Joel Coen

Joel Coen is an American filmmaker whose long collaboration with his brother Ethan produced films including Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo and The Big Lebowski. Their work moves between crime, comedy and American regional settings, often placing ordinary ambitions within increasingly unstable situations.

Barton Fink won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, while No Country for Old Men received Academy Awards including best picture and directing. The brothers’ later films include A Serious Man, True Grit and Inside Llewyn Davis. Joel subsequently wrote and directed The Tragedy of Macbeth, a 2021 Shakespeare adaptation starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand.