List of awards and nominations received by Coen brothers

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This is the list of awards and nominations received by Coen brothers (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen).

Coen brothers American filmmakers

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. Their most acclaimed works include Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), No Country for Old Men (2007), True Grit (2010), and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013).

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Awards

Academy Awards

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen have each been nominated for a total of fourteen Academy Awards (twice under their alias “Roderick Jaynes”) and have won four, including two for screenwriting (Best Original Screenplay for Fargo and Best Adapted Screenplay for No Country for Old Men ), one for Best Director (No Country for Old Men), and one for Best Picture (No Country for Old Men). Twelve of their nominations were joint, but each received an individual nomination for Fargo (Joel for Best Director and Ethan for Best Picture) – thus the brothers have fifteen combined nominations.

The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay. In 2002, the name of the award was changed from Writing to Writing .

<i>Fargo</i> (film) 1996 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

Fargo is a 1996 black comedy-crime film written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Frances McDormand stars as Marge Gunderson, a pregnant Minnesota police chief investigating roadside homicides that ensue after a desperate car salesman hires two criminals to kidnap his wife in order to extort a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law.

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source. All sequels are automatically considered adaptations by this standard.

They are two of only eight filmmakers with three Oscars for the same film. The others are James L. Brooks for Terms of Endearment (1983), James Cameron for Titanic (1997), Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather Part II (1974), Alejandro G. Iñárritu for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), and Billy Wilder for The Apartment (1960).

James L. Brooks American director, producer and screenwriter

James Lawrence Brooks is an American director, producer and screenwriter. While growing up in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brooks endured a fractured family life and passed the time by reading and writing. After dropping out of New York University, he got a job as an usher at CBS, going on to write for the CBS News broadcasts. He moved to Los Angeles in 1965 to work on David L. Wolper's documentaries. After being laid off he met producer Allan Burns who secured him a job as a writer on the series My Mother the Car.

<i>Terms of Endearment</i> 1983 drama film directed by James L. Brooks

Terms of Endearment is a 1983 American comedy-drama film adapted from Larry McMurtry's 1975 novel, directed, written, and produced by James L. Brooks, and starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, and John Lithgow. The film covers 30 years of the relationship between Aurora Greenway (MacLaine) and her daughter Emma (Winger).

James Cameron Canadian film director

James Francis Cameron is a Canadian filmmaker, environmentalist, explorer, and philanthropist who lives in the United States. After working in special effects, he found major success after directing and writing the science fiction action film The Terminator (1984). He then became a popular Hollywood director and was hired to write and direct Aliens (1986); three years later he followed up with The Abyss (1989). He found further critical acclaim for his use of special effects in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). After his film True Lies (1994), Cameron took on his biggest film at the time, Titanic (1997), which earned him Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Film Editing.

Best Picture

YearNominated WorkResult
1997 Fargo (Ethan)Nominated
2008 No Country For Old Men Won
2010 A Serious Man Nominated
2011 True Grit Nominated

Best Director

YearNominated WorkResult
1997Fargo (Joel)Nominated
2008No Country For Old MenWon
2011True GritNominated

Best Original Screenplay

YearNominated WorkResult
1997FargoWon
2010A Serious ManNominated
2016 Bridge of Spies Nominated

Best Adapted Screenplay

YearNominated WorkResult
2001 O Brother, Where Art Thou? Nominated
2008No Country For Old MenWon
2011True GritNominated

Best Editing (as Roderick Jaynes)

YearNominated WorkResult
1997FargoNominated
2008No Country For Old MenNominated

Golden Globe Awards

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

YearNominated WorkResult
1997Fargo (Ethan)Nominated
2001O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Ethan)Nominated
2009 Burn After Reading Nominated
2014 Inside Llewyn Davis Nominated

Best Motion Picture – Drama

YearNominated WorkResult
2002 The Man Who Wasn't There Nominated
2008No Country For Old MenNominated

