The Coen Brothers, also known as Joel Daniel Coen as well as Ethan Jesse Coen, are award-winning American filmmakers. Their movies include a wide range of genres and techniques, that they usually spoof or mock. Raising Arizona (1987), Miller’s Crossing (1990), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), No Country for Old Men (2007), Burn After Reading (2008), A Serious Man (2009), True Grit (2010), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), as well as the Ballad of Buster Scruggs are some of their most well-known works.
The brothers write, direct, as well as produce their movies together, while Joel earned sole credit for filmmaking and Ethan for production until About the Ladykillers. Underneath the moniker Roderick Jaynes, they frequently switch primary billing for their scripts while sharing editing credits.
They were nominated for 13 Academy Awards as a group and one prize each individually, with Fargo winning Best Original Screenplay and No Country for Old Men winning Best Picture, Best Director, as well as Best Adapted Screenplay. For Barton Fink, the pair also won the Palme d’Or.
The Coen brothers have written several movies that they did not direct, such as the biographical war drama Unbroken (2014), the historical legal thriller Bridge of Spies (2015), and lesser-known, financially failed comedies like Crimewave, The Naked Man (1998), and Gambit (2012). Ethan is indeed a short storey, theatrical, as well as poetry writer.
They’re noted for their distinct stylistic signatures, which include genre hybridity. The BBC’s 2016 vote of the finest film pictures since 2000 included No Country for Old Men, A Serious Man, as well as Inside Llewyn Davis.