---
name: "Ethan Coen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ethan-coen"
fi1m_id: "ethan-coen"
imdb_id: "nm0001053"
tmdb_id: 1224
wikidata_id: "Q13595531"
roles: ["Writer","Producer","Director"]
born: "21 September 1957"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 18
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-01T20:02:59.652577+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Ethan Coen

## Identity

Ethan Coen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ethan-coen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ethan-coen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0001053
- **TMDB ID:** 1224
- **Wikidata ID:** Q13595531
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Coen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13595531, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001053/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1224

Writer and producer. Born 21 September 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer, Director
- **Born:** 21 September 1957, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- **Active:** 1987–present
- **Also known as:** Roderick Jaynes, ايثان كوين, 伊森·柯恩, 이선 제시 코엔, Ethan Jesse Coen, ئیسن کۆون , 科恩兄弟, اتان کوئن
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 18: 12 directing, 5 writing, 1 producing
- **Frequently works with:** [Joel Coen](https://film.one/person/joel-coen.md), [John Goodman](https://film.one/person/john-goodman.md), [Frances McDormand](https://film.one/person/frances-mcdormand.md), [George Clooney](https://film.one/person/george-clooney.md), [John Turturro](https://film.one/person/john-turturro.md), [Josh Brolin](https://film.one/person/josh-brolin.md), [Scott Rudin](https://film.one/person/scott-rudin.md), [Eric Fellner](https://film.one/person/eric-fellner.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 4 Oscars (4 won · 11 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 83, as writer, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 84 (1), 1990s 84 (5), 2000s 82 (5), 2010s 80 (6), 2020s 60 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 83 to 75 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Crime 4, Drama 3, Thriller 3, Comedy 2, Adventure 1
- **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $332m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Coen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13595531, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001053/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1224

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*No Country for Old Men*](https://film.one/film/no-country-for-old-men.md) (91), [*True Grit*](https://film.one/film/true-grit.md) (84)
- **Disney+:** [*Fargo*](https://film.one/film/fargo.md) (91)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*A Serious Man*](https://film.one/film/a-serious-man.md) (84)
- **Netflix:** [*The Ballad of Buster Scruggs*](https://film.one/film/the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs.md) (79)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Hudsucker Proxy*](https://film.one/film/the-hudsucker-proxy.md) (78)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Ethan Coen

> For nearly forty years Ethan Coen and his brother wrote people who chose their words carefully and then waited for the words to land. The writing is among the sharpest in American film; on his own, so far, it is thinner.

Somebody in a Coen film says something they have plainly rehearsed, and the film waits. A gangster in *Miller's Crossing* (1990) picks his phrasing; a girl in *True Grit* (2010) tells grown men what justice requires; a folk singer in *Inside Llewyn Davis* (2013) sings a whole song while the story stands still. The pause after the line is as much the writing as the line itself, which is why the brothers so often cut their own films, and why the talk in a Coen picture sounds like nobody else's.

Which brother wrote which line is a question nobody outside their office can answer. From *Blood Simple* (1984) onwards Joel and Ethan wrote, directed and produced as one, and the credits shuffled the names about while the sensibility stayed put. There is the run of period pastiche in the early 1990s, *Miller's Crossing*, *Barton Fink* (1991) and *The Hudsucker Proxy* (1994), in which the dialogue is polished until you can occasionally hear the effort. Then *Fargo* (1996), which we would recommend to people who avoid crime films altogether, and *The Big Lebowski* (1998), in which the mystery is the least of it. Then the stern, patient stretch of *No Country for Old Men* (2007), *A Serious Man* (2009) and *True Grit*, the best sustained run of their careers on our scoring.

What works is the refusal to hurry. In *No Country* the writing gives Javier Bardem's Chigurh long silences, and we were frightened of him because of the silence rather than the violence. What does not work is a fondness, never quite shaken, for the eccentric turn. The manner-of-speaking jokes in *Fargo*, the comic religious counsel in *A Serious Man*, the broader faces in *The Man Who Wasn't There* (2001): a character becomes a joke before he has become a person, and the film briefly looks pleased with itself. Roger Deakins's severe framing and Carter Burwell's grave scores have often supplied the weight the jokes threatened to take away.

