
Joel Coen
Highest Rated: 97% Down From the Mountain (2001)
Lowest Rated: 18% Gambit (2012)
Birthday: Nov 29, 1954
Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
With producer, co-writer and brother Ethan, writer-director Joel Coen was part of the most celebrated brother act in recent entertainment memory. He helmed a series of stylish, irreverent and cinema-savvy movies that never failed to charm critics while thrilling an initially small, but loyal band of viewers. Though they evinced a powerful fascination with film genres - particularly screwball comedy and film noir - the Coen Brothers earned a great deal of respect by the Hollywood community, despite their penchant to work outside the system. These self-conscious movies-within-movies possessed humorous camera movements, richly textured landscapes, and powerhouse performers spouting beautifully artificial dialogue. While some complained that the brothers were nothing more than slick stylists, the Coens nonetheless achieved a rare feat in entertainment: making the movies they wanted to make with little-to-no outside interference.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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89% | 77% | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 2018 |
28% | 25% | Suburbicon | Screenwriter | $5.7M | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hail, Caesar! | Director | - | 2016 |
85% | 44% | Hail, Caesar! |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$30M | 2016 |
90% | 87% | Bridge of Spies | Screenwriter | $72.3M | 2015 |
51% | 70% | Unbroken | Screenwriter | $115.6M | 2014 |
92% | 74% | Inside Llewyn Davis |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$13.2M | 2013 |
18% | 23% | Gambit | Screenwriter | - | 2012 |
95% | 85% | True Grit |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$171M | 2010 |
89% | 68% | A Serious Man |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$9.2M | 2009 |
78% | 65% | Burn After Reading |
Director, Writer, Producer |
$60.3M | 2008 |
93% | 86% | No Country for Old Men |
Director, Writer, Producer |
$74.3M | 2007 |
86% | 84% | Paris, je t'aime |
Director, Writer |
$4.9M | 2006 |
52% | 56% | Romance & Cigarettes | Executive Producer | $540.1K | 2005 |
54% | 43% | The Ladykillers |
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
$39.7M | 2004 |
75% | 48% | Intolerable Cruelty |
Director, Screenwriter |
$35.1M | 2003 |
79% | 75% | Bad Santa | Executive Producer | $60.1M | 2003 |
97% | 86% | Down From the Mountain |
Himself (Character), Executive Producer |
$301.4K | 2001 |
81% | 85% | The Man Who Wasn't There |
Director, Writer |
$7.5M | 2001 |
77% | 89% | O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
Director, Writer, Film Editor |
$45.5M | 2000 |
83% | 93% | The Big Lebowski |
Director, Writer, Film Editor |
$17.4M | 1998 |
94% | 93% | Fargo |
Director, Writer, Film Editor |
$24.5M | 1996 |
59% | 79% | The Hudsucker Proxy |
Director, Screenwriter |
$2.1M | 1994 |
90% | 89% | Barton Fink |
Director, Writer, Film Editor |
$5.7M | 1991 |
92% | 90% | Miller's Crossing |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$4.7M | 1990 |
91% | 85% | Raising Arizona |
Director, Writer |
$21.1M | 1987 |
94% | 88% | Blood Simple |
Director, Screenwriter |
$1.7M | 1984 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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93% | 85% | Fargo | Executive Producer | 2020 2017 2014-2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | CBS News Sunday Morning | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlie Rose | Guest | 2010 |
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