Coen brothers#Production Company

Joel Daniel Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957) were born and raised in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis.{{sfn|King|2014|p=41}} Their mother, Rena (née Neumann; 1925–2001), was an art historian at St. Cloud State University,{{cite news| url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PD&s_site=twincities&p_multi=SP&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF6EC4AB2DCD543&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D|title=Rena Neumann Coen, 76, Was Art Historian, Filmmakers' Mother |newspaper=St. Paul Pioneer Press|page=B6 local | date=October 23, 2001| url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181005194913/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PD&s_site=twincities&p_multi=SP&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF6EC4AB2DCD543&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D |archive-date = October 5, 2018 |df = mdy-all }} and their father, Edward Coen (1919–2012), was a professor of economics at the University of Minnesota.{{cite book |first=Stanford E. |last=Lehmberg |title=The University of Minnesota, 1945–2000 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |year=2001 |isbn= 9780816632558|page=[https://archive.org/details/universityofminn00stan/page/27 27] |url=https://archive.org/details/universityofminn00stan |url-access=registration }} The brothers have an older sister, Deborah, who is a psychiatrist in Israel.{{cite news|url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/hail-caesar/coen-brothers-interview/ |title = The Coen Brothers: 'We get you invested, then shake the floor' |website = The Daily Telegraph |date = February 26, 2016 |access-date = January 19, 2020|last = Collin |first = Robbie}}{{cite news|url = https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/joel-ethan-coen-the-brothers-from-another-planet-100526/ |title = Joel & Ethan Coen: The Brothers From Another Planet |magazine = Rolling Stone |date = May 21, 1987 |access-date = January 19, 2020|last = Handelman |first = David}}

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Both sides of the Coen family were Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews. Their paternal grandfather, Victor Coen, was a barrister in the Inns of Court in London before retiring to Hove with their grandmother.{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/jun/15/features.coenbrothers |title = My father lived in Croydon |website = The Guardian |date = June 15, 2004|access-date = January 19, 2020|last = Bradshaw |first = Peter}} Edward Coen was an American citizen born in the United States, but grew up in Croydon, London and studied at the London School of Economics. Afterwards he moved to the United States, where he met the Coens' mother, and served in the United States Army during World War II.

The Coens developed an early interest in cinema through television. They grew up watching Italian films (ranging from the works of Federico Fellini to the Sons of Hercules films) aired on a Minneapolis station, the Tarzan films, and comedies (Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope and Doris Day).{{sfn|Levine|Fagan|2000|p=5}}

In the mid-1960s, Joel saved money from mowing lawns to buy a Vivitar Super 8 camera.{{sfn|King|2014|p=42}} Together, the brothers remade movies they saw on television, with their neighborhood friend Mark Zimering ("Zeimers") as the star.{{cite web|last1= Brodesser-Akner|first1=Claude|title=From Their Childhood Friend, How to Better Know a Coen Brother|url=https://www.vulture.com/2011/02/from_their_childhood_friend_ho.html|website=New York |date=February 23, 2011 |access-date=September 4, 2019}} Cornel Wilde's The Naked Prey (1965) became their Zeimers in Zambezi, which featured Ethan as a native with a spear. Lassie Come Home (1943) was reinterpreted as their Ed... A Dog, with Ethan playing the mother role in his sister's tutu. They also made original films like Henry Kissinger, Man on the Go, Lumberjacks of the North and The Banana Film.{{sfn|Levine|Fagan|2000|p=6}}

Joel and Ethan graduated from St. Louis Park High School{{cite web| url = https://screenrant.com/the-coen-brothers-directors-filmmaking-duo-facts-trivia/| title = The Coen Brothers: 11 Things You Never Knew About The Filmmaking Duo – Screen Rant| website = Screen Rant| date = October 8, 2020}} in 1973 and 1976, respectively, and from Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.{{cite news |url = http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gscDeHQbyybPqIAvt4N36wVwbkNw |title = Coen brothers prove two heads are better than one |access-date = October 5, 2008 |date = February 24, 2008 |agency = Agence France-Presse |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090326132411/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gscDeHQbyybPqIAvt4N36wVwbkNw |archive-date = March 26, 2009 |df = mdy-all }}

After Simon's Rock, Joel spent four years in the undergraduate film program at New York University, where he made a 30-minute thesis film, Soundings.{{sfn|Levine|Fagan|2000|p=7-8}} In 1979, he briefly enrolled in the graduate film program at the University of Texas at Austin, following a woman he had married who was in the graduate linguistics program. The marriage soon ended in divorce and Joel left UT Austin after nine months.{{sfn|Levine|Fagan|2000|p=8}}

Ethan went on to Princeton University and earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy in 1979. His senior thesis was a 41-page essay, "Two Views of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy", which was supervised by Raymond Geuss.{{cite web |url = http://dataspace.princeton.edu/jspui/handle/88435/dsp01h128nf78s |title = Page for Ethan Coen's senior thesis |year = 1979 |access-date = April 18, 2015 |last1 = Coen |first1 = Ethan Jesse |archive-date = April 19, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150419031814/http://dataspace.princeton.edu/jspui/handle/88435/dsp01h128nf78s |url-status = dead }}