Then, in 2024, an answer of sorts. *Drive-Away Dolls*, written with Tricia Cooke, who also edits, and directed by Ethan alone, is brisk, bawdy and thin, 84 minutes that feel like it. The goons talk like goons. It has the shape of *Raising Arizona* (1987) and *The Big Lebowski* without the trick of making every minor character sound like nobody else, and the reviews so far have called it a pastiche of earlier Coen films, which is roughly our view too. Coen has said of the old grind that "It was just getting a little old and difficult." On the evidence of his first solo film, the difficulty may have been where the good writing came from. A second solo feature followed in 2025; we have not seen it. Start with *Fargo* or *No Country*, and treat the solo work as a footnote until it earns more.

## Biography

Ethan Coen is an American filmmaker, screenwriter and director. He has worked extensively with his brother Joel Coen on films that they have jointly written, directed and produced. Their credits include *Blood Simple* (1984), *Fargo* (1996), *The Big Lebowski* (1998), *O Brother, Where Art Thou?* (2000) and *No Country for Old Men* (2007). The pair have also written screenplays for other directors, including *Bridge of Spies* (2015) and *Unbroken* (2014).

Coen began directing solo projects in the 2020s. These include the documentary *Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind* (2022) and the feature *Drive-Away Dolls* (2024), which he wrote with his wife Tricia Cooke. The brothers have shared editing credits on many of their films under the pseudonym Roderick Jaynes. Coen was born in 1957 in Minnesota and studied at Princeton University.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, apnews.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (18)

### Directed (12)

- *Drive-Away Dolls* (2024), Fi1m 60, Director, Writer, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/drive-away-dolls.md)
- *The Ballad of Buster Scruggs* (2018), Fi1m 79, Director, Editor, Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs.md)
- *Hail, Caesar!* (2016), Fi1m 72, Director, Writer, Editor, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/hail-caesar.md)
- *Inside Llewyn Davis* (2013), Fi1m 87, Editor, Director, Writer, Songs, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/inside-llewyn-davis.md)
- *True Grit* (2010), Fi1m 84, Editor, Producer, Screenplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/true-grit.md)
- *A Serious Man* (2009), Fi1m 84, Director, Producer, Editor, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/a-serious-man.md)
- *Burn After Reading* (2008), Fi1m 72, Editor, Writer, Director, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/burn-after-reading.md)
- *No Country for Old Men* (2007), Fi1m 91, Director, Writer, Editor, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/no-country-for-old-men.md)
- *The Man Who Wasn't There* (2001), Fi1m 81, Editor, Producer, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-man-who-wasnt-there.md)
- *The Big Lebowski* (1998), Fi1m 85, Director, Writer, Editor, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-lebowski.md)
- *The Hudsucker Proxy* (1994), Fi1m 78, Producer, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hudsucker-proxy.md)
- *Barton Fink* (1991), Fi1m 83, Editor, Screenplay, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/barton-fink.md)

### Wrote (5) — the average rests on these

- *Bridge of Spies* (2015), Fi1m 75, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/bridge-of-spies.md)
- *O Brother, Where Art Thou?* (2000), Fi1m 82, Writer, Producer, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/o-brother-where-art-thou.md)
- *Fargo* (1996), Fi1m 91, Writer, Producer, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/fargo.md)
- *Miller's Crossing* (1990), Fi1m 82, Producer, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/millers-crossing.md)
- *Raising Arizona* (1987), Fi1m 84, Screenplay, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/raising-arizona.md)

### Produced (1)

- *Fargo* (2014), Fi1m 82, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/fargo-2014.md)

