Joel Coen

About Joel Coen

No Country For Old Men, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, Burn After Reading, and Inside Llewyn Davis are among the films he directed, wrote, and produced. The Coen Brothers are a filmmaking duo consisting of him and his brother Ethan. The brothers have been nominated for 12 Academy Awards, with their film No Country For Old Men winning Best Picture in 2007.

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, known collectively as The Coen Brothers, are American directors, producers, screenwriters and editors. Their films cover a wide variety of genres and styles, which they often sabotage or parody. Their most acclaimed works include: Raise Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou ?, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, True Grit, Inside Llewyn Davis and The Ballad by Buster Scruggs. The brothers wrote, directed, and produced their films together, but it wasn't until The Ladykillers Joel received sole credit for directing and Ethan for production. They often do the highest billing rotation for their movie scripts while also sharing the editing credits under the alias Roderick Jaynes. Together they were nominated for 13 Academy Awards and each received one, winning Best Original Screenplay for Fargo and Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay for No Country for Old. Yeast.

Education	St. Louis Park High School
Occupation	Film directors, producers, screenwriters, editors
Children	Joel: 1 Ethan: 2
Alma mater	Joel: New York University (BFA), Bard College at Simon's Rock (AA) Ethan: Princeton University (BA), Bard College at Simon's Rock (AA)
Other names	The Coen Brothers, Roderick Jaynes, Mike Zoss
Spouse(s)	Joel: Frances McDormand (m. 1984) Ethan: Tricia Cooke (m. 1990)
Years active	1984–present
Born	Joel Daniel Coen, November 29, 1954 Ethan Jesse Coen, September 21, 1957, St. Louis Park, Minnesota, U.S. (both)

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Trivia

He and Ethan formed the production company Mike Zoss Productions and the 2000 film Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? was the first film produced by the company.

Joel Coen before fame

After studying film at NYU, he began working as a production assistant on a variety of films and music videos.

Achievement of Joel Coen

Mike Zoss Productions was founded by him and Ethan, and the company's debut picture, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, was released in 2000.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$60 Million

Joel Coen family life

In 1984, he married Frances McDormand, with whom he had a son in 1994. McDormand has also appeared in several Coen Brothers films, such as Fargo and Burn After Reading.

Associations of Joel Coen

On the 1981 picture The Evil Dead, he served as an assistant director under Sam Raimi.

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Family Members

Name	Relationship	Net worth	Profession
Pedro McDormand Coen	Children		N/A
Frances McDormand	Spouse	$30 Million	Actor