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 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.
| Year | Title | Directors [a] | Writers | Producers [b] | Editors [c] | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Blood Simple | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1987 | Raising Arizona | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 1990 | Miller's Crossing | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 1990 | Darkman | No | No | No | No | Appeared as uncredited extras |
| 1991 | Barton Fink | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1994 | The Hudsucker Proxy | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Written with Sam Raimi |
| 1996 | Fargo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1998 | The Big Lebowski | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2000 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Based on Homer's Odyssey |
| 2001 | The Man Who Wasn't There | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2003 | Intolerable Cruelty | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2004 | The Ladykillers | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Based on the 1955 film The Ladykillers |
| 2006 | Paris, je t'aime | Yes | Yes | No | No | Segment "Tuileries" |
| 2007 | Chacun son cinéma | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Segment "World Cinema" |
| No Country for Old Men | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Based on the novel No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy | |
| 2008 | Burn After Reading | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2009 | A Serious Man | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2010 | True Grit | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Based on the novel True Grit by Charles Portis |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2016 | Hail, Caesar! | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2018 | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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 [2] |
| 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 Doob Chris Hegedus D. A. Pennebaker | Documentary about the musical artists that performed 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–present | Fargo | Various | TV series based on the original film |
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Editor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [d] | Based on Macbeth by William Shakespeare |
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | The Naked Man | No | Yes | No | Co-written with J. Todd Anderson |
| 2022 | Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind [3] | Yes | No | No | Documentary |
| 2024 | Drive-Away Dolls | Yes | Yes | Yes | Co-written with Tricia Cooke |
| 2025 | Honey Don't! | Yes | Yes | Yes | Co-written with Tricia Cooke [4] |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Almost an Evening | one-act play anthology |
| 2011 | Talking Cure | one-act play from Relatively Speaking |
| 2013 | Women or Nothing | one-act play anthology |
| 2019 | A Play Is a Poem | one-act play anthology |
| Year | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Gates of Eden | short story collection |
| 2001 | The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way | poems and limericks collection |
| 2012 | The Day the World Ends | poetry collection |