## Complete filmography (50)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Honey Don't!* (2025), Producer, Writer, Director
- *Eddington* (2025), Thanks — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/eddington.md)
- *Drive-Away Dolls* (2024), Director, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/drive-away-dolls.md)
- *Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind* (2022), Director
- *The Jesus Rolls* (2019), Characters
- *The Ballad of Buster Scruggs* (2018), Director, Producer, Editor, Writer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs.md)
- *The Shape of Water* (2017), Thanks — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-shape-of-water.md)
- *Suburbicon* (2017), Writer
- *Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Hail, Caesar!* (2016), Director, Writer, Producer, Editor — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/hail-caesar.md)
- *The Way of Folk* (2016), Thanks
- *Bridge of Spies* (2015), Writer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/bridge-of-spies.md)
- *Unbroken* (2014), Screenplay
- *Fargo* (2014), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/fargo-2014.md)
- *Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'* (2013), Producer
- *Inside Llewyn Davis* (2013), Director, Producer, Writer, Editor, Songs — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/inside-llewyn-davis.md)
- *Strutter* (2013), Thanks
- *Gambit* (2012), Writer
- *True Grit* (2010), Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/true-grit.md)
- *A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop* (2009), Original Story
- *A Serious Man* (2009), Director, Writer, Producer, Editor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/a-serious-man.md)
- *Burn After Reading* (2008), Director, Producer, Editor, Writer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/burn-after-reading.md)
- *Don't Mess with Texas* (2008), Writer
- *No Country for Old Men* (2007), Producer, Editor, Director, Writer — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/no-country-for-old-men.md)
- *To Each His Own Cinema* (2007), Director, Writer
- *Paris Je T'aime* (2006), Director, Writer
- *Romance & Cigarettes* (2005), Executive Producer
- *The Ladykillers* (2004), Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor
- *Bad Santa* (2003), Executive Producer
- *Intolerable Cruelty* (2003), Producer, Editor, Screenplay
- *Where the Girls Are* (2003), Executive Producer
- *A Fever in the Blood* (2002), Original Story
- *The Man Who Wasn't There* (2001), Editor, Producer, Writer, Director — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-man-who-wasnt-there.md)
- *The Grey Zone* (2001), Thanks
- *Down from the Mountain* (2001), Executive Producer
- *O Brother, Where Art Thou?* (2000), Producer, Editor, Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/o-brother-where-art-thou.md)
- *Eight* (1998), Thanks
- *The Naked Man* (1998), Writer
- *The Big Lebowski* (1998), Producer, Editor, Writer, Director — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-lebowski.md)
- *Eye of God* (1997), Thanks
- *Fargo* (1996), Producer, Editor, Writer — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/fargo.md)
- *The Hudsucker Proxy* (1994), Producer, Writer, Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hudsucker-proxy.md)
- *HBO First Look* (1992), series, Actor
- *Barton Fink* (1991), Producer, Editor, Screenplay, Director — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/barton-fink.md)
- *Miller's Crossing* (1990), Producer, Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/millers-crossing.md)
- *Darkman* (1990), as Oldsmobile Passenger (uncredited)
- *Raising Arizona* (1987), Producer, Screenplay — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/raising-arizona.md)
- *Crimewave* (1985), as Reporter at execution (uncredited) · Writer
- *Blood Simple* (1985), Producer, Editor, Writer
- *Go, Beavers!*, Director, Writer, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Ethan Coen](https://film.one/media/person/11921/gallery-954cc4f322eb.jpg) Ethan Coen — Siebbi, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Ethan_Coen_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2011%29.jpg/1280px-Ethan_Coen_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2011%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Pierre Lescure at the Cannes film festival (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/11921/gallery-c3833786a795.jpg) Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Pierre Lescure at the Cannes film festival (2015) — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Cannes_2015_41.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![The Coen brothers were at the Castro Theater presenting a recent restoration of their first feature "Blood Simple" (1984) at the 59th San Francisco Internationa](https://film.one/media/person/11921/gallery-6523c07a41fd.jpg) The Coen brothers were at the Castro Theater presenting a recent restoration of their first feature "Blood Simple" (1984) at the 59th San Francisco Internationa — Shelly Prevost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Coen_Brothers_at_the_Castro_Theater%2C_30_April_2016_01.jpg/1280px-Coen_Brothers_at_the_Castro_Theater%2C_30_April_2016_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![The Coen brothers were at the Castro Theater presenting a recent restoration of their first feature "Blood Simple" (1984) at the 59th San Francisco Internationa](https://film.one/media/person/11921/gallery-b04fde9ad3c1.jpg) The Coen brothers were at the Castro Theater presenting a recent restoration of their first feature "Blood Simple" (1984) at the 59th San Francisco Internationa — Shelly Prevost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Coen_Brothers_at_the_Castro_Theater%2C_30_April_2016_02.jpg/1280px-Coen_Brothers_at_the_Castro_Theater%2C_30_April_2016_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ethan Coen](https://film.one/media/person/11921/gallery-7621a8fb2b4e.jpg) Ethan Coen — Image via TMDB
- ![Ethan Coen](https://film.one/media/person/11921/gallery-39801a738006.jpg) Ethan Coen — Image via TMDB
- ![Ethan Coen](https://film.one/media/person/11921/gallery-3f7763ea9a0a.jpg) Ethan Coen — Image via TMDB
- ![The Coen brothers were at the Castro Theater presenting a recent restoration of their first feature "Blood Simple" (1984) at the 59th San Francisco Internationa](https://film.one/media/person/11921/gallery-3c405dca27a4.jpg) The Coen brothers were at the Castro Theater presenting a recent restoration of their first feature "Blood Simple" (1984) at the 59th San Francisco Internationa — Shelly Prevost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Coen_Brothers_at_the_Castro_Theater%2C_30_April_2016_03.jpg/1280px-Coen_Brothers_at_the_Castro_Theater%2C_30_April_2016_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![The Coen brothers were at the Castro Theater presenting a recent restoration of their first feature "Blood Simple" (1984) at the 59th San Francisco Internationa](https://film.one/media/person/11921/gallery-94ed969d75d8.jpg) The Coen brothers were at the Castro Theater presenting a recent restoration of their first feature "Blood Simple" (1984) at the 59th San Francisco Internationa — Shelly Prevost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Coen_Brothers_at_the_Castro_Theater%2C_30_April_2016_04.jpg/1280px-Coen_Brothers_at_the_Castro_Theater%2C_30_April_2016_04.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ethan Coen](https://film.one/media/person/11921/gallery-87ded14094c9.jpg) Ethan Coen — Image via TMDB
- ![Ethan Coen](https://film.one/media/person/11921/gallery-f9423b980bd5.jpg) Ethan Coen — Image via TMDB
- ![Ethan Coen](https://film.one/media/person/11921/gallery-23aa55914bdf.jpg) Ethan Coen — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 4 won, 11 nominated