Best Director

YearNominated WorkResult
1997Fargo (Joel)Nominated
2008No Country For Old MenNominated

Best Screenplay

YearNominated WorkResult
1997FargoNominated
2002The Man Who Wasn't ThereNominated
2008No Country For Old MenWon

Best Original Song

YearNominated WorkResult
2014Inside Llewyn Davis (For "Please Mr. Kennedy")Nominated

BAFTA Awards

Best Film

YearNominated WorkResult
1997Fargo (Ethan)Nominated
2008No Country For Old MenNominated
2011True GritNominated

Best Direction

YearNominated WorkResult
1997Fargo (Joel)Won
2008No Country For Old MenWon
2011True GritNominated

Best Original Screenplay

YearNominated WorkResult
1997FargoNominated
2001O Brother, Where Art Thou?Nominated
2009Burn After ReadingNominated
2010A Serious ManNominated
2014Inside Llewyn DavisNominated
2016Bridge of SpiesNominated

Best Adapted Screenplay

YearNominated WorkResult
2008No Country For Old MenNominated
2011True GritNominated

Best Editing (as Roderick Jaynes)

YearNominated WorkResult
1997FargoNominated
2008No Country For Old MenNominated

Primetime Emmy Awards

YearNominated WorkCategoryResult
2016Fargo Outstanding Limited Series Nominated
2017FargoNominated

Critics Choice Movie Awards

Best Picture

YearNominated WorkResult
1997Fargo (Ethan)Won
2002The Man Who Wasn't There (Ethan)Nominated
2008No Country For Old MenWon
2010A Serious ManNominated
2011True GritNominated
2014Inside Llewyn DavisNominated

Best Comedy

YearNominated WorkResult
2009Burn After ReadingNominated
2016 Hail, Caesar! Nominated

Best Director

YearNominated WorkResult
1997Fargo (Joel)Nominated
2008No Country For Old MenWon
2011True GritNominated

Best Screenplay

YearNominated WorkResult
1997FargoNominated
2002The Man Who Wasn't ThereNominated
2008No Country For Old MenNominated
2010A Serious ManNominated
2011True GritNominated
2014Inside Llewyn DavisNominated

Directors Guild of America Awards

YearNominated WorkCategoryResult
1997Fargo (Joel) Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Nominated
2008No Country For Old MenWon

Producers Guild of America Awards

YearNominated WorkCategoryResult
2008No Country For Old MenOutstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion PicturesWon
2011True GritOutstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion PicturesNominated
2015FargoOutstanding Producer of Long-Form TelevisionWon
2016FargoOutstanding Producer of Long-Form TelevisionWon
2018FargoOutstanding Producer of Long-Form TelevisionNominated

Best Original Screenplay

YearNominated WorkResult
1997FargoWon
2002The Man Who Wasn't ThereNominated
2009Burn After ReadingNominated
2010A Serious ManNominated
2016Bridge of SpiesNominated

Best Adapted Screenplay

YearNominated WorkResult
2008No Country For Old MenWon
2011True GritNominated

Independent Spirit Awards

YearNominated WorkCategoryResult
1986Blood SimpleBest Director (Joel)Won
Best ScreenplayNominated
1997FargoBest Director (Joel)Won
Best ScreenplayWon
2010A Serious ManBest DirectorNominated
Robert Altman AwardWon
2014Inside Llewyn DavisBest FeatureNominated

Saturn Awards

Best Action or Adventure Film

YearNominated WorkResult
1997FargoWon
2002The Man Who Wasn't ThereNominated
2008No Country For Old MenNominated
2011True GritNominated

Best Independent Film

YearNominated WorkResult
2014Inside Llewyn DavisNominated

Best Director

YearNominated WorkResult
1997Fargo (Joel)Nominated

Best Writing

YearNominated WorkResult
2008No Country For Old MenNominated
2014Inside Llewyn DavisNominated

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