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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
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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]
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Joel •
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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://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]
"The Hudsucker Proxy" [1994]
http://www.amazon.com/Hudsucker-Proxy-Ethan-Coen/dp/0571171907/
"Fargo" [1996]
http://www.amazon.com/Fargo-Faber-Reel-Classics-S/dp/0571202446/
http://www.amazon.com/Coen-Brothers-Fargo-Cambridge-Handbooks/dp/0521005019/
"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" [2007]
listed #1 on TIME Top Ten Best Movies of The Year (12/2007)
"Burn After Reading" [2008]
"Suburbicon" [DUE 2009]
Written & co-produced by Joel & Ethan Coen; directed by George Clooney;
latest info from IMDb
"Hail Caesar" [DUE 2009? on hold?]
Written & co-produced by Joel & Ethan Coen;
latest info from IMDb
"Gambit" [announced for Dec 2009 release]
Written by Joel & Ethan Coen;
latest info from IMDb
Books 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 "Destiny"; "The Old Country"; "Cosa Minapolidan"; "Hector Berlioz, Private Investigator"; "Have You Ever Been To Electric Ladyland"; "A Morty Story"; "A Fever In the Blood"; "The Boys"; "Johnnie Ga-Botz"; "I Killed Phil Shapiro"; "It Is An Ancient Mariner"; "Gates of Eden"; "The Old Boys"; & "Red Wing" Delta 8x5¼ pb [11/99] for $13.95 Wm. Morrow 9x6 hardcover [11/98] out of print/many used |
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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