- 2019: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *The Ballad of Buster Scruggs*
- 2016: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Bridge of Spies*
- 2011: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *True Grit*
- 2011: Best Picture (nominated), for *True Grit*
- 2011: Best Director (nominated), for *True Grit*
- 2010: Best Picture (nominated), for *A Serious Man*
- 2010: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *A Serious Man*
- 2008: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (won), for *No Country for Old Men*
- 2008: Best Director (won), for *No Country for Old Men*
- 2008: Best Picture (won), for *No Country for Old Men*
- 2008: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *No Country for Old Men*
- 2001: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *O Brother, Where Art Thou?*
- 1997: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (won), for *Fargo*
- 1997: Best Picture (nominated), for *Fargo*
- 1997: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *Fargo*

### BAFTA Film Awards — 1 won, 11 nominated

- 2014: Best Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Inside Llewyn Davis*
- 2011: Best Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *True Grit*
- 2011: Best Film (nominated), for *True Grit*
- 2010: Best Original Screenplay (nominated), for *A Serious Man*
- 2009: Best Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Burn After Reading*
- 2008: Best Direction (won), for *No Country for Old Men*
- 2008: Best Film (nominated), for *No Country for Old Men*
- 2008: Best Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *No Country for Old Men*
- 2001: Best Original Screenplay (nominated), for *O Brother, Where Art Thou?*
- 1997: Best Film (nominated), for *Fargo*
- 1997: Best Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Fargo*
- 1997: Best Editing (nominated), for *Fargo*

### Golden Globes — 1 won, 8 nominated

- 2013: Best Original Song (nominated)
- 2007: Best Screenplay (won), for *No Country for Old Men*
- 2007: Best Motion Picture – Drama (nominated), for *No Country for Old Men*
- 2007: Best Director (nominated), for *No Country for Old Men*
- 2001: Best Screenplay (nominated), for *The Man Who Wasn't There*
- 2001: Best Motion Picture – Drama (nominated), for *The Man Who Wasn't There*
- 2000: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (nominated), for *O Brother, Where Art Thou?*
- 1996: Best Screenplay (nominated), for *Fargo*
- 1996: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (nominated), for *Fargo*

### Other awards — 18 won, 32 nominated

- AACTA International Award for Best Screenplay 2013: AACTA International Award for Best Screenplay (nominated), for *Inside Llewyn Davis*
- Critics' Choice Awards 2013: Best Original and Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Inside Llewyn Davis*
- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director 2013: National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director (won), for *Inside Llewyn Davis*
- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay 2013: National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay (nominated), for *Inside Llewyn Davis*
- Satellite Award for Best Director 2013: Satellite Award for Best Director (nominated), for *Inside Llewyn Davis*
- Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay 2013: Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Inside Llewyn Davis*
- Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture 2011: Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture (nominated), for *True Grit*
- Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay 2011: Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *True Grit*
- Critics' Choice Awards 2010: Best Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *True Grit*
- Critics' Choice Awards 2010: Best Director (nominated), for *True Grit*
- Independent Spirit Awards 2010: Best Director (nominated), for *A Serious Man*
- Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay 2010: Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay (nominated), for *A Serious Man*
- Critics' Choice Awards 2009: Best Original and Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *A Serious Man*
- National Board of Review Award for Best Original Screenplay 2009: National Board of Review Award for Best Original Screenplay (won), for *A Serious Man*
- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay 2009: National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay (won), for *A Serious Man*
- Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay 2009: Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay (nominated), for *A Serious Man*
- Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay 2009: Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Burn After Reading*
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Comedy Film 2008: Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Comedy Film (nominated), for *Burn After Reading*
- Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture 2008: Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture (won), for *No Country for Old Men*
- Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay 2008: Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (won), for *No Country for Old Men*
- Critics' Choice Awards 2007: Best Original and Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *No Country for Old Men*
- Critics' Choice Awards 2007: Best Director (nominated), for *No Country for Old Men*
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director 2007: Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director (won), for *No Country for Old Men*
- Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film 2007: Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film (won), for *No Country for Old Men*
- London Film Critics Circle Award for Film of the Year 2007: London Film Critics Circle Award for Film of the Year (won), for *No Country for Old Men*
- National Board of Review Award for Best Film 2007: National Board of Review Award for Best Film (won), for *No Country for Old Men*
- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director 2007: National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director (nominated), for *No Country for Old Men*
- New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director 2007: New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director (won), for *No Country for Old Men*
- New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film 2007: New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film (won), for *No Country for Old Men*
- San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director 2007: San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director (won), for *No Country for Old Men*
- Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay 2007: Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *No Country for Old Men*
- Satellite Award for Best Director 2007: Satellite Award for Best Director (nominated), for *No Country for Old Men*
- Satellite Award for Best Editing 2007: Satellite Award for Best Editing (nominated), for *No Country for Old Men*
- Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Director 2007: Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Director (won), for *No Country for Old Men*
- Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Film 2007: Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Film (won), for *No Country for Old Men*
- Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay 2002: Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay (nominated), for *The Man Who Wasn't There*
- Critics' Choice Awards 2001: Best Original and Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *The Man Who Wasn't There*
- Nebula Award for Best Script 2001: Nebula Award for Best Script (nominated), for *O Brother, Where Art Thou?*
- Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay 2001: Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *O Brother, Where Art Thou?*
- European Film Award for Best Non-European Film 2000: European Film Award for Best Non-European Film (nominated), for *O Brother, Where Art Thou?*
- Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture 1997: Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture (nominated), for *Fargo*
- Satellite Award for Best Editing 1997: Satellite Award for Best Editing (nominated), for *Fargo*
- Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay 1997: Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Fargo*
- Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay 1997: Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Fargo*
- Australian Film Institute Award for Best Foreign Film 1996: Australian Film Institute Award for Best Foreign Film (won), for *Fargo*
- London Film Critics Circle Award for Director of the Year 1996: London Film Critics Circle Award for Director of the Year (won), for *Fargo*
- London Film Critics Circle Award for Film of the Year 1996: London Film Critics Circle Award for Film of the Year (won), for *Fargo*
- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay 1987: National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay (nominated), for *Raising Arizona*
- Independent Spirit Awards 1986: Best Screenplay (nominated), for *Blood Simple*
- Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award 1985: Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award (won), for *Blood Simple*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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