After graduating from New York University, Joel worked as a production assistant on a variety of industrial films and music videos. He developed a talent for film editing and met Sam Raimi while assisting Edna Ruth Paul in editing Raimi's first feature film, The Evil Dead (1981).{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=Bruce|title=If Chins Could Kill|edition=First|publisher=LA Weekly Books|location=New York, NY|date=2002|page=129|isbn=0312291450}}

The duo made their debut with Blood Simple (1984). Set in Texas, it tells the tale of a bar owner (Dan Hedaya) who hires a detective (M. Emmet Walsh) to kill his wife and her lover (Frances McDormand and John Getz, respectively). It contains elements that point to their future direction: distinctive homages to genre movies (in this case noir and horror), plot twists layered over a simple story, snappy dialogue and dark humor. Janet Maslin wrote: "The camera work by Barry Sonnenfeld is especially dazzling. So is the fact that Mr. Coen, unlike many people who have directed great-looking film noir efforts, knows better than to let handsomeness become the film's entire raison d'être. In addition to its stylishness, Blood Simple has the kind of purposefulness and coherence that show Mr. Coen to be headed for bigger, even better, things."{{cite news| author=Janet Maslin| work=The New York Times| title=Blood Simple: A Black-Comic Romp| date=October 12, 1984| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/12/movies/blood-simple-a-black-comic-romp.html}} Joel's direction was recognized at the Sundance and Independent Spirit awards.{{cite web|title=Blood Simple – Cast, Crew, Directors and Awards|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/6128/Blood-Simple/details|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003201703/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/6128/Blood-Simple/details|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 3, 2015|work=The New York Times|date=2015|access-date=January 15, 2016}} It was the first film shot by Sonnenfeld, who collaborated with the Coens on their two subsequent films and went on to be a director. It marked the first of many collaborations between the Coens and composer Carter Burwell. It was also the screen debut of McDormand, who went on to feature in many of the Coens' films (and marry Joel).{{cite news| author=Christopher Orr| date=September 8, 2014| title=30 Years of Coens: Blood Simple| work=The Atlantic| url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/09/30-years-of-coens-revisiting-blood-simple/379743/}}

Their next project was Crimewave (Raimi, 1985), written by the Coens and Raimi. Joel and Raimi also made cameos in Spies Like Us (1985).

The brothers wanted to follow their debut with something fast-paced and funny. Raising Arizona (1987) follows an unlikely married couple: ex-convict H.I. (Nicolas Cage) and police officer Ed (Holly Hunter), who long for a baby but are unable to conceive. When furniture tycoon Nathan Arizona (Trey Wilson) appears on television with his newly born quintuplets and jokes that they "are more than we can handle", H.I. steals one of the quintuplets to bring up as their own. Pauline Kael noted its "cornpone-surreal quality" and wrote that the Coens "are going with their strengths. They're making a contraption, and they're good at it because they know how to make the camera behave mechanically, which is just right here—it mirrors the mechanics of farce ... The Sunsets look marvellously ultra-vivid; the paint doesn't seem to be dry—it's like opening day at a miniature-golf course."{{cite magazine| author=Pauline Kael| title=Manypeeplia Upsidownia| date=April 12, 1987| magazine=The New Yorker| url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/04/20/manypeeplia-upsidownia}} Geoff Andrew wrote: "the lives and times of Hi, Ed and friends are painted in splendidly seedy colours, turning Arizona into a mythical haven for a memorable gaggle of no-hopers, halfwits and has-beens. Starting from a point of delirious excess, the film leaps into dark and virtually uncharted territory to soar like a comet."{{cite news| author=Geoff Andrew| work=Time Out| title=Raising Arizona 1987, directed by Joel Coen| date=September 10, 2012| url= https://www.timeout.com/movies/raising-arizona}} The film featured McDormand, William Forsythe, Sam McMurray, Randall "Tex" Cobb and marked the first of many collaborations between the Coens and John Goodman.{{cite news| author=Christopher Orr| date=September 9, 2014| title=30 Years of Coens: Raising Arizona| work=The Atlantic| url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/09/30-years-of-the-coens-raising-arizona/379815/}}

Miller's Crossing (1990) is a gangster film inspired by Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest (1929) and The Glass Key (1931). It stars Gabriel Byrne as Irish mobster Tom Reagan and features Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden, Steve Buscemi, Jon Polito and John Turturro. The film was released almost simultaneously with Goodfellas and was not a commercial success, but received positive reviews. Christopher Orr calls it "a distillation of all the tropes and themes and moods of the classic gangster film." It was the Coens' first collaboration with production designer Dennis Gassner.{{cite news| author=Christopher Orr| title=30 Years of Coens: Miller's Crossing| date=September 10, 2014| work=The Atlantic|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/09/30-years-of-coens-millers-crossing/379895/}}

They followed it with Barton Fink (1991); set in 1941, it follows a New York playwright, the eponymous Fink (Turturro), who moves to Los Angeles to write a B-picture for a venal movie mogul (Michael Lerner). Fink is modeled on playwright Clifford Odets, and the character W.P. Mayhew (John Mahoney) is based on William Faulkner. Barton Fink was a critical success, earning Oscar nominations and winning Best Director, Best Actor and {{Lang|fr|Palme d'Or|italic=no}} at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/79/year/1991.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Barton Fink |access-date=August 9, 2009|publisher=festival-cannes.com}} It was their first film with cinematographer Roger Deakins, a key collaborator for the next 25 years.{{cite news| author=Christopher Orr| date=September 11, 2014| work=The Atlantic| title=30 Years of Coens: Barton Fink| url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/09/30-years-of-coens-barton-fink/379990/}}

