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name: "Joel Coen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joel-coen"
fi1m_id: "joel-coen"
imdb_id: "nm0001054"
tmdb_id: 1223
wikidata_id: "Q13595311"
roles: ["Writer","Director","Producer"]
born: "29 November 1954"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 20
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T19:02:41.293758+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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# Joel Coen

## Identity

Joel Coen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joel-coen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joel-coen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0001054
- **TMDB ID:** 1223
- **Wikidata ID:** Q13595311
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Coen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13595311, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001054/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1223

Writer and director. Born 29 November 1954 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Director, Producer
- **Born:** 29 November 1954, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- **Active:** 1983–present
- **Also known as:** Roderick Jaynes, 조엘 데이비드 코엔, Joel David Coen, 科恩兄弟, جوئل کوئن
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 20: 1 acting, 16 directing, 1 writing, 1 producing, 1 crew
- **Frequently works with:** [Ethan Coen](https://film.one/person/ethan-coen.md), [Frances McDormand](https://film.one/person/frances-mcdormand.md), [John Goodman](https://film.one/person/john-goodman.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), [Holly Hunter](https://film.one/person/holly-hunter.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 3 Oscars (3 won · 9 nominated)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 69 (3), 1990s 84 (5), 2000s 82 (5), 2010s 80 (6), 2020s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Coen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13595311, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001054/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1223

## 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), [*The Tragedy of Macbeth*](https://film.one/film/the-tragedy-of-macbeth.md) (80)
- **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 Joel Coen

> Joel Coen, writing with his brother Ethan, gives ordinary people formal, carefully chosen sentences and then watches what happens to them. The talk is the reason to watch; the plots beneath it tend to wander, and we have forgiven that more often than not.

Somebody in a Joel Coen film is always choosing the exact word. Mattie Ross in *True Grit* (2010) picks her insults as if she were paying by the letter. Mark Rylance's spy in *Bridge of Spies* (2015) asks "would it help?" each time he is told he ought to be worried. In *Hail, Caesar* (2016) a director spends a whole scene trying to get a cowboy to say "Would that it were so simple", and we laughed harder than we had in months at nothing more than two men and five words. That is the Coen sentence: formal, slightly too good for the person saying it, and funny because everyone on screen takes it seriously.

He has almost never written alone. The scripts are the brothers' together, from *Blood Simple* (1984) onwards, with Joel taking the director credit until the mid-2000s, and they cut their own films too, which is why the writing and the editing are hard to tell apart: a line is given the pause it needs and the next piece of business waits. The early films play a genre with a straight face, the baby-stealing farce *Raising Arizona* (1987), the gangster picture *Miller's Crossing* (1990), the Hollywood nightmare *Barton Fink* (1991). *Fargo* (1996) is where the method grew up, because the ordinary people were treated as worth the writers' time rather than as fools to be watched. It remains, with *No Country for Old Men* (2007), the film of theirs we rate highest.

The two novels they adapted are the tightest things they have made. Cormac McCarthy's plot holds *No Country for Old Men* to a straight line, so the writing can spend itself on how frightening a pause is, and Charles Portis's language carries much of *True Grit*. Left to invent their own stories the brothers wander. *The Big Lebowski* (1998), *O Brother, Where Art Thou?* (2000) and *Hail, Caesar* are strings of encounters, and in each we reached a point where we were waiting for the next scene rather than the next turn. The other habit is a weakness for the eccentric turn. A manner of speaking becomes the joke before the character has become a person, and in *A Serious Man* (2009) and *Fargo* that makes the cruelty easier than it should be.

The scripts are written for a company. Frances McDormand and John Goodman have each appeared in seven or eight of them, and it is McDormand who most often supplies the warmth the writing withholds, in *Fargo* and again beside Billy Bob Thornton in *The Man Who Wasn't There* (2001). Carter Burwell's scores give the muddles a gravity the characters cannot manage for themselves, and Roger Deakins frames the pictures so that we search them for trouble. Without those three the writing would sound colder than it is.

His first solo credit, *The Tragedy of Macbeth* (2021), is another adaptation, of a play nobody has accused of wandering. We have not reviewed it. On the record so far, that is the sensible place for him to be: hand this writer someone else's story and he will find the right word for every line of it.

## Biography

Joel Coen is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and editor. He has worked extensively with his brother Ethan Coen; the pair are known collectively as the Coen brothers. Their joint credits include directing and writing *Miller's Crossing* (1990), *Barton Fink* (1991) and *The Hudsucker Proxy* (1994).

Coen was born on 29 November 1954 in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. He studied at Bard College at Simon's Rock and New York University. The brothers have frequently shared editing duties under the pseudonym Roderick Jaynes. Coen received sole directing credit on their films until *The Ladykillers* (2004). He made his solo directorial debut with *The Tragedy of Macbeth* (2021).

Together the Coens have received multiple Academy Award nominations and wins, including for *Fargo* (1996) and *No Country for Old Men* (2007). They won the Palme d'Or for *Barton Fink* at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. Coen is married to the actor Frances McDormand.

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

## On Fi1m (20)

### Performed in (1)

- *Spies Like Us* (1985), Fi1m 47, as Drive-In Security — [page](https://film.one/film/spies-like-us.md)

### Directed (16)

- *The Tragedy of Macbeth* (2021), Fi1m 80, Producer, Editor, Screenplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-tragedy-of-macbeth.md)
- *The Ballad of Buster Scruggs* (2018), Fi1m 79, Editor, Director, Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs.md)
- *Hail, Caesar!* (2016), Fi1m 72, Editor, Director, Writer, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/hail-caesar.md)
- *Inside Llewyn Davis* (2013), Fi1m 87, Director, Editor, Producer, Writer, Songs — [page](https://film.one/film/inside-llewyn-davis.md)
- *True Grit* (2010), Fi1m 84, Editor, Director, Producer, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/true-grit.md)
- *A Serious Man* (2009), Fi1m 84, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/a-serious-man.md)
- *Burn After Reading* (2008), Fi1m 72, Producer, Director, Writer, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/burn-after-reading.md)
- *No Country for Old Men* (2007), Fi1m 91, Writer, Director, Producer, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/no-country-for-old-men.md)
- *The Man Who Wasn't There* (2001), Fi1m 81, Writer, Director, Editor, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-man-who-wasnt-there.md)
- *O Brother, Where Art Thou?* (2000), Fi1m 82, Editor, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/o-brother-where-art-thou.md)
- *The Big Lebowski* (1998), Fi1m 85, Writer, Director, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-lebowski.md)
- *Fargo* (1996), Fi1m 91, Writer, Editor, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/fargo.md)
- *The Hudsucker Proxy* (1994), Fi1m 78, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hudsucker-proxy.md)
- *Barton Fink* (1991), Fi1m 83, Editor, Screenplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/barton-fink.md)
- *Miller's Crossing* (1990), Fi1m 82, Director, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/millers-crossing.md)
- *Raising Arizona* (1987), Fi1m 84, Screenplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/raising-arizona.md)

### Wrote (1) — the average rests on these

- *Bridge of Spies* (2015), Fi1m 75, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/bridge-of-spies.md)

### Produced (1)

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

### Crew (1)

- *The Evil Dead* (1983), Fi1m 77, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-evil-dead.md)

