History Creator / TheCoenBrothers

* LighterAndSofter: A couple of his films (Like ''Film/TheHudsuckerProxy'', ''Film/RaisingArizona'' and ''Film/IntolerableCruelty'') have either happy or [[BitterSweetEnding bittersweet]] endings.

Joel has been married to actress Creator/FrancesMcDormand -- whom he met on the set of their first film ''Film/BloodSimple'' -- since 1984. She's appeared in seven of their films, including ''Film/{{Fargo}}'', for which she won the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestActressInALeadingRole Academy Award for Best Actress]]. She said of the event, "After all these years sleeping with the director, it's finally paid off." Ethan has been married to Tricia Cooke, who worked as an editor on several of the brothers' films, since 1990.

Among their numerous award wins, the brothers are the second of three duos in history to win the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestDirecting Academy Award for Best Director]][[note]]after Creator/RobertWise & Jerome Robbins for ''Film/WestSideStory1961'', and ahead of [[Creator/TheDaniels Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert]] for ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce''[[/note]], and the only duo to come from the same family.

Joel David Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957), collectively known as the Coen Brothers, are filmmakers who have been marching to the beat of their own drum and thumbing their noses at traditional genre boundaries since 1984. Bouncing from FilmNoir to screwball comedy, from quirky indies to big-budget studio pieces, they function as a two-man writer-director-producer-editor SiblingTeam.

* LighterAndSofter: A couple of his films (Like ''Film/TheHudsuckerProxy'', ''Film/RaisingArizona'' and ''Film/IntolerableCruelty'') have a more optimistic feel and have either happy or [[BitterSweetEnding bittersweet]] endings.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: All of their films are extremely cynical, with the jarring exceptions of ''Film/RaisingArizona'' and ''Film/TheHudsuckerProxy'', whilst ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' and ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'' fall somewhere in-between. There's something to be said for the strong underlying sense of morality that permeates their films, though.

Among their numerous award wins, the brothers are the second of three duos in history to win the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestDirecting Academy Award for Best Director]][[note]]after Creator/RobertWise & Jerome Robbins for ''Film/WestSideStory1961'', and ahead of [[Creator/TheDaniels Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert]] for ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce''[[/note]], and the first duo to come from the same family.

Among their numerous award wins, the brothers are the second duo in history to win the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestDirecting Academy Award for Best Director]][[note]]after Creator/RobertWise & Jerome Robbins for ''Film/WestSideStory1961''[[/note]], and the first duo to come from the same family.

!!The Coen Brothers and their films provide examples of:

* HiveMind: Cast and crew have nicknamed them "The Two-Headed Director" because of how in-sync their visions are for a film. Apparently if you separately ask them the same question on set, nine times out of ten they'll give the same answer.

* TheHyena: The two of them have what's been referred to as a "collective laugh" and often get the other going when one of them starts it. According to Joel's wife Frances [=McDormand=] it's genetic, since their father has it as well and her son with Joel has also picked it up.

* ''Film/DriveAwayDolls'' (2023)[[note]]first feature directed solely by Ethan[[/note]]

** In addition to these, the Coens are good friends with director Creator/SamRaimi, with Joel assistant-editing ''Film/TheEvilDead,'' cameoed and did rewrite work (uncredited) on ''Film/{{Darkman}},'' and collaborating on ''Crimewave'' and ''Film/TheHudsuckerProxy.''

Joel has been married to actress Creator/FrancesMcDormand -- whom he met on the set of their first film ''Film/BloodSimple'' -- since 1984. She's appeared in seven of their films, including ''Film/{{Fargo}}'', for which she won the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestActressInALeadingRole Academy Award for Best Actress]]. She said of the event, "After all these years sleeping with the director, it's finally paid off." Ethan has been married to Tricia Cooke since 1990, who worked as an editor on several of the brothers' films.

All of their films are scored by Carter Burwell, and all of their films are edited by Roderick Jaynes. Jaynes doesn't exist; he is a pseudonym for the brothers themselves. Yeah, they like to have creative control on their films.

Joel David Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957), collectively known as the Coen Brothers, have been making films and thumbing their noses at traditional genre boundaries since 1984. Bouncing from FilmNoir to screwball comedy, from quirky indies to big-budget studio pieces, they function as a two-man writer-director-producer-editor SiblingTeam.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: All of their films are extremely cynical, with the jarring exceptions of ''Film/RaisingArizona'' and ''Film/TheHudsuckerProxy'', whilst ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' falls somewhere inbetween. There's something to be said for the strong underlying sense of morality that permeates their films, though.

* ''Film/DriveAwayDolls'' (2023)[note]]first feature directed solely by Ethan[[/note]]

* ''Film/DriveAwayDolls'' [[note]]first feature directed solely by Ethan[[/note]]