The Evil Dead
19817.3 / 10
Bad Santa
20036.5 / 10
Soundings
19800.0 / 10
World Cinema
20070.0 / 10
The Grey Zone
20016.6 / 10
Jack of Spades
TBA0.0 / 10