Joel Coen
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The ThumbScore for Joel Coen (76.7%) is the average audience approval rating across 19 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Joel's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Audiences rate Joel Coen’s films higher than 84% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
Free to watch now (26 Oct): Fargo (Kanopy, Hoopla) · The Big Lebowski (Pluto TV) · No Country for Old Men (YouTube, Kanopy, Pluto TV) · Inside Llewyn Davis (Hoopla, Kanopy) · Barton Fink (Hoopla) · The Hudsucker Proxy (Roku Channel, Tubi, Kanopy) and 1 more.
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Joel Daniel Coen (born November 29, 1954) is an American filmmaker, working with his brother, Ethan Coen, together known as the Coen brothers(/ˈkoʊən/). Their films span many genres and styles, which they frequently subvert or parody. Among their most acclaimed works are Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), No Country for Old Men (2007), A Serious Man (2009), True Grit (2010) and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). The brothers generally write, direct and produce their films jointly. However, due to regulations, Joel received sole directing credit while Ethan received sole production credit until The Ladykillers (2004). From then on, they would be credited as directors and producers and shared editing credits under the alias Roderick Jaynes. The duo started directing separately in the 2020s, resulting in Joel's The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021), Ethan's Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind (2022) and Drive-Away Dolls (2024).
Together, they have been nominated for 13 Academy Awards and one individual nomination. They share Best Original Screenplay for Fargo and Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for No Country for Old Men. They won the Palme d'Or for Barton Fink at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. The Coens have written films for other directors, including Sam Raimi's Crimewave (1985), Angelina Jolie's World War II biopic Unbroken (2014) and Steven Spielberg's Cold War drama Bridge of Spies (2015). They produced Terry Zwigoff's Bad Santa (2003) and John Turturro's Romance and Cigarettes (2005). Ethan is also a writer of short stories, theatre and poetry. They are known for their distinctive stylistic trademarks, including genre hybridity.
Born 1954-11-29 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
On ThumbScore, Joel Coen appears in 19 films with an average audience score of 76.7%, most frequently in the Crime genre.
Sources: TMDB
