Joel and Ethan Coen at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015
This is the list of awards and nominations received by the Coen brothers (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen).
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen have received numerous accolades including four Academy Awards , two BAFTA Awards , a Golden Globe Award , a Directors Guild of America Award , three Critics' Choice Awards , and four Independent Spirit Awards as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards .
Together they have each been nominated for a total of fourteen Academy Awards (twice under their alias “Roderick Jaynes”) and have won four, including two for screenwriting (Best Original Screenplay for Fargo and Best Adapted Screenplay for No Country for Old Men ), one for Best Director (No Country for Old Men ), and one for Best Picture (No Country for Old Men ). Twelve of their nominations were joint, but each received an individual nomination for Fargo (Joel for Best Director and Ethan for Best Picture) – thus the brothers have fifteen combined nominations.
They are two of only eleven filmmakers with three Oscars for the same film. The others are James L. Brooks for Terms of Endearment (1983), James Cameron for Titanic (1997), Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather Part II (1974), Alejandro G. Iñárritu for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Billy Wilder for The Apartment (1960), Alfonso Cuarón for Roma , Bong Joon-ho for Parasite (Cuarón and Bong's films both won Best International Feature Film ) and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).
Major associations
Guild awards
Year
Category
Nominated work
Result
Ref.
2007
Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
No Country for Old Men
Won
2010
True Grit
Nominated
2014
Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television
Fargo
Won
2016
Won
2018
Nominated
Miscellaneous accolades
Year
Category
Nominated work
Result
Ref.
1985
Best Director (Joel)
Blood Simple
Won
Best Screenplay
Nominated
1996
Best Director (Joel)
Fargo
Won
Best Screenplay
Won
2009
A Serious Man
Best Director
Nominated
Robert Altman Award
Won
2013
Inside Llewyn Davis
Best Feature
Nominated
Festival awards
Critics associations
References
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^ "50th BAFTA Awards" . awards.bafta.org . Retrieved March 16, 2024 .
^ "54th BAFTA Awards" . awards.bafta.org . Retrieved March 16, 2024 .
^ "61st BAFTA Awards" . awards.bafta.org . Retrieved March 16, 2024 .
^ "62nd BAFTA Awards" . awards.bafta.org . Retrieved March 16, 2024 .
^ "63rd BAFTA Awards" . awards.bafta.org . Retrieved March 16, 2024 .
^ "64th BAFTA Awards" . awards.bafta.org . Retrieved March 16, 2024 .
^ "67th BAFTA Awards" . awards.bafta.org . Retrieved March 16, 2024 .
^ "69th BAFTA Awards" . awards.bafta.org . Retrieved March 16, 2024 .
^ "Outstanding Limited Series (2016)" . Emmys.com . Retrieved March 16, 2024 .
^ "Outstanding Limited Series (2017)" . Emmys.com . Retrieved March 16, 2024 .
^ "Emmys 2024: List of Nominees" . The Hollywood Reporter . 17 July 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2024 .
^ "Golden Globe Award Nominations" . Variety . Retrieved March 16, 2024 .
^ "Globes toss toga party" . Variety . Retrieved March 16, 2024 .
^ "A Beautiful Mind tops Golden Globe nominees" . Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved March 16, 2024 .
^ "Complete list of Golden Globe winners" . ABC News . Retrieved March 16, 2024 .
^ "List of Golden Globe winners and nominees" . CNN . Retrieved March 16, 2024 .
^ "Golden Globes 2014: full list of winners" . The Guardian . Retrieved March 16, 2024 .
Directed
Together Joel only Ethan only
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