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 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.

Films

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
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 other's 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
2014–present	Fargo	Various	TV series based on the original film

Solo work

Joel

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Editor	Notes
2021	The Tragedy of Macbeth	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes[d]	Based on Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Ethan

Film

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
TBA	Honey Don't!	Yes	Yes	Yes	Co-written with Tricia Cooke[4]

Theater

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

Literature

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

See also

• Coen brothers' unrealized projects
• The Jesus Rolls (2019) – A remake of Going Places written and directed by John Turturro as a spinoff of the Coen Brothers The Big Lebowski.

Notes

1. Ethan uncredited as director until The Ladykillers
2. Joel uncredited as producer until The Ladykillers
3. Both credited as Roderick Jaynes
4. Credited as Reginald Jaynes

References

1. Austerlitz, Saul (December 19, 2010). "Joel and Ethan Coen: A study in subversion". Boston Globe. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
2. Taylor, Drew. "Terry Zwigoff Talks Battling Over 'Bad Santa,' His Preferred Director's Cut & Much More In Candid Interview". IndieWire. Retrieved February 27, 2016.
3. "Ethan Coen Speaks on Reasons for Hiatus from Filmmaking & Return with Cannes Doc 'Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind'". May 21, 2022.
4. Grobar, Matt (January 24, 2024). "Margaret Qualley To Reteam With Ethan Coen On 'Honey Don't!'; Aubrey Plaza & Chris Evans Also Set For Focus Features Comedy". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on January 24, 2024. Retrieved January 25, 2024.

External links

• Coen brothers filmography at IMDb