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) is an homage to the screwball comedies of Frank Capra and Howard Hawks. Co-written with Raimi, the film follows a mailroom clerk (Tim Robbins) who is promoted to president of the Hudsucker corporation by a cynical director (Paul Newman) in a scheme to devalue the company's stock; a fast-talking newspaperwoman (Jennifer Jason Leigh) tries to scoop the story. Critics praised the production design but criticized the tone. It was a box office bomb ($30 million budget, $3 million gross in the US).{{cite news| author=Christopher Orr| title=30 Years of Coens: The Hudsucker Proxy| date=September 12, 2014| work=The Atlantic| url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/09/30-years-of-coens-the-hudsucker-proxy/380068/}}

The brothers bounced back with the "homespun murder story" Fargo (1996), set in their home state of Minnesota. In it, car salesman Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy), who has serious financial problems, has his wife kidnapped so that his wealthy father-in-law (Harve Presnell) will pay the ransom, which he plans to split with the kidnappers (Buscemi and Peter Stormare). Complications ensue, and local cop Marge Gunderson (McDormand) starts to investigate. Produced on a small budget of $7 million, Fargo was a critical and commercial success, with particular praise for its dialogue and McDormand's performance. The film received several awards, including a BAFTA award and Cannes award for direction, and two Oscars: a Best Original Screenplay and a Best Actress Oscar for McDormand.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4685/year/1996.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Fargo |access-date=January 14, 2016| publisher= festival-cannes.com}}{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/05/14/specials/ondaatje-oscar.html |title='English Patient' Dominates Oscars With Nine, Including Best Picture |access-date=January 14, 2016|work=The New York Times}} Roger Ebert wrote that "it rotates its story through satire, comedy, suspense, and violence, until it emerges as one of the best films I've ever seen. To watch it is to experience steadily mounting delight, as you realize the filmmakers have taken enormous risks, gotten away with them, and have made a movie that is completely original, and as familiar as an old shoe – or a rubber-soled hunting boot from Land's End, more likely."{{cite news| author=Roger Ebert| title=Fargo| date=March 8, 1996| work=Chicago Sun Times| url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fargo-1996}}

The Big Lebowski (1998) is a crime comedy about Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges), a Los Angeles slacker who is involved in a kidnapping case after being mistaken for a millionaire of the same name (David Huddleston.){{cite magazine| url = https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/big-lebowski| title = The Big Lebowski{{!}}The New Yorker| magazine = The New Yorker}} It features Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lebowski's flunky, Goodman and Buscemi as The Dude's bowling buddies and Julianne Moore as his "special lady friend". It was influenced by Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep (1939) and Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye.{{cite news| author=Christopher Orr| title=30 Years of Coens: The Big Lebowski| date=September 16, 2014| work=The Atlantic| url= https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/09/30-years-of-coens-the-big-lebowski/380220/}} It has become a cult classic.{{cite news| url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-SEB-19463| title = "The Big Lebowski" + Shakespeare = "Two Gentlemen of Lebowski" – WSJ|newspaper = Wall Street Journal|date = January 8, 2010|last1 = Kung|first1 = Michelle}} An annual festival, Lebowski Fest, began in 2002, and many adhere to the philosophy of "Dudeism".{{cite web|last=Ehrlich|first=Richard|title=The man who founded a religion based on 'The Big Lebowski'|url=http://www.cnngo.com/bangkok/life/doctrine-chiang-mais-church-latter-day-dude-explained-206793|publisher=CNN|access-date=January 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405065606/http://www.cnngo.com/bangkok/life/doctrine-chiang-mais-church-latter-day-dude-explained-206793|archive-date=April 5, 2012|url-status=dead}} Entertainment Weekly ranked it 8th on their Funniest Movies of the Past 25 Years list in 2008.{{cite magazine|title=The Comedy 25: The Funniest Movies of the Past 25 Years|url=https://www.ew.com/gallery/comedy-25-funniest-movies-past-25-years|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=January 14, 2016}} It was the first collaboration between the Coens and T Bone Burnett, credited as "Music Archivist".

