Joel Coen Wiki Biography
Joel David Cohen was born on 29 November 1954, in St. Louis Park, Minnesota USA, of Jewish descent. He is a filmmaker, one half of the Coen Brothers known for their work spanning numerous genres. Some of their best works include “Fargo”, “No Country for Old Men”, and “True Grit”. All of Joel’s efforts have helped put his net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Joel Cohen? As of early-2017, sources estimate a net worth that is at $120 million, mostly earned through a successful career in film. The brothers have produced, written, and directed films together, receiving 13 Academy Award nominations and winning four of them. As they continue their career, it is expected that their wealth will also continue to increase.
Joel Coen Net Worth $120 million
When they were children, Joel saved enough money to buy a Vivitar Super 8 camera and the brothers would try to remake movies they saw on television. They matriculated from St. Louis High School, then attended Bard College at Simon’s Rock before separating for a while, with Joel taking an undergraduate film program at New York University.
After Coen graduated, he worked as a production assistant, helping Sam Raimi create “The Evil Dead”. In 1984, the brothers would start to work on their first commercial film together, entitled “Blood Simple” which received a lot of praise at Sundance, and starred Frances McDormand, who would work with the brothers in many films. They then worked on “Crimewave” and “Raising Arizona”, followed in 1990 by “Miller’s Crossing”, and the following year “Barton Fink” which was a critical success, winning the Palme d’Or and three major awards at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. Their next success would be the film “Fargo” which was only produced for $7 million but was a commercial success. The brothers’ net worth would increase as the film would win several awards. In 1998, they created “The Big Lebowski” which started with mixed reviews, but eventually achieved massive critical success.
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In 2000, Joel and his brother continued their streak of successful films with “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” which starred George Clooney, again very successful and even spawned a concert of its own. Aside from the main films, they directed two short films “Paris, je t’aime” and “To Each His Own Cinema”, both of which got high reviews. In 2007, they created “No Country for Old Men” which is based on the novel of the same name, and went on to win four Academy Awards including Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Picture, and Best Supporting Actor. In 2009, they created “A Serious Man” which got two Oscar nominations.
The following year, the Coen Brothers released “True Grit” which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, and three years later created “Inside Llewyn Davis” which would win the Grand Prix at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. They also wrote films that they didn’t direct, including “Bridge of Spies” which was directed by Steven Spielberg, and which was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
For his personal life, it is known that Joel has been married to actress Frances McDormand since 1984, and they have an adopted son.
| Net Worth | $120 Million |
| Date Of Birth | November 29, 1954 |
| Place Of Birth | St. Louis Park, Minnesota USA |
| Height | 6′ (1.83 m) |
| Profession | Producer, Writer, Director |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Frances McDormand (m. 1984) |
| Children | Pedro McDormand Coen |
| Parents | Edward Coen, Rena Coen |
| Siblings | Ethan Coen, Deborah Coen |
| IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001054/ |
| Awards | Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay, Palme d’Or, Cannes Best Director Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay – Motion Picture, Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Direct… |
| Nominations | Academy Award for Best Film Editing, Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture, Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, BAFTA Award for Best Film, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, César Award for B… |
| Movies | Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men, Blood Simple, Hail, Caesar!, Inside Llewyn Davis, Barton Fink, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, True Grit, Raising Arizona, Burn After Reading, Miller’s Crossing, A Serious Man, The Man Who Wasn’t There, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Ladykillers, Intolerable Cr… |
| Trademark | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Often casts Josh Brolin |
