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"The movie people let us play in the corner of the sandbox and leave us alone. "We've never considered our stuff either homage or spoof. Those are things other people call it,
We're happy here." — Ethan Coen
and it's always puzzled me that they do." — Joel Coen
Coen Brothers entry at Wikipedia
Coen Brothers credits at Internet Movie Database: Joel • Ethan
![won shared Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for "Fargo" [1996]](images/oscar_sm.gif)
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The Coen Brothers won four Academy Awards an Oscar® for "Fargo" [1996] {Best Original Screenplay}, and three Oscars® for "No Country for Old Men" [2007] {Best Picture, Best Director & Best Script Adaptation} — out of 8 Oscar® nominations [1997-2008] |
They have also won
Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival [1985]
3 Independent Spirit Awards [1986 & 1997]
4 awards & 4 nominations at the Cannes Film Festival [1991-2007]
BAFTA's David Lean Award for Directing [1996]
2 nominations for César Awards [1997 & 2002]
2 W.G.A. Awards [1997 & 2008]
David di Donatello Award [2002]
B.A.F.T.A. Award in 2007, plus 8 nominations [1997-2008]
D.G.A. Award [2008]
U.S.C. Scripter Award [2008]
Motion Picture Producer of The Year Award [2008]
listed among Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People [May 2008]
Links
browse Coen Brothers (Joel) on DVD at Amazon
Coen Brothers posters category at AllPosters.com
books by the Coen Brothers
Coen Brothers entry at Wikipedia
Coen Brothers credits at Internet Movie Database: Joel • Ethan
PT's Coen Brothers fansite [est. 1999]
Louisville, KY Lebowski Festival July 2003
BJ's Coenesque fansite
Movies By the Coen Brothers
Coen Brothers family credits at Internet Movie Database:
Joel Coen • Joel's wife actress Frances McDormand
Ethan Coen • Ethan's wife film editor Tricia Cooke
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"Coen Brothers Movie Collection" [2007] M.G.M. color DVD box set [11/2007] 5 disks for $39.99 includes "Blood Simple" [1984]; "Raising Arizona" [1987]; "Miller's Crossing" [1990]; "Barton Fink" [1991]; and the Oscar-winning "Fargo" [1996] |
"Blood Simple" [Circle Films Jan 1985]
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A Texas saloonkeeper hires a sleazy detective to spy on his cheating wife, then to kill her and her lover. But the detective has other plans, and the misunderstandings and deceit and double- & triple-crosses build to a bloody climax.
Co-written & co-directed by Joel & Ethan Coen; starring John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh, Samm-Art Williams & Deborah Neumann
Universal widescreen color Director's Cut DVD [9/2001] for $10.99 Universal color VHS [1/95] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb "Blood Simple: The Screenplay" [1989] St. Martin's Griffin 8¼x5½ pb [3/89] for $10.95 |
http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Simple-Screenplay-Martins-Original/dp/0312021682/
"Crimewave" [Columbia 1985, USA April 1986]
Co-written by Joel & Ethan Coen; co-written & directed by Sam Raimi;
full credits from IMDb
"Raising Arizona" [1987]
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0093822/fullcredits
http://www.amazon.com/Raising-Arizona-Martins-Original-Screenplay/dp/0312022700/
"Miller's Crossing" [Fox Sept 1990]
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The anti-hero works for an Irish mob boss in the 1930s; when he is thrown out for sleeping with the boss's girlfriend, he joins the rival gang.
Directed by Joel Coen; co-written by Joel & Ethan Coen, based on the 1929 novel "Red Harvest" by Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961]; starring Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro & Marcia Gay Harden; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (10/2005)
Fox widescreen DVD [5/2003] for $14.99 Fox color VHS [1/93] for $9.98 Varese soundtrack CD [10/90] for $14.99 full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 |
"Shooting Miller's Crossing: A Conversation with Barry Sonnenfeld" [2003 video release]
"Barton Fink" [1991]
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0101410/fullcredits
"The Hudsucker Proxy" [1994]
http://www.amazon.com/Hudsucker-Proxy-Ethan-Coen/dp/0571171907/
"Fargo" [1996]
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/fullcredits
http://www.amazon.com/Fargo-Faber-Reel-Classics-S/dp/0571202446/
http://www.amazon.com/Coen-Brothers-Fargo-Cambridge-Handbooks/dp/0521005019/
http://www.amazon.com/Fargo-Blu-ray-Larry-Brandenburg/dp/B001U6YI8I/
"The Big Lebowski" [1998]
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Lebowski-Ethan-Coen/dp/0571193358/
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Lebowski-Making-Coen-Brothers/dp/0393317501/
"The Making of The Big Lebowski" [1998 video release]
http://www.amazon.com/Im-Lebowski-Youre-Life-What/dp/1596912464/
http://members.aol.com/WPRob/lebowskibook.html
"Down From The Mountain" [indep Dec 2000]
Executive produced by Joel & Ethan Coen and T-Bone Burnett;
full credits from IMDb
"Inside Look: Down From The Mountain" [2000 TV]
"O Brother, Where Art Thou?" [2000]
http://www.amazon.com/Brother-Where-Thou-Faber-Screenplays/dp/0571205186/
"The Man Who Wasn't There" [2001]
http://www.amazon.com/Barber-man-who-wasnt-there/dp/2866423070/
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Wasnt-There/dp/0571212506/
"Making The Man Who Wasn't There" [2002 video release]
"Intolerable Cruelty" [2003]
http://www.amazon.com/Intolerable-Cruelty-Ethan-Coen/dp/B000H2N3QY/
"A Look Inside Intolerable Cruelty" [2004 video release]
"Bad Santa" [Dimension Films Nov 2003]
Executive produced by Joel & Ethan Coen; directed by Terry Zwigoff;
full credits from IMDb
"The Ladykillers" [2004]
http://www.amazon.com/Ladykillers-Ethan-Coen/dp/0571225977/
"Romance & Cigarettes" [United Artists 2005, USA Sept 2007]
Executive produced by Joel & Ethan Coen; written & directed by John Turturro;
full credits from IMDb
"Tuileries" segment of "Paris, je t'aime" [2006]
"No Country For Old Men"
[Miramax / Paramount Vantage Oct 2007]
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Filmed in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area. A down-on-his-luck Texan finds the money left after a drug-deal shootout in the desert, and a psychopathic killer sets out to get the money back.