## Complete filmography (46)

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

- *The Bend in the River* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Eddington* (2025), Thanks — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/eddington.md)
- *The Tragedy of Macbeth* (2021), Producer, Screenplay, Editor, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-tragedy-of-macbeth.md)
- *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)
- *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)
- *No Country for Old Men* (2007), Director, Producer, Editor, 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), Director, Editor, Screenplay
- *The Man Who Wasn't There* (2001), Director, Editor, Writer, Producer — 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), Director, Editor, Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/o-brother-where-art-thou.md)
- *Eight* (1998), Thanks
- *The Big Lebowski* (1998), Director, Editor, Writer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-lebowski.md)
- *Eye of God* (1997), Thanks
- *Fargo* (1996), Director, Editor, Writer — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/fargo.md)
- *The Hudsucker Proxy* (1994), Director, Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hudsucker-proxy.md)
- *HBO First Look* (1992), series, Actor
- *Barton Fink* (1991), Director, Editor, Screenplay — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/barton-fink.md)
- *Miller's Crossing* (1990), Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/millers-crossing.md)
- *Darkman* (1990), as Oldsmobile Driver (uncredited)
- *Raising Arizona* (1987), Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/raising-arizona.md)
- *Spies Like Us* (1985), as Drive-In Security — Fi1m 47, [page](https://film.one/film/spies-like-us.md)
- *Crimewave* (1985), as Reporter at execution (uncredited) · Writer
- *Blood Simple* (1985), Director, Writer, Editor
- *The Evil Dead* (1983), Assistant Editor — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/the-evil-dead.md)
- *Jack of Spades*, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Joel Coen](https://film.one/media/person/77386/gallery-ff67d696bbf5.jpg) Joel Coen — No machine-readable author provided. Nikita~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Joel_Coen%28CannesPhotocall%29--.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/77386/gallery-a20943e1bc30.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://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Coen_Brothers_at_the_Castro_Theater%2C_30_April_2016_07.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Joel Coen](https://film.one/media/person/77386/gallery-feab4fee9772.jpg) Joel Coen — Image via TMDB
- ![Joel Coen](https://film.one/media/person/77386/gallery-3284cb79c6aa.jpg) Joel Coen — Image via TMDB
- ![Joel Coen](https://film.one/media/person/77386/gallery-81c665c4b4e5.jpg) Joel Coen — Image via TMDB
- ![Joel Coen](https://film.one/media/person/77386/gallery-c2934845e5a6.jpg) Joel Coen — Image via TMDB
- ![Joel Coen](https://film.one/media/person/77386/gallery-ad10046ddbb3.jpg) Joel Coen — Image via TMDB
- ![Joel Coen](https://film.one/media/person/77386/gallery-6c7c2518775a.jpg) Joel Coen — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 3 won, 9 nominated

- 2019: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *The Ballad of Buster Scruggs*
- 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 Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *A Serious Man*
- 2010: Best Picture (nominated), for *A Serious Man*
- 2008: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (won), for *No Country for Old Men*
- 2008: Best Picture (won), for *No Country for Old Men*
- 2008: Best Director (nominated), for *No Country for Old Men*
- 2008: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *No Country for Old Men*
- 1997: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (won), for *Fargo*
- 1997: Best Director (nominated), for *Fargo*

### BAFTA Film Awards — 2 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 Editing (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 Direction (won), for *Fargo*
- 1997: Best Film (nominated), for *Fargo*
- 1997: Best Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Fargo*

### Golden Globes — 0 won, 7 nominated

- 2007: Best Motion Picture – Drama (nominated), for *No Country for Old Men*
- 2007: Best Director (nominated), for *No Country for Old Men*
- 2007: Best Screenplay (nominated), for *No Country for Old Men*
- 2001: Best Screenplay (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 Director (nominated), for *Fargo*

### Cannes Film Festival — 3 won

- 1996: Cannes Best Director Award (won), for *Fargo*
- 1991: Palme d'Or (won), for *Barton Fink*
- 1991: Cannes Best Director Award (won), for *Barton Fink*

### Other awards — 25 won, 27 nominated

- 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 Director (nominated), for *True Grit*
- Independent Spirit Awards 2010: Best Director (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 Director (won), for *No Country for Old Men*
- Critics' Choice Awards 2007: Best Original and Adapted Screenplay (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 (nominated), 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*
- 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 (won), 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?*
- Independent Spirit Awards 1997: Best Screenplay (won), for *Fargo*
- Independent Spirit Awards 1997: Best Director (won), for *Fargo*
- 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 Director 1997: Satellite Award for Best Director (won), 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 (won), for *Fargo*
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director 1996: Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director (won), for *Fargo*
- Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film 1996: Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film (nominated), 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 Board of Review Award for Best Director 1996: National Board of Review Award for Best Director (won), for *Fargo*
- New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film 1996: New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film (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 Director (won), for *Blood Simple*
- 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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