| 2 | His films often feature a big male character who talks loudly or yells at the camera. E.g. John Goodman in The Big Lebowski (1998), Raising Arizona (1987), Barton Fink (1991) and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) |
| 3 | A tense situation in a moving car. E.g. Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), _Burn After reading (2008)_ and Blood Simple. (1984). |
| 4 | Dry humor |
| 5 | Several films contain scenes of graphic violence |
| 6 | Almost all of his films involve a pivotal scene that takes place in a hotel room |
| 7 | His protagonists are often ordinary people who find themselves caught up in extraordinary situations |
| 8 | Many of his films feature an amoral but intelligent character who works in business or law |
| 9 | Often has at least one male character with dated, unusual, or goofy hair |
| 10 | Several Coen Brothers films feature a mysterious, purely evil antagonist, who are typically laconic, physically imposing and extremely violent |
| 11 | Highly keen soundtracks (always handled by Skip Lievsay), in which mundane sounds are made to seem eerie or used for absurdist effect. |
| 12 | Films frequently contain adulterous wives or girlfriends. See: _Blood Simple (1984)_, Miller’s Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001), Intolerable Cruelty (2003), Burn After Reading (2008), A Serious Man (2009). |
| 13 | Often begins movies with a voiceover by a southern character (see: _Blood Simple (1984)_, The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), The Big Lebowski (1998), No Country for Old Men (2007)). |
| 14 | Highly exaggerated performances, particularly with eyes and voices |
| 15 | Elaborate, self-conscious homages to past films and filmmaking styles |
| 16 | Use of phones ringing for long periods of time before a character answers of at all. Tom Reagan in _Millers Crossing (1990)_, The Dude in The Big Lebowski (1998), Anton Chigurh in _No Country For Old Men (2007)_ and Barton Fink (1991). |
| 17 | Opening shot with the landscape of the area in which the movie is set and a voiceover (e.g. No Country for Old Men (2007), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)). |
| 18 | Men often explicitly suffer bizarre and bloody deaths or indignities in their films, but women are typically harmed off-screen (Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), No Country for Old Men (2007), Barton Fink (1991)). |
| 19 | His movies often have a victim of a crime who is completely unsympathetic (Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), Raising Arizona (1987)) |
| 20 | Films often include characters or places with the stereotypes of the regions they take place in (the Mid-Western accents and snow-covered landscapes for Fargo (1996), the Southwestern accents and barren deserts of Arizona for Raising Arizona (1987), the Southern accents and dust-bowl landscape for_O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)_, Los Angeles accents and life-style in The Big Lebowski (1998), and the accents and cramped environments of Los Angeles in Barton Fink (1991)). |
| 21 | Films usually contain at least one fast-talking character |
| 22 | Typically makes movies set during a specific time period, often in the near-past (Fargo (1996) takes place in 1987, The Big Lebowski (1998) in 1991, and No Country for Old Men (2007) in 1980). |
| 23 | Often has a certain phrase that is repeated throughout the movie or a specific scene. |
| 24 | Often creates at least one lengthy sequence in most of his films where only music plays as a major event unfolds, i.e Raising Arizona (1987) when Nicolas Cage is being chased after robbing a store. Also sequences in Miller’s Crossing (1990), The Big Lebowski (1998), The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001), and Fargo (1996). |
| 25 | The Coens frequently focus on round spinning objects: hat in Miller’s Crossing (1990), bowling balls and tumble-weed in The Big Lebowski (1998), hair pomade tins in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), UFO and a car wheel in The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) …or the fans in Blood Simple. (1984). |
| 26 | Films often center around or include a botched crime |
| 27 | References to the films of Stanley Kubrick |
| 28 | Frequently casts Steve Buscemi (6 times), spouse Frances McDormand (5 times), Jon Polito (5 times), John Goodman (5 times), John Turturro (4 times), George Clooney (3 times), Michael Badalucco (3 times), Charles Durning (twice), M. Emmet Walsh (twice), Peter Stormare (twice), Richard Jenkins (twice), John Mahoney (twice), Tony Shalhoub (twice), Stephen Root (3 times), and Billy Bob Thornton (twice). |
| Quote | |
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| 1 | [on his and his brother Ethan’s choice of characters in their films] What’s interesting to us are the people you know that are very good at what they do but aren’t necessarily successful. |
| 2 | Someone asked us once how we adapt novels, and Ethan [Coen] said, “Joel holds the book open by the spine, while I retype it into the computer…Don’t change it [the book] if it’s not broken! |
| 3 | I like Hollywood just the way it is, actually. I don’t think I’d change anything. I like that it’s out here 3,000 miles from where I live. |
| 4 | My most important professional accomplishment? I think that it’s that I’m so scintillating and engaging in an interview. |
| 5 | There’s no doubt that our Jewish heritage affects how we see things. |
| 6 | [upon winning the Oscar for Best Director for No Country for Old Men (2007)] In the late ’60s, when [brother Ethan Coen] was 11 or 12, he got a suit and a briefcase and we went to the Minneapolis International Airport with a Super 8 camera and made a movie about shuttle diplomacy called “Henry Kissinger, Man on the Go”. And, honestly, what we do now doesn’t feel much different from what we were doing then. |
| 7 | [Ethan Coen] once described the way we worked together as: one of us types into the computer while the other holds the spine of the book open flat. That’s why there needs to be two of us – otherwise he’s gotta type one-handed. That’s how you “collaborate” with someone else. |
| 8 | [Ethan Coen] had a nightmare of one day finding me on the set of something like The Incredible Hulk (2008), wearing a gold chain and saying, “I’ve got to eat, don’t I?” |
| 9 | The bigger stars we’ve worked with have been without the movie-star vanities or meshugaas that you read about and dread. [George Clooney], for example, was the opposite. He has no entourage. He’s a big movie star, but a nice guy. |
| 10 | We’ve never considered our stuff either homage or spoof. Those are things other people call it, and it’s always puzzled me that they do. |
| 11 | I hate when people cry in movies. It’s particularly disconcerting when you’re sitting at a really awful movie and you hear people all around you sobbing and blowing their noses. |
| 12 | [on filmmaking] I can almost set my watch by how I’m going to feel at different stages of the process. It’s always identical, whether the movie ends up working or not. I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you’re very excited by it and very optimistic about how it’s going to work. And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before. |
| 13 | It’s a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow — that to me is kind of inexplicable. |
| 14 | Frequently we are writing characters and we are thinking, “Wouldn’t it be interesting to see such and such play this kind of a person?”, and the character starts to grow out of that as you are writing it. It’s a combination of things that you are making up and what you know about the actor. |
| Fact | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Both he and his brother Ethan are huge fans of Stanley Kubrick. |
| 2 | As of 2014, he and Ethan Coen wrote four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Fargo (1996), No Country for Old Men (2007), A Serious Man (2009) and True Grit (2010). Of those, only No Country for Old Men (2007) is a winner in the category. |
| 3 | The Coen Brothers are noted for their unusual writing process of not only eschewing outlines, but of not even concerning themselves what their story is about or who their characters are before beginning to write their screenplays. They will simply begin writing any scene they think up that they find to be interesting. Then, if they think of an interesting idea for a following scene, they will write that one, and then another, and so on and so forth until they have a first draft, discovering what the story is along the way. Then, they will heavily revise what they have until they feel they have a shootable screenplay. They have noted that because of this, they will often get writer’s block around the mid-point of any given screenplay, and will begin another screenplay in the meantime in order to remain productive. For example, the entirety of Barton Fink (1991) was written while they were battling writer’s block with Miller’s Crossing (1990), and the first 40 pages of The Big Lebowski (1998) were written while they were stuck with Barton Fink (1991). |
| 4 | In the late 60s, Coen, along with younger brother Ethan, shot their own Super 8 version of “Advise and Consent.”. |
| 5 | Has won the Cannes prize for Best Director three times, more than any other filmmaker. He won in 1991 for Barton Fink, 1996 for Fargo and 2001 for The Man Who Wasn’t There. |
| 6 | When asked what films most influenced him and his brother early on, Joel mentioned Hollywood comedies from the late 50s and early 60s usually critically considered lightweight and inferior, including Boeing, Boeing (1965), A Global Affair (1964), That Touch of Mink (1962) and Pillow