List of awards and nominations received by the Coen brothers

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Joel and Ethan Coen at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015

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

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Joel Coen and Ethan Coen have received numerous accolades including four Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Directors Guild of America Award, three Critics' Choice Awards, and four Independent Spirit Awards as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards.

Together they 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.

They are two of only eleven 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), Billy Wilder for The Apartment (1960), Alfonso Cuarón for Roma, Bong Joon-ho for Parasite (Cuarón and Bong's films both won Best International Feature Film) and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).

Major associations

Academy Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1997 Best Picture (Ethan) Fargo Nominated [1]
Best Director (Joel)Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Won
Best Film Editing (as Roderick Jaynes)Nominated
2001 Best Adapted Screenplay O Brother, Where Art Thou? Nominated [2]
2008 Best Picture No Country for Old Men Won [3]
Best Director Won
Best Adapted Screenplay Won
Best Film Editing (as Roderick Jaynes)Nominated
2010 Best Picture A Serious Man Nominated [4]
Best Original Screenplay Nominated
2011 Best Picture True Grit Nominated [5]
Best Director Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated
2016 Best Original Screenplay Bridge of Spies Nominated [6]
2019 Best Adapted Screenplay The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Nominated [7]

BAFTA Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1997 Best Film (Ethan) Fargo Nominated [8]
Best Direction (Joel)Won
Best Original Screenplay Nominated
Best Editing (as Roderick Jaynes)Nominated
2001 Best Original Screenplay O Brother, Where Art Thou? Nominated [9]
2008 Best Film No Country for Old Men Nominated [10]
Best Direction Won
Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated
Best Editing (as Roderick Jaynes)Nominated
2009 Best Original Screenplay Burn After Reading Nominated [11]
2010 Best Original Screenplay A Serious Man Nominated [12]
2011 Best Film True Grit Nominated [13]
Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated
2014 Best Original Screenplay Inside Llewyn Davis Nominated [14]
2016 Bridge of Spies Nominated [15]

Emmy Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2016 Outstanding Limited Series Fargo (season 2)Nominated [16]
2017 Fargo (season 3)Nominated [17]
2024 Fargo (season 5)Nominated [18]

Golden Globe Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1997 Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Ethan)FargoNominated [19]
Best Director (Joel)Nominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
2001 Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Ethan)O Brother, Where Art Thou?Nominated [20]
2002 Best Motion Picture – Drama The Man Who Wasn't There Nominated [21]
Best Screenplay Nominated
2008 Best Motion Picture – Drama No Country for Old MenNominated [22]
Best Director Nominated
Best Screenplay Won
2009 Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Burn After Reading Nominated [23]
2014 Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Inside Llewyn Davis Nominated [24]
Best Original Song "Please Mr. Kennedy", Inside Llewyn Davis Nominated

Guild awards

Directors Guild of America Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1996 Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Fargo (Joel)Nominated
2007No Country for Old MenWon

Producers Guild of America Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2007Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion PicturesNo Country for Old MenWon
2010True GritNominated
2014Outstanding Producer of Long-Form TelevisionFargoWon
2016Won
2018Nominated

Writers Guild of America Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1996 Best Original Screenplay FargoWon
2001The Man Who Wasn't ThereNominated
2007 Best Adapted Screenplay No Country for Old MenWon
2008 Best Original Screenplay Burn After ReadingNominated
2010 Best Adapted Screenplay True GritNominated
2011 Best Original Screenplay A Serious ManNominated
2015Bridge of SpiesNominated

Miscellaneous accolades

Critics Choice Movie Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1996 Best Picture (Ethan)FargoWon
Best Director (Joel)Nominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
2001 Best Picture (Ethan)The Man Who Wasn't ThereNominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
2007 Best Picture No Country for Old MenWon
Best Director Won
Best Screenplay Nominated
2008 Best Comedy Burn After ReadingNominated
2009 Best Picture A Serious ManNominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
2010 Best Picture True GritNominated
Best Director Nominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
2013 Best Picture Inside Llewyn DavisNominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
2016 Best Comedy Hail, Caesar! Nominated

Independent Spirit Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1985Best Director (Joel)Blood SimpleWon
Best ScreenplayNominated
1996Best Director (Joel)FargoWon
Best ScreenplayWon
2009A Serious ManBest DirectorNominated
Robert Altman AwardWon
2013Inside Llewyn DavisBest FeatureNominated

Saturn Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1996 Best Director (Joel)FargoNominated
Best Action or Adventure Film Won
2001 Best Action or Adventure Film The Man Who Wasn't ThereNominated
2007 Best Action or Adventure Film No Country for Old MenNominated
Best Writing Nominated
2010 Best Action or Adventure Film True GritNominated
2013 Best Independent Film Inside Llewyn DavisNominated
Best Writing Nominated

Festival awards

Cannes Film Festival

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1991 Palme d'Or Barton FinkWon
Best Director (Joel Coen)Won
1994 Palme d'Or The Hudsucker ProxyNominated
1996 Palme d'Or FargoNominated
Best Director (Joel Coen)Won
2000 Palme d'Or O Brother, Where Art Thou?Nominated
2001 Palme d'Or The Man Who Wasn't ThereNominated
Best Director (Joel Coen)Won
2004 Palme d'Or The LadykillersNominated
2007 Palme d'Or No Country for Old MenNominated
2013 Cannes Grand Prix Inside Llewyn DavisWon

Venice Film Festival

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2018 Golden Osella for Best Screenplay The Ballad of Buster ScruggsWon

Critics associations

National Board of Review

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1996 Best Director FargoWon
2007 Best Film No Country for Old MenWon
Best Adapted Screenplay Won
2009 Best Original Screenplay A Serious ManWon
2013 Best Original Screenplay Inside Llewyn DavisWon

National Society of Film Critics

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1988 Best Screenplay Raising ArizonaNominated
2007 Best Director No Country for Old MenNominated
2009 Best Screenplay A Serious ManWon
2013 Best Film Inside Llewyn DavisWon
Best Director Won
Best Screenplay Won

New York Film Critics Circle

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2007 Best Director No Country for Old MenWon
Best Screenplay Won

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1996 Best Director FargoWon
Best Screenplay Won

London Film Critics Circle

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1996 Director of the Year FargoWon
Screenwriter of the Year Won
2000 Screenwriter of the Year O Brother, Where Art Thou?Nominated
2001The Man Who Wasn't ThereWon
2007 Director of the Year No Country for Old MenNominated
Screenwriter of the Year Nominated
2010 Director of the Year True GritNominated
Screenwriter of the Year Nominated
2013 Screenwriter of the Year Inside Llewyn DavisWon

Chicago Film Critics Association

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1991 Best Screenplay Miller's CrossingNominated
1992 Best Director Barton FinkNominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
1997 Best Director FargoWon
Best Screenplay Won
2007 Best Director No Country for Old MenWon
Best Adapted Screenplay Won
2009 Best Director A Serious ManNominated
Best Original Screenplay Nominated
2010 Best Adapted Screenplay True GritNominated
2013 Best Director Inside Llewyn DavisNominated
Best Original Screenplay Nominated
2015 Best Original Screenplay Bridge of SpiesNominated

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