Ethan Coen

Ethan Jesse Coen born September 21 1957 is an American filmmaker working with his brother Joel Coen together known as the Coen brothersˈkoʊən Their films span many genres and styles which they frequently subvert or parody Among their most acclaimed works are Blood Simple 1984 Raising Arizona 1987 Millers Crossing 1990 Barton Fink 1991 Fargo 1996 The Big Lebowski 1998 O Brother Where Art Thou 2000 No Country for Old Men 2007 A Serious Man 2009 True Grit 2010 and Inside Llewyn Davis 2013 The brothers generally write direct and produce their films jointly However due to regulations Joel received sole directing credit while Ethan received sole production credit until The Ladykillers 2004 From then on they would be credited as directors and producers and shared editing credits under the alias Roderick Jaynes The duo started directing separately in the 2020s resulting in Joels The Tragedy of Macbeth 2021 Ethans Jerry Lee Lewis Trouble in Mind 2022 and DriveAway Dolls 2024 Together they have been nominated for 13 Academy Awards and one individual nomination They share Best Original Screenplay for Fargo and Best Picture Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for No Country for Old Men They won the Palme dOr for Barton Fink at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival The Coens have written films for other directors including Sam Raimis Crimewave 1985 Angelina Jolies World War II biopic Unbroken 2014 and Steven Spielbergs Cold War drama Bridge of Spies 2015 They produced Terry Zwigoffs Bad Santa 2003 and John Turturros Romance and Cigarettes 2005 Ethan is also a writer of short stories theatre and poetry They are known for their distinctive stylistic trademarks including genre hybridity No Country for Old Men A Serious Man and Inside Llewyn Davis was included in the BBCs 2016 poll of the greatest motion pictures since 2000 In 1998 the American Film Institute AFI ranked Fargo among the 100 greatest American movies Richard Corliss wrote of the Coens Dexterously flipping and reheating old movie genres like so many pancakes they serve them up fresh not with syrup but with a coating of comic arsenic Description above from the Wikipedia article Coen brothers licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia