Joel Coen

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American filmmaker editor film director film producer human screenwriter

Joel Coen is an American filmmaker, best known as one half of the Coen brothers duo, acclaimed for writing and directing darkly comic, genre-bending films such as Fargo, No Country for Old Men, and The Big Lebowski.

Aliases (1)

Pedro McDormand Coen ×1

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American filmmaker → editor → film director → film producer → human → screenwriter →
awardReceived	Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay → Academy Award for Best Director → Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay → Academy Award for Best Picture → BAFTA Award → Golden Globe Award →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1954-11-29 →
educatedAt	New York University → New York University Tisch School of the Arts →
familyName	Coen →
genre	black comedy film → crime film → drama film → neo-noir film →
givenName	Joel →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	Coen brothers NERFINISHED →
name	Joel Coen →
notableFor	darkly comic films → genre-bending storytelling →
notableWork	A Serious Man → Barton Fink → Blood Simple → Burn After Reading → Fargo NERFINISHED → Hail, Caesar! → Inside Llewyn Davis → Intolerable Cruelty → Miller's Crossing → No Country for Old Men → O Brother, Where Art Thou? → Raising Arizona → The Ballad of Buster Scruggs → The Big Lebowski → The Hudsucker Proxy → The Ladykillers → The Man Who Wasn't There → The Tragedy of Macbeth → True Grit →
occupation	film director → film editor → film producer → screenwriter →
placeOfBirth	St. Louis Park, Minnesota →
sexOrGender	male →
sibling	Ethan Coen NERFINISHED →
spouse	Frances McDormand →

Referenced by (28)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Hail, Caesar! → Inside Llewyn Davis → No Country for Old Men → O Brother, Where Art Thou? → True Grit (2010 film) →	director
Hail, Caesar! → Inside Llewyn Davis → No Country for Old Men → True Grit (2010 film) →	producer
Bridge of Spies → Inside Llewyn Davis → No Country for Old Men → True Grit (2010 film) →	screenwriter
Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival) → New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director →	notableRecipient
Hail, Caesar! → O Brother, Where Art Thou? →	writer
Frances McDormand ("Pedro McDormand Coen") →	adoptedChild
Carter Burwell →	collaboratedWith
Ethan Coen →	collaboratesWith
Alden Ehrenreich →	directorWorkedWith
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay →	hasNotableMultipleWinners
Joel Coen →	name
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay →	notableMultipleWinner
BAFTA Award for Best Direction →	notableWinner
Ethan Coen →	sibling
Frances McDormand →	spouse
Peter Stormare →	workedWith