Joel Coen

About the Author

Joel Coen made eight critically acclaimed feature films. The recipient of numerous awards, he received an Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1997 for Fargo. (Bowker Author Biography)

Includes the names: Joel Coen, Joel Coen, Coen Joel dir., Director: Joel Coen, Joel Coen - Director, directed by Joel Coen

Disambiguation Notice:

Joel Coen is just one of the Coen Brothers. Please do not combine this entry for him with the entry for both of them, or with his brother's entry. See "Who Should/Shouldn't Get Combined" on the Author wiki page. Thank you.

Image credit: Joel (on the right) and Ethan Coen at the Cannes film festival, photograph by Georges Biard

Works by Joel Coen

Popular Recent

O Brother, Where Art Thou? [2000 film] (2000) — Director — 738 copies, 5 reviews

The Big Lebowski [1998 film] (1998) — Producer/Director/Screenwriter — 672 copies, 6 reviews

Fargo [1996 film] (1996) — Director/Screenwriter — 606 copies, 8 reviews

No Country for Old Men [2007 film] (2007) — Director/Screenwriter — 560 copies, 6 reviews

True Grit [2010 film] (2010) — Director/Screenwriter — 403 copies, 4 reviews

Burn After Reading [2008 film] (2008) — Director — 355 copies, 5 reviews

Raising Arizona [1987 film] (1987) — Director/Screenwriter — 317 copies, 3 reviews

Bridge of Spies [2015 film] (2015) — Screenwriter — 227 copies, 7 reviews

Intolerable Cruelty [2003 film] (2003) — Director — 222 copies, 5 reviews

Miller's Crossing [1990 film] (1990) — Director/Screenwriter — 219 copies, 3 reviews

A Serious Man [2009 film] (2009) — Director — 176 copies, 7 reviews

Blood Simple [1984 film] (1984) — Director/Screenwriter — 164 copies, 5 reviews

Barton Fink [1991 film] (1991) — Director — 158 copies, 2 reviews

Hail, Caesar! [2016 film] (2016) — Director — 152 copies, 2 reviews

The Man Who Wasn't There [2001 film] (2001) — Director — 148 copies, 4 reviews

Paris, je t'aime [2006 film] (2006) — Director — 147 copies, 4 reviews

Inside Llewyn Davis [2014 film] (2014) 144 copies, 4 reviews

Fargo: Screenplay (1996) 135 copies

The Ladykillers [2004 film] (2004) — Director/Screenwriter — 114 copies, 3 reviews

The Hudsucker Proxy [1994 film] (1994) — Director/Screenwriter — 107 copies, 1 review

The Big Lebowski: Screenplay (1998) 96 copies, 3 reviews

Barton Fink / Miller's Crossing: Screenplays (1991) 84 copies

Blood Simple: Screenplay (1989) 80 copies

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen: Collected Screenplays 1: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink (2002) — Author — 62 copies

Raising Arizona: An Original Screenplay by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (1988) 51 copies, 1 review

The Hudsucker Proxy: Screenplay (1994) 48 copies

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Faber and Faber Screenplays) (2000) 48 copies

Suburbicon [2017 film] (2017) — Writer — 36 copies

Gambit [2012 film] (2012) — Writer — 34 copies, 1 review

The Coen Brothers: Interviews (2006) 27 copies, 2 reviews

Down From the Mountain [2000 film] (2000) 19 copies, 1 review

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs {screenplay} (2018) 18 copies, 1 review

The Coen Brothers Collection: The Big Lebowski / The Hudsucker Proxy / Barton Fink / Blood Simple — Director — 17 copies

Inside Llewyn Davis: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2014) — Producer — 16 copies, 1 review

True Grit [1969 film] / True Grit [2010 film] (2017) — Director — 12 copies, 1 review

The Coen Brothers Collection: Blood Simple / Fargo / Miller's Crossing / Raising Arizona (2014) — Director — 12 copies

4 Movie Marathon: Romantic Comedy Collection (About a Boy / Intolerable Cruelty / The Wedding Date / Prime) (2012) — Director — 11 copies

The Coen Brothers Collection: A Serious Man / The Big Lebowski / Barton Fink / Burn After Reading / Intolerable Cruelty (2011) 10 copies

