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

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O Brother, Where Art Thou? [2000 film] (2000) — Director — 708 copies

The Big Lebowski [1998 film] (1998) — Producer/Director/Screenwriter — 636 copies

Fargo [1996 film] (1996) — Director/Screenwriter — 585 copies

No Country for Old Men [2007 film] (2007) — Director/Screenwriter — 527 copies

True Grit [2010 film] (2010) — Director/Screenwriter — 379 copies

Burn After Reading [2008 film] (2008) — Director/Screenwriter — 345 copies

Raising Arizona [1987 film] (1987) — Director/Screenwriter — 308 copies

Unbroken [2014 film] (2014) — screenplay — 245 copies

Bridge of Spies [2015 film] (2015) — Screenwriter — 217 copies

Intolerable Cruelty [2003 film] (2003) — Director — 213 copies

Miller's Crossing [1990 film] (1990) — Director/Screenwriter — 210 copies

A Serious Man [2009 film] (2009) — Director — 169 copies

Blood Simple [1984 film] (1984) — Director/Screenwriter — 156 copies

Barton Fink [1991 film] (1991) — Director — 152 copies

Paris, je t'aime [2006 film] (2006) — Director — 145 copies

The Man Who Wasn't There [2001 film] (2001) — Director — 143 copies

Hail, Caesar! [2016 film] (2016) 142 copies

Inside Llewyn Davis [2014 film] (2014) 141 copies

Fargo: Screenplay (1996) 134 copies

The Ladykillers [2004 film] (2004) — Director/Screenwriter — 105 copies

The Hudsucker Proxy [1994 film] (1994) — Director/Screenwriter — 104 copies

The Big Lebowski: Screenplay (1998) 96 copies

Barton Fink / Miller's Crossing: Screenplays (1991) 83 copies

Blood Simple: Screenplay (1989) 78 copies

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen: Collected Screenplays 1: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink (2002) — Author — 60 copies

Raising Arizona: An Original Screenplay by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (1988) 49 copies

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

The Hudsucker Proxy: Screenplay (1994) 47 copies

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

Gambit [2012 film] (2012) — Writer — 34 copies

The Coen Brothers: Interviews (2006) 27 copies

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

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

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

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 (2010) 10 copies

2 Movie Collection: True Grit [1969 Film & 2010 Film] (2017) — Director — 8 copies

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

The Big Lebowski: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1998) 8 copies

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

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

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

Inside Llewyn Davis: The Illustrated Screenplay with Lyrics Introduction by Elijah Wald and a conversation with T Bone… (2013) 5 copies

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

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

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

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

Miller's Crossing: Screenplay 3 copies

Romantic Comedy Pack Quadruple Feature (Along Came Polly / The Wedding Date / Intolerable Cruelty / The Story of Us) (2008) — Director — 3 copies

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

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

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

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

Burn After Reading / O Brother Where Art Thou 1 copy

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

Leatherheads / Intolerable Cruelty — Director — 1 copy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Associated Works

Playboy Magazine ~ November 2001 (Angelica Bridges) (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

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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