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The Coen brothers' next film, O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), was another critical and commercial success. The title was borrowed from the Preston Sturges film Sullivan's Travels (1941), whose lead character, movie director John Sullivan, had planned to make a film with that title.{{cite magazine|author= Brody, Richard|magazine=The New Yorker|date = June 17, 2014|access-date = September 29, 2021|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/movie-of-the-week-sullivans-travels|title=Movie of the Week: "Sullivan's Travels"}} Based loosely on Homer's Odyssey (complete with a Cyclops, sirens, et al.), the story is set in Mississippi in the 1930s and follows a trio of escaped convicts who, after absconding from a chain gang, journey home to recover bank-heist loot the leader has buried—but they have no clear perception of where they are going. The film highlighted the comic abilities of George Clooney as the oddball lead character Ulysses Everett McGill, and of Tim Blake Nelson and John Turturro, his sidekicks. The film's bluegrass and old-time soundtrack, offbeat humor and digitally desaturated cinematography made it a critical and commercial hit.{{Cite web |url =https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/o_brother_where_art_thou |title=O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) |date=December 22, 2000 |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=January 14, 2016}}{{cite web | title=O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | publisher=Box Office Mojo | url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=obrotherwhereartthou.htm | access-date=January 14, 2016}} It was the first feature film to use all-digital color grading.{{Cite web|url=https://gizmodo.com/o-brother-this-was-the-first-movie-to-use-all-digital-1595466651|title=O Brother, This Was the First Movie to Use All-Digital Color Grading|website=Gizmodo|date=June 25, 2014 }} The film's soundtrack CD was also successful, spawning a concert and concert/documentary DVD, Down from the Mountain.

The Coens next produced another noirish thriller, The Man Who Wasn't There (2001).

The Coens directed the 2003 film Intolerable Cruelty, starring George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones, a throwback to the romantic comedies of the 1940s. It focuses on hotshot divorce lawyer Miles Massey and a beautiful divorcée whom Massey managed to prevent from receiving any money in her divorce. She vows to get even with him while, at the same time, he becomes smitten with her. Intolerable Cruelty received generally positive reviews, although it is considered one of the duo's weaker films.{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/intolerable_cruelty/|title=Intolerable Cruelty| publisher= Rotten Tomatoes| date=October 10, 2003}} Also that year, they executive produced and did an uncredited rewrite of the Christmas black comedy Bad Santa, which garnered positive reviews.{{cite web|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/terry-zwigoff-talks-battling-over-bad-santa-turning-down-juno-and-the-beaver-and-much-more-in-candid-interview-20121220|title=Terry Zwigoff Talks Battling Over 'Bad Santa,' His Preferred Director's Cut & Much More In Candid Interview|publisher=Indiewire|access-date=January 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151229170039/http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/terry-zwigoff-talks-battling-over-bad-santa-turning-down-juno-and-the-beaver-and-much-more-in-candid-interview-20121220|archive-date=December 29, 2015|url-status=dead}}

In 2004, the Coens made The Ladykillers, a remake of the British classic by Ealing Studios.{{cite web|website=The Daily Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/1462296/Disney-remakes-The-Ladykillers.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/1462296/Disney-remakes-The-Ladykillers.html |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Disney remakes The Lady Killers|date=May 19, 2004 }}{{cbignore}} A professor, played by Tom Hanks, assembles a team to rob a casino. They rent a room in an elderly woman's home to plan the heist. When the woman discovers the plot, the gang decides to murder her to ensure her silence. The Coens received some of the most lukewarm reviews of their careers in response to this film.{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ladykillers/|title=The Ladykillers Movie Reviews, Pictures|date=March 26, 2004 |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=September 27, 2010}}{{cite web| url = http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2021/15-movies-that-had-the-biggest-influences-on-the-films-of-the-coen-brothers/2/| title = 15 Movies That Had The Biggest Influences On The Films of The Coen Brothers – Page 2 – Taste of Cinema| date = July 7, 2021}}

They directed two short films for two separate anthology films—Paris, je t'aime (Tuileries, 2006) starring Steve Buscemi,{{cite web|last1=Springer|first1=Mike|title=Tuileries: A Short, Slightly Twisted Film by Joel and Ethan Coen|url=http://www.openculture.com/2011/12/tuileries_coen_brothers.html|publisher=Open Culture|access-date=January 15, 2016}} and To Each His Own Cinema (World Cinema, 2007) starring Josh Brolin.{{cite web|last1=Fischer|first1=Russ|title=Big Directors Small Films: The Coen Brothers Short Film 'World Cinema'|date=August 11, 2009|url=https://www.slashfilm.com/big-directors-small-films-the-coen-brothers-short-film-world-cinema/|publisher=/Film|access-date=January 15, 2016}} Both films received highly positive reviews.{{cite web |url = https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/chacun-son-cinema-to-each-his-cinema/ |title = To Each His Own Cinema (2007) |access-date =January 15, 2016 |publisher = Rotten Tomatoes }}{{cite web |url = https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/paris_je_taime/ |title = Paris, I Love You (2007) |date = May 4, 2007 |access-date =January 15, 2016 |publisher = Rotten Tomatoes }}

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No Country for Old Men, released in November 2007, closely follows the 2005 novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy. Vietnam veteran Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), living near the Texas/Mexico border, stumbles upon, and decides to take, two million dollars in drug money. He must then go on the run to avoid those trying to recover the money, including sociopathic killer Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), who confounds both Llewelyn and local sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones). The plotline is a return to noir themes, but in some respects it was a departure for the Coens; with the exception of Stephen Root, none of the stable of regular actors appears in the film. No Country received nearly universal critical praise, garnering a 94% "Fresh" rating at Rotten Tomatoes.{{cite web |url = https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/no_country_for_old_men |title = No Country for Old Men (2007) |date = November 21, 2007 |access-date =October 5, 2008 |publisher = Rotten Tomatoes }} It won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, all of which were received by the Coens, as well as Best Supporting Actor received by Bardem. The Coens, as "Roderick Jaynes", were also nominated for Best Editing, but lost. It was the first time since 1961 (when Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise won for West Side Story) that two directors received the Academy Award for Best Director at the same time.{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/80th.html|title=The 80th Academy Awards (2008)|publisher=The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)|date=February 24, 2008}}