The Big Lebowski (1998) 8 copies

The Coen Brothers Movie Collection (Fargo / Miller's Crossing / Barton Fink / Raising Arizona / Blood Simple) (2008) 8 copies

The Legend of Zorro / Intolerable Cruelty (2005) — Director — 7 copies

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs [2018 film] (2018) — Director — 6 copies, 1 review

Raising Arizona/Fargo (2007) — Director — 6 copies

Inside Llewyn Davis: The Screenplay (2013) 5 copies

Blood Simple / Raising Arizona: Screenplays (1996) 4 copies

Fargo / The Full Monty / Raising Arizona — Director — 4 copies

The Tragedy of Macbeth [2021 film] (2021) 4 copies, 1 review

True Grit [and] No Country for Old Men (Double Feature Movie) — Director — 3 copies

Romantic Comedy Pack Quadruple Feature (Along Came Polly / The Wedding Date / Intolerable Cruelty / The Story of Us) (2012) — Director — 3 copies

Blood Simple, No Country for Old Men, Fargo, True Grit — Director — 3 copies

Miller's Crossing: Screenplay 3 copies

Iconic Comedy Spotlight Collection (The Big Lebowski / American Pie / Monty Python's The Meaning of Life) (2014) — Director — 3 copies

True Grit [and] Hondo (Double Feature Video) (2013) — Director — 3 copies

The Coen Brothers Collection: Fargo / Raising Arizona / Miller's Crossing 2 copies

Fargo (1996) : Collector's Edition [4K UHD + Blu-ray] [DVD] 1 copy

Ave Cesare! 1 copy, 1 review

O Brother, Where Art Thou / The Big Lebowski 1 copy

Film Forum Under Construction 2018 - Photographs by Jan Staller 1 copy

No Country for Old Men/Gone Baby Gone ( Double Feature ) 1 copy

Capone [1975] / Miller's Crossing [1990] / Road To Perdition [2002] [DVD] — Director — 1 copy

Burn After Reading / O Brother / The Big Lebowski 1 copy

Blood Simple, Burn After Reading, Raising Arizona, True Grit — Director — 1 copy

Leatherheads / Intolerable Cruelty — Director — 1 copy

The Coen Brothers: 8 Movie Collection — Director — 1 copy

The Big Lebowski: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack — Producer — 1 copy

Burn After Reading / O Brother Where Art Thou 1 copy

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Associated Works

Unbroken [2014 film] (2014) — screenplay — 261 copies, 4 reviews

Bad Santa [2003 film] (2003) — Producer — 151 copies, 1 review

Playboy Magazine, November 2001 (2001) — Interview — 6 copies

The Best Picture Collection: The Hurt Locker / Crash / No Country for Old Men — Director — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Coen, Joel
Legal name: Coen, Joel David
Birthdate: 1954-11-29
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA
Places of residence: New York, New York, USA
Education: Bard College (BA|1976)
New York University (BA|1979)
University of Texas
Occupations: film director
film producer
screenwriter
film editor
Relationships: McDormand, Frances (spouse)
Coen, Ethan (brother)
Coen, Rena Neumann (mother)
Coen, Edward (father)
Disambiguation notice: Joel Coen is just one of the Coen Brothers. Please do not combine this entry for him with the entry for both of them, or with his brother's entry. See "Who Should/Shouldn't Get Combined" on the Author wiki page. Thank you.

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Reviews

O brother, where art thou? by Coen Brothers

"I'll Fly Away" by the Kassoy Sisters (twins), one of which was Irene, our music teacher in the 4th grade at Upton Elementary School In Beverly, MA. The Kassoys did not know that their music would be in the film.
I contacted Irene years ago and received a gracious reply. The Kassoys were from New York City. Irene (I believe) was married to Tony Saletan, a folk musician who had a local public television station music sing-a-long program (WGBH) in Boston. The elementary school kids gathered in a basement area of the school to watch the weekly program. You never know the impact teachers have on their students. I've been a life-long fan of traditional folk music. Thank you Irene and Ellen K.… (more)

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Paris, je t'aime by Olivier Assayas

C+ (Okay).

18 short films about love in Paris. A few are good, one or two are bad, most are just filling time in a very Film Student Exercise way. It's kind of impressive that any manage to be good, with only a few minutes to work with.

(May 2024)

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