Birth name: Joel Daniel Coen Birth:29 November 1954 Died: Nationality:
Career / Biography
Joel Cohen has directed and produced a number of films with his brother Ethan Coen. Their first film was the low budget Blood Simple, which was followed by the bigger budget of the comdey Raising Arizona. It was a big success at the box office. Miller's Crossing is a depresion era gangster film. Barton Fink is a period drama about a writer with writers block. This along with The Hudsucker Proxy were well recived critically but did not go down well at the box office.
It was Fargo, a comparatively low budget thriller, that gave them a box office success. The Big Lebowski is somewhat surreal comic film that has become something of a cult film. The Man Who Wasn't There was filmed in black and White and is in the style of film noir. Intolerable Cruelty was a romantic comedy of a divorce lawyer and a gold digger. They then remake the Ealing comedy The ladykillers. No Country For Old Men was a return to the thriller genre and won them the Best Director Oscar. Burn after Reading was a return to comedy. True Grit was their biggest success at the box office and was nominated for 10 Osacrs including Best Director. Hail Ceasr! is a comedy set in the 1950's in Hollywood. He is married to the actress Frances McDormand who has appeared in several of his films.