In January 2008, Ethan Coen's play Almost an Evening premiered off-broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company Stage 2, opening to mostly enthusiastic reviews. The initial run closed on February 10, 2008, but the same production was moved to a new theatre for a commercial off-Broadway run at the Bleecker Street Theater in New York City. Produced by The Atlantic Theater Company, it ran there from March 2008 through June 1, 2008.{{cite web

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Burn After Reading, a comedy starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney, was released September 12, 2008, and portrays a collision course between two gym instructors, spies and Internet dating.{{cite web| url = http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2021/15-movies-that-had-the-biggest-influences-on-the-films-of-the-coen-brothers/| title = 15 Movies That Had The Biggest Influences On The Films of The Coen Brothers – Taste of Cinema| date = July 7, 2021}} Released to positive reviews, it debuted at No. 1 in North America.{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=burnafterreading.htm|title=Burn After Reading (2008) – Weekend Box Office Results|access-date=September 26, 2008|publisher=Box Office Mojo}}

In 2009, the Coens directed a television commercial titled "Air Freshener" for the Reality Coalition.{{cite news |url = https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/26/coen-brothers-direct-new_n_170196.html |title = Coen Brothers Direct New 'Clean Coal' Ad |access-date =February 28, 2009 |work = HuffPost |first=Dave |last=Burdick |date=February 26, 2009}}{{cite web|publisher=thisisreality|url=http://action.thisisreality.org/page/s/coenbrothers|title=Coen Brothers|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228171514/http://action.thisisreality.org/page/s/coenbrothers|archive-date=February 28, 2009}}

They next directed A Serious Man, released October 2, 2009, a "gentle but dark" period comedy (set in 1967) with a low budget.{{cite web |url = http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/movies/27957494.html?page=1&c=y |title = In Twin Cities, Coen brothers shoot from heart |access-date = October 5, 2008 |author = Covert, Colin |date = September 6, 2008 |work = Star Tribune |archive-date = March 5, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160305194741/http://www.startribune.com/in-twin-cities-coen-brothers-shoot-from-heart/27957494/?c=y&page=1 |url-status = dead }} The film is based loosely on the Coens' childhoods in an academic family in the largely Jewish suburb of Saint Louis Park, Minnesota; it also drew comparisons to the Book of Job.{{cite book |last=Evans |first=K.L. |editor-last=Conard |editor-first=Mark T. |title=The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |date=2012 |pages=289–303 |chapter=How Job Begat Larry: The Present Situation in A Serious Man |isbn= 978-0813134451}}{{cite journal| journal= Journal of Religion & Film| volume= 15| number= 2| last= Tollerton| first= David| title= Job of Suburbia? A Serious Man and Viewer Perceptions of the Biblical| url= https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol15/iss2/7 |publisher= University of Nebraska | place= Omaha, Nebraska| year= 2012| page= 10}} Filming took place late in the summer of 2008, in the neighborhoods of Roseville and Bloomington, Minnesota, at Normandale Community College, and at St. Olaf College.{{cite web | last = Henke | first = David | title = Coen brothers will use St. Olaf for movie | work = Northfield News | date = August 19, 2008 | url = http://northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewStory=45735 | access-date =January 14, 2016}}{{cite web |date=October 9, 2008 |last=Gonnerman |first=David |title=St. Olaf gets 'Serious' |publisher=St. Olaf College |url=http://fusion.stolaf.edu/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsDetails&id=4469 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100808010712/http://fusion.stolaf.edu/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsDetails&id=4469 |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 8, 2010 |access-date=January 14, 2016 }} The film was nominated for the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2010 |title=The 82nd Academy Awards (2010) Nominees and Winners |date=December 4, 2015 |access-date=January 14, 2016|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)}}

True Grit (2010) is based on the 1968 novel of the same name by Charles Portis.{{cite news

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Ethan Coen wrote the one-act comedy Talking Cure, which was produced on Broadway in 2011 as part of Relatively Speaking, an anthology of three one-act plays by Coen, Elaine May, and Woody Allen.{{cite news|last1=Isherwood|first1=Charles|title=Each Family, Tortured in Its Own Way|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/theater/reviews/relatively-speaking-at-brooks-atkinson-theater-review.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/theater/reviews/relatively-speaking-at-brooks-atkinson-theater-review.html |archive-date=2022-01-03 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|website=The New York Times|date=October 21, 2011|access-date=January 14, 2016}}{{cbignore}}

In 2011, the Coen brothers won the $1 million Dan David Prize for their contribution to cinema and society.{{Cite news|date=May 16, 2011|title=Coen brothers win $1m Dan David Prize|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-13408854|access-date=November 3, 2020}}{{Cite web|date = February 23, 2011|author1=Shtull-Trauring, Asaf |author2=Anderman, Nirit |title=A serious prize / Coen brothers win Dan David award|url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.5126645|access-date=September 29, 2021|work=Haaretz|language=en}}

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) is a treatise on the 1960s folk music scene in New York City's Greenwich Village, and very loosely based on the life of Dave Van Ronk.{{cite news |first = Russ |last = Fischer |url = https://www.slashfilm.com/coen-bros-film-based-folk-musician-dave-van-ronk/#more-106431 |title = The Coen Bros. New Script is Based on the 60's NYC Folk Scene |publisher = /Film |date = June 25, 2011 |access-date =June 25, 2011}} The film stars Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake, and Carey Mulligan.{{cite magazine|last=Labrecque |first=Gabe |url=http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/10/31/justin-timberlake-llewyn-davis/ |title=Coen brothers target Justin Timberlake for 'Inside Llewyn Davis' |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=October 31, 2011 |access-date=November 5, 2011}} It won the Grand Prix at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where it was highly praised by critics.{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/59652.html |title=2013 Official Selection|date=April 18, 2013|access-date=April 18, 2013|publisher=Cannes}} They received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song for "Please Mr. Kennedy", which is heard in the film.{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2014/film/awards/2014-golden-globes-nominee-list-1200948220/|title=Golden Globes Nominations: The Full List|work=Variety|date=January 11, 2014|access-date=January 14, 2016}}

Fargo, a television series inspired by their film of the same name, premiered in April 2014 on the FX network. It is created by Noah Hawley and executive produced by the brothers.{{cite magazine|last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |url=https://deadline.com/2012/09/fx-teams-with-joel-ethan-coen-and-noah-hawley-for-series-adaptation-of-fargo-342737/ |title=FX Teams With Joel & Ethan Coen And Noah Hawley For Series Adaptation Of 'Fargo' |magazine=Deadline Hollywood |date=September 21, 2012 |access-date=January 15, 2016}}

The Coens also contributed to the screenplay for Unbroken, along with Richard LaGravenese and William Nicholson. The film is directed by Angelina Jolie and based on Laura Hillenbrand's non-fiction book, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010) which itself was based on the life of Louis Zamperini. It was released on December 25, 2014, to average reviews.{{cite news| url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/coen-brothers-rewrite-angelina-jolies-424417 | work=The Hollywood Reporter | first=Borys | last=Kit | title=Coen Brothers to Rewrite Angelina Jolie's 'Unbroken'}}

The Coens co-wrote, with playwright Matt Charman, the screenplay for the dramatic historical thriller Bridge of Spies, about the 1960 U-2 Incident. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and released on October 4, 2015, to critical acclaim.{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bridge_of_spies/|title=Bridge of Spies |date=October 16, 2015 |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=January 14, 2016}} They were nominated for the Best Original Screenplay at the 88th Academy Awards.{{cite web|last1=Rothman|first1=Michael|last2=McKenzie|first2=Joi-Marie|title=Oscars 2016: Complete List of Nominees|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/oscars-2016-complete-list-nominees/story?id=36271826|work=ABC News|access-date=January 14, 2016}}

The Coens directed the film Hail, Caesar!, about a "fixer" in 1950s Hollywood trying to discover what happened to a cast member who vanishes during filming. It stars Coen regulars George Clooney, Josh Brolin, Frances McDormand, Scarlett Johansson and Tilda Swinton, as well as Channing Tatum, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, and Alden Ehrenreich.{{cite news|last=Kit|first=Borys|title=Jonah Hill Joining Channing Tatum, George Clooney in Coen Brothers' 'Hail, Caesar!'|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jonah-hill-joining-channing-tatum-717525|access-date=July 10, 2014|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=July 10, 2014}} The film was released on February 5, 2016.

In 2016, the Coens gave to their longtime friend and collaborator John Turturro the right to use his character of Jesus Quintana from The Big Lebowski in his own spin-off, The Jesus Rolls, which he would also write and direct. The Coens have no involvement in the production. In August 2016, the film began principal photography.{{cite news | date=August 22, 2016 | title= 'Big Lebowski' Spinoff 'Going Places': First Photo of John Turturro as Jesus Revealed| publisher=IndieWire| url=https://www.indiewire.com/2016/08/big-lebowski-spinoff-going-places-photo-john-turturro-jesus-quintana-1201719006/| access-date=August 29, 2016}}{{cite web | date=August 19, 2016 | title=WILL FERRELL AND JOHN C. REILLY REUNITE TO PLAY HOLMES AND WATSON, PLUS MORE MOVIE NEWS| publisher=Rotten Tomatoes | url=https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/will-ferrell-and-john-c-reilly-reunite-to-play-holmes-and-watson-plus-more-movie-news/| access-date=August 29, 2016}}

The Coens first wrote the script for Suburbicon in 1986. The film was eventually directed by George Clooney and began filming in October 2016. It was released by Paramount Pictures in the fall of 2017.{{cite web|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/george-clooney-back-coen-brothers/|title= George Clooney Back With Coen Brothers|access-date=October 12, 2016|date=November 22, 2005 |work=Empire }}

