Coen brothers filmography
Joel 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.[1] The brothers write, direct and produce their films jointly, and have edited almost all 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 (1991) and were nominated for Fargo.
Films[]
| Year | Film | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Blood Simple | Edited with Don Wiegmann |
| 1987 | Raising Arizona | Edited by Michael R. Miller |
| 1990 | Miller's Crossing | |
| 1991 | Barton Fink | |
| 1994 | The Hudsucker Proxy | Written with Sam Raimi, edited by Thom Noble |
| 1996 | Fargo | |
| 1998 | The Big Lebowski | Edited with Tricia Cooke |
| 2000 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Based on Homer's Odyssey, edited with Tricia Cooke |
| 2001 | The Man Who Wasn't There | Edited with Tricia Cooke |
| 2003 | Intolerable Cruelty | Co-written with Robert Ramsay and Matthew Stone, story by John Romano, Robert Ramsay, and Matthew Stone |
| 2004 | The Ladykillers | Based on the 1955 film The Ladykillers |
| 2006 | Paris, je t'aime (segment: “Tuileries”) |
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| 2007 | Chacun son cinéma (segment: “World Cinema”) |
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| 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 writers[]
In addition to their own films, the Coen brothers have also contributed to others' films.
| Year | Film | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Crimewave | Sam Raimi | written by the Coen brothers and Raimi. |
| 2003 | Bad Santa | Terry Zwigoff | Comedy film starring Billy Bob Thornton, executive produced and (uncredited) rewrite by the Coen brothers.[2] |
| 2009 | A Simple Noodle Story | Zhang Yimou | A comedic Mandarin-language remake of Blood Simple. The Coen brothers have a story credit. |
| 2012 | Gambit | Michael Hoffman | remake of the 1966 film of the same name |
| 2014 | Unbroken | Angelina Jolie | written by the Coen brothers, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson, based on the book by Laura Hillenbrand. |
| 2015 | Bridge of Spies | Steven Spielberg | written by the Coen brothers and Matt Charman. |
| 2017 | Suburbicon | George Clooney | written by the Coen brothers, George Clooney, and Grant Heslov. |
As executive producers[]
| Year | Film | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Down from the Mountain | Nick Doob Chris Hegedus D. A. Pennebaker |
Documentary about the musical artists who performed the songs in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| 2003 | Bad Santa | Terry Zwigoff | Also uncredited rewrite by the Coen brothers. |
| 2005 | Romance & Cigarettes (2005) | John Turturro | written and directed by John Turturro |
| 2014 | Fargo | various | TV series based on the original film created by Noah Hawley. |
Solo work[]
Joel[]
Film[]
As director[]
| Year | Film | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | The Tragedy of Macbeth | based on Macbeth by William Shakespeare, with screenplay adaptation by Joel Coen; also co-editor with Lucian Johnston |
Ethan[]
Film[]
As writer[]
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | The Naked Man | J. Todd Anderson | co-written with J. Todd Anderson |
Theater[]
As writer[]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Almost an Evening | one-act play anthology |
| 2011 | "Talking Cure" | one-act play from Relatively Speaking |
| 2013 | Women or Nothing | |
| 2019 | A Play is A Poem | one-act play anthology |
Literature[]
| Year | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Gates of Eden | short story collection |
| 2001 | The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way | poems and limericks collection[3] |
| 2012 | The Day the World Ends | poetry collection |
See also[]
- The Jesus Rolls (2019) – A remake of Going Places written and directed by John Turturro as a spinoff of the Coens' The Big Lebowski.
References[]
- ^ Austerlitz, Saul (December 19, 2010). "Joel and Ethan Coen: A study in subversion". Boston Globe. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
- ^ Taylor, Drew. "Terry Zwigoff Talks Battling Over 'Bad Santa,' His Preferred Director's Cut & Much More In Candid Interview". IndieWire. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ^ Coen, Ethan (2001). The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way. Crown. ISBN 9780609609460.
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- Director filmographies