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Ethan Coen and Joel Coen in Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen in Burn After Reading (2008)

George Clooney, Ethan Coen, and Joel Coen in Burn After Reading (2008)

Brad Pitt, Ethan Coen, and Joel Coen in Burn After Reading (2008)

John Malkovich, Ethan Coen, and Joel Coen in Burn After Reading (2008)

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen in True Grit (2010)

Jeff Bridges, Ethan Coen, and Joel Coen in True Grit (2010)

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and Hailee Steinfeld in True Grit (2010)

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and Brian Grazer in Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

George Clooney, Ethan Coen, and Joel Coen in Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

George Clooney, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Roger Deakins, and Betsy Magruder in A Serious Man (2009)

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen in A Serious Man (2009)

Ethan Coen and Aaron Wolff in A Serious Man (2009)

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen in The Big Lebowski (1998)

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and Wayne Duvall in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke in Drive-Away Dolls (2024)

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen in No Country for Old Men (2007)

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and John Turturro in Barton Fink (1991)

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and Roger Deakins in Fargo (1996)

Tom Hanks, Ethan Coen, and Joel Coen in The Ladykillers (2004)

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and Marlon Wayans in The Ladykillers (2004)

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen in Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen in The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

Billy Bob Thornton, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and Michael Badalucco in The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen at an event for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and John Turturro at an event for Barton Fink (1991)

Ethan Coen, Paolo Taviani, and Vittorio Taviani

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and Bertrand Tavernier

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, and Bertrand Tavernier

Ethan Coen at an event for Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Sophie Marceau, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Xavier Dolan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rossy de Palma, Guillermo del Toro, Sienna Miller, Thierry Frémaux, and Rokia Traoré

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen at an event for Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Ethan Coen at an event for Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

John Goodman, Ethan Coen, T Bone Burnett, and Oscar Isaac

John Goodman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Oscar Isaac, and Carey Mulligan at an event for Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, T Bone Burnett, Todd McCarthy, and Joseph Henry

The younger brother of Joel, Ethan Coen is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning writer, producer and director coming from small independent films to big profile Hollywood films. He was born on September 21, 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In some films of the brothers- Ethan & Joel wrote, Joel directed and Ethan produced - with both editing under the name of Roderick Jaynes; but in 2004 they started to share the three main duties plus editing. Each film bring its own quality, creativity, art and with one project more daring the other.

His film debut was in 1984 dark humored thriller Blood Simple (1984) starring Frances McDormand (Joel's wife) and M. Emmet Walsh in a deep story revolving a couple of romantic lovers followed by an insisting private eye. The film received critical acclaim, some award nominations to Ethan (best writing at the Film Independent Spirit Awards) and became a cult following over the years. Their second work was the comedy Raising Arizona (1987) starring Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter as a unusual couple trying to create their family by kidnapping babies from a rich family.

Miller's Crossing (1990) was the third film of the brothers, a mob drama with heavy influences from several criminal dramas and with a stellar cast that included Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, Albert Finney, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro and Jon Polito (the latter three would become regular actors in the Coen's films).

Their views on the Hollywood era of the 1930's was the central theme is the great Barton Fink (1991), created from a writers block both brothers suffered during the making of their previous film. John Turturro stars as a writer who suffers from a breakdown when he's commissioned to a big budget Hollywood project. The film was a breakthrough for the Coens marking their first win at the Cannes Film Festival (Joel got the Palme d'Or) and the first time a film of their received Oscar nominations. The underrated comedy The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) was what followed; but no one could predict their next big and boldest move that would definitely put Ethan and Joel on the spotlight once and for all.

The comedy of errors Fargo (1996) was a huge critical and commercial success. With its crazed story of a man who hires two loonies to kidnap his own wife and a pregnant policewoman tracking the leads to the crime, Ethan and Joel came at their greatest moment that couldn't be missed. The film received several awards during award season and the Coen's got their first Oscar in the Best Original Screenplay category. What came next was the underrated yet hilariously good The Big Lebowski (1998) starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, John Turturro and Steve Buscemi. Those masterpieces made their career in the late 1990's cementing the duo as one of the greatest writers and directors of their generation, if not, from all time.

The Odyssey retold for the 1930's in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000); the intelligent noir The Man Who Wasn't There (2001); the comedy Intolerable Cruelty (2003) and a remake The Ladykillers (2004) marked their way into the early 2000's. Certaintly of period of minor hits and some downer moments.

The big return was with the highly acclaimed No Country for Old Men (2007), where the brothers swooped at the Oscars with three wins: Best Picture, Screenplay and Writing, an adaptation from the Cormac McCarthy's novel.

A Serious Man (2009), Burn After Reading (2008), True Grit (2010), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Hail, Caesar! (2016) and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) were the subsequent films, all well received by audiences or got awards recognition, mostly nominations.

A shift from tone and career move was writing with other writers and for another directors: for Angelina Jolie's Unbroken (2014), for Spielberg in Bridge of Spies (2015) and George Clooney in Suburbicon (2017).

As for personal life, Ethan has been married to Tricia Cooke since 1990. Tricia works as an assistant editor in several of the Coen brothers films.

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