The Coens directed The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a Western anthology starring Tim Blake Nelson, Liam Neeson, and James Franco. It began streaming on Netflix on November 16, 2018, after a brief theatrical run.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/tvandradioblog/2017/jan/10/coen-brothers-tv-ballad-buster-scruggs-western-series|title=Coen brothers turn to TV with western series The Ballad of Buster Scruggs|date=January 10, 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|issn=0261-3077|access-date=January 11, 2017}}{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/coen-brothers-tv-series-netflix-1202520874/|title=Coen Brothers' TV Series 'Ballad of Buster Scruggs' Lands at Netflix |last= Otterson|first= Joe| date=August 9, 2017|work=Variety|access-date=August 9, 2017|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/in-contention/coen-brothers-ballad-buster-scruggs-film-venice-oscar-1202883508/|title=Surprise! The Coens' 'Ballad of Buster Scruggs' Is a Film and It's Headed for Oscar Season|last=Tapley|first=Kristopher|date=July 25, 2018|work=Variety|access-date=July 25, 2018|language=en-US}}

It was announced in March 2019 that Joel Coen would be directing an adaptation of Macbeth starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand.{{Cite web|last1=Fleming|first1=Mike Jr.|date=March 28, 2019|title=Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Joel Coen Teaming For 'Macbeth' Movie|url=https://deadline.com/2019/03/denzel-washington-frances-mcdormand-joel-coen-macbeth-movie-1202583823/}} The film, titled The Tragedy of Macbeth, was Joel's first directorial effort without his brother, who was taking a break from films to focus on theater.{{Cite web|date=September 20, 2019|title=Ethan Coen is 'giving movies a rest.' His focus for now: 'A Play Is a Poem' in L.A.|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2019-09-20/ethan-coen-play-is-poem-la|website=Los Angeles Times}} The film premiered at the 2021 New York Film Festival.{{Cite web|last=Lang|first=Brent|date=2021-07-22|title=Joel Coen's 'Tragedy of Macbeth' With Frances McDormand, Denzel Washington Will Open New York Film Festival|url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/joel-coens-tragedy-of-macbeth-frances-mcdormand-denzel-washington-new-york-film-festival-1235025533/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-24|website=Variety|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210722170214/https://variety.com/2021/film/news/joel-coens-tragedy-of-macbeth-frances-mcdormand-denzel-washington-new-york-film-festival-1235025533/ |archive-date=July 22, 2021 }} The 2022 Cannes Film Festival had a special screening of Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind, an archival documentary film directed solely by Ethan Coen and edited by his wife Tricia Cooke.{{Cite web|url=https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/jerry-lee-lewis-trouble-in-mind-cannes-review/5170365.article|title= 'Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind': Cannes Review|website=Screendaily.com}} In 2022, it was announced that Ethan Coen would be directing Drive-Away Dolls for Focus Features and Working Title from a script he co-wrote with Cooke. It would be Ethan's first narrative film without his brother. The film was released in February 2024.{{Cite web |last=Kroll |first=Justin |date=2022-04-01 |title=Ethan Coen Sets Next Feature With Focus And Working Title |url=https://deadline.com/2022/04/ethan-coen-focus-working-title-1234992302/ |access-date=2022-04-02 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}

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The Coen brothers' own film production company, Mike Zoss Productions located in New York City, has been credited on their films from O Brother, Where Art Thou? onwards.{{cite web |url=http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_f62knp |title=Mike Zoss Production Inc – New York City (NY) | Company Profile |publisher=Manta.com |access-date=August 3, 2010}} It was named after Mike Zoss Drug, an independent pharmacy in St. Louis Park since 1950 that was the brothers' beloved hangout when they were growing up in the Twin Cities. The name was also used for the pharmacy in No Country for Old Men.{{cite news| url= http://www.startribune.com/local/west/11550951.html |last= Ross| first= Jenna| title= Drugstore has role in lives, film of Coen brothers| work= Star Tribune| place= Minneapolis| date= November 9, 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403061242/http://www.startribune.com/local/west/11550951.html |archive-date= April 3, 2015 }} The Mike Zoss logo consists of a crayon drawing of a horse, standing in a field of grass with its head turned around as it looks back over its hindquarters.

Up to 2003, Joel received sole credit for directing and Ethan for producing, due to guild rules that disallowed multiple director credits to prevent dilution of the position's significance. The only exception to this rule is if the co-directors are an "established duo". Since 2004 they have been able to share the director credit and the Coen brothers have become only the third duo to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.

With four Academy Award nominations for No Country for Old Men for the duo (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing as Roderick Jaynes), the Coen brothers matched the record for the most nominations by a single nominee (counting an "established duo" as one nominee) for the same film. Orson Welles set the record in 1941 with Citizen Kane being nominated for Best Picture (though at the time, individual producers were not named as nominees), Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Original Screenplay. Warren Beatty received the same nominations, first for Heaven Can Wait in 1978 and again in 1981 with Reds. Alan Menken also then achieved the same feat when he was nominated for Best Score and triple-nominated for Best Song for Beauty and the Beast in 1991. More recently Chloé Zhao matched this record in 2021 when she was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing for Nomadland (which also starred McDormand in her third Oscar-winning role). In 2025, Sean Baker matched this record at the 97th Academy Awards with his nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing, winning all four to become the first person to win four Oscars in the same year since Walt Disney in 1953, and the first person to win four Oscars in the same night for the same film.Walsh, Savannah (2025-03-03). [https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/sean-baker-ties-walt-disneys-record-for-most-wins-in-one-night-at-oscars-2025|"Sean Baker Ties Walt Disney's Record for Most Wins in One Night at Oscars 2025"]. Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2025-03-03.Leung, Russell; Salinas, Sara; Whitten, Sarah (2025-03-02). [https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/02/oscar-awards-live-updates-complete-list-of-winners.html|"Oscars 2025: 'Anora' cleans up, Adrien Brody and Zoe Saldana make history"]. CNBC. Retrieved 2025-03-03.

