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. The brothers write, direct and produce their films jointly, and have edited almost all 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 (1991) and were nominated for Fargo.

Films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Editor	Notes
1984	Blood Simple	Joel	Yes	Ethan	Yes
1987	Raising Arizona	Joel	Yes	Ethan	No
1990	Miller's Crossing	Joel	Yes	Ethan	No
1991	Barton Fink	Joel	Yes	Ethan	Yes
1994	The Hudsucker Proxy	Joel	Yes	Ethan	No	Written with Sam Raimi
1996	Fargo	Joel	Yes	Ethan	Yes
1998	The Big Lebowski	Joel	Yes	Ethan	Yes
2000	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Joel	Yes	Ethan	Yes	Based on Homer's Odyssey
2001	The Man Who Wasn't There	Joel	Yes	Ethan	Yes
2003	Intolerable Cruelty	Joel	Yes	Ethan	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	No	No	No	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 others' films.

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1985	Crimewave	Sam Raimi
2003	Bad Santa	Terry Zwigoff	Uncredited rewrites
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 who performed the songs in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2003	Bad Santa	Terry Zwigoff
2005	Romance & Cigarettes	John Turturro
2014	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	Based on Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Ethan

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Editor	Notes
2022	Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind	Yes	No	No	No	Documentary

As writer

Year	Title	Director
1998	The Naked Man	J. Todd Anderson

Theater

As writer

Year	Title	Notes
2008	Almost an Evening	one-act play anthology
2011	"Talking Cure"	one-act play from Relatively Speaking
2013	Women or Nothing
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

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