Co-produced, co-written, co-directed & co-edited by Joel & Ethan Coen; based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy; starring Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Tess Harper, Barry Corbin & Gene Jones; listed #1 on TIME Top Ten Best Movies of The Year (12/2007); won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Script Adap- tation, Best Supporting Actor {Bardem}; Oscar noms for Best Cinemato- graphy, Best Editing, Best Sound & Best Sound Editing; won DGA Award, WGA Award, PGA Award, 3 BAFTA Awards, 2 SAG Awards, Italy's David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Film & USC's Scripter Award Disney Video widescreen color on Blu-Ray [3/2008] for $19.95 Miramax widescreen color DVD [3/2008] for $15.99 40"x27" poster from Amazon for $19.99 full credits from IMDb • Buena Vista official movie site |
 | "No Country For Old Men" [2005 novel] by Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize For Fiction Vintage Intl. movie tie-in 8x5 pb [10/2007] for $11.20 Vintage 8x5 pb [7/2006] for $12.35 Knopf 8x5¾ hardcover [7/2005] for $17.79 |
"Burn After Reading"
[Working Title/Focus Features Sept 2008]
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The memoirs of an unscrupulous former C.I.A. agent stored on a computer disk fall into the hands of two goofballs who attempt to sell the contents.
Co-produced, co-written, co-directed & co-edited by Joel & Ethan Coen; starring George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton & Richard Jenkins
video/DVD not yet available full credits from IMDb official movie site 27"x41" red poster from Amazon for $19.99 |
"A Serious Man" 
[Working Title/Focus Features DUE Oct 2009]
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Co-produced, written & directed by Joel & Ethan Coen video/DVD not yet available; latest info from IMDb |
"Hail Caesar" [Touchstone DUE 2009? on hold?]
Written & directed by Joel & Ethan Coen; no longer listed on IMDb
"Gambit" [announced for 2011 release]
Written by Joel & Ethan Coen;
latest info from IMDb
"Suburbicon" [announced for 2012 release]
Written & co-produced by Joel & Ethan Coen; directed by George Clooney;
latest info from IMDb
news reports in March 2009 say that the Coen Brothers
are starting work on a remake of "True Grit" [1969]
which starred John Wayne, Glen Campbell & Kim Darby
tentative casting so far has Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper
& newcomer Hailee Steinfeld starring (3/2010)
Other Works by the Coen Brothers
http://www.amazon.com/Ethan-Coen-Joel-Collected-Screenplays/dp/0571210961/
http://www.amazon.com/Coen-Brothers-Interviews-Conversations-Filmmakers/dp/1578068894/
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"Gates of Eden" [14 stories Nov 1998] by Ethan Coen
contains "A Fever In the Blood"; "A Morty Story"; "The Boys"; "Cosa Minapolidan"; "Destiny"; "Gates of Eden"; "Have You Ever Been To Electric Ladyland"; "Hector Berlioz, Private Investigator"; "I Killed Phil Shapiro"; "It Is An Ancient Mariner"; "Johnnie Ga-Botz"; "The Old Boys"; "The Old Country"; & "Red Wing" Delta 8x5¼ pb [11/99] for $13.95 Wm. Morrow 9x6 hardcover [11/98] out of print/many used |
 | "Offices" stageplay [2009] by Ethan Coen
Three one-act plays, performed off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York City's Chelsea District A.T.C.'s play page (performed April-June, 2009] |
"Almost An Evening" stageplay [2008] by Ethan Coen
Three one-act plays, performed at Atlantic Theater Company in New York City
http://www.amazon.com/Almost-Evening-Ethan-Coen/dp/030746041X/
Works About the Coen Brothers
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"Joel & Ethan Coen: Blood Siblings" [2000] Edited by Paul A. Woods Plexus Publng 9x6¾ pb [1/2004] for $19.95 Plexus Publng 9x6½ pb [5/2000] for $16.95 |
"J&EC" book by R. Barton Palmer 0252071859/
http://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Grim-Films-Ethan-Joel/dp/0810858509/
http://www.amazon.com/Joel-Ethan-Coen-Siblings-Ultrascreen/dp/0859653390/
http://www.amazon.com/Joel-Ethan-Coen-Peter-Korte/dp/0879109637/
http://www.amazon.com/Films-Joel-Ethan-Coen/dp/0786409738/
http://www.amazon.com/Joel-Ethan-Coen-Pocket-Essential/dp/1904048390/
http://www.amazon.com/Coen-Brothers-Ronald-Bergan/dp/1560252545/
http://www.amazon.com/Coen-Brothers-Story-American-Filmmakers/dp/1550224247/
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