Joel has been married to actress Frances McDormand since 1984. In 1995, they adopted a son, Pedro McDormand Coen, from Paraguay when he was six months old.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/movies/the-prime-of-frances-mcdormand.html|title=The Prime Of Frances McDormand|first=Karen|last=Durbin|date=March 2, 2003|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 21, 2017}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.popsugar.com/node/44636563|title=Everything We Know About Frances McDormand and Joel Coen's Son, Pedro|last=Nesa|first=Kamrun|date=March 11, 2018|website=POPSUGAR Celebrity|language=en-US|access-date=September 18, 2019}} McDormand has acted in a number of Coen Brothers films: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Man Who Wasn't There, Burn After Reading, and Hail, Caesar! For her performance in Fargo, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Ethan married film editor Tricia Cooke in 1993. They have two children: daughter Dusty and son Buster Jacob.{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-mar-28-ca-verini28-story.html|title=The United States of Coen| last=Verini| first=James| date=March 28, 2004| work=Los Angeles Times| access-date=March 15, 2012}} The two describe their relationship as "nontraditional"; Cooke is both queer and a lesbian{{cite news| url=https://www.moviemaker.com/drive-away-dolls-ethan-coen-tricia-cooke/amp/|title=Drive-Away Dolls: How Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke's Long Marriage Shaped Their Lesbian Road-Trip Movie| last=Encinias| first=Joshua|work=MovieMaker| access-date=February 21, 2024}} and Ethan as straight, and the two have separate partners.{{cite news| url=https://apnews.com/article/driveaway-dolls-ethan-coen-tricia-cooke-68858ecd870e8cec17f36d2eb7b892b1|title=Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke give sexploitation cinema a queer spin in 'Drive-Away Dolls'| last=Coyle| first=Jake| date=February 20, 2024| work=The Associated Press| access-date=February 21, 2024}}{{cite magazine| url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/11/ethan-coen-and-tricia-cookes-queer-caper|title=Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke's Queer Caper| last=Fry| first=Naomi| date=March 1, 2024| magazine=The New Yorker|url-access=subscription| access-date=February 21, 2024}} They co-wrote the film Drive-Away Dolls, which Ethan directed and Tricia edited. Ethan published Gates of Eden, a collection of short stories, in 1998.{{cite web|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/17/books/books-of-the-times-shadowy-snapshots-of-a-nightmare-dreamscape.html |title= BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Shadowy Snapshots of a Nightmare Dreamscape|last= Lehmann-Haupt| first= Christopher|date=December 17, 1998}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/20/bib/981220.rv015907.html|work=The New York Times|date=December 20, 1998| last= Lindquist| first= Mark|title=Gates of Eden}} The same year, he co-wrote the comedy The Naked Man, directed by their storyboard artist J. Todd Anderson.{{cite web|last1=Phipps|first1=Keith|title=The Naked Man|url=https://www.avclub.com/review/the-naked-man-19287|website=The A.V. Club|date=March 29, 2002 |access-date=January 15, 2016}}

Ethan Coen and family live in New York, while Joel Coen and Frances McDormand live in Marin County, California.{{cite news |first = Ian |last = Nathan |title = The Complete Coens |work=Empire |date = January 2008|page=173 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.marinij.com/2019/11/10/joel-coen-frances-mcdormand-sue-bolinas-neighbors-2/amp/|title = Joel Coen, Frances McDormand sue Marin neighbors|date = November 10, 2019}}

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• {{cite book |author1=Cheshire, Ellen |author2=Ashbrook, John|date= 2005 |title=Joel and Ethan Coen |publisher=The Pocket Essential |edition= 3rd revised |isbn=9781904048398}} (Includes all films up to The Ladykillers and some subsidiary works [Crimewave, Down from the Mountain, Bad Santa].)
• {{cite book | last= King| first= Lynnea Chapman | title=The Coen Brothers Encyclopedia | location=Lanham | publisher=Rowman & Littlefield | date=2014 | isbn=9780810885769}}
• {{cite book | last1=Levine | first1=Josh | last2=Fagan | first2=Cary | title=The Coen Brothers: The Story of Two American Filmmakers | date=2000 | publisher=ECW Press | isbn=9781550224245}}

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• {{IMDb name|1054|Joel Coen}}
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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20031119042843/http://www.coenbrothers.net/ Coenesque: The Films of the Coen Brothers]
• {{LCAuth|no2001068250|Roderick Jaynes||}}, no catalog records, and [https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2001068250/ Jaynes at WorldCat] (joint pseudonym)
• [https://lccn.loc.gov/n87871865 Ethan Coen] at LC Authorities, with 38 records, and [https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n87871865 Ethan at WorldCat]
• [https://lccn.loc.gov/n87871864 Joel Coen] at LC Authorities, with 31 records, and [https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n87871864 Joel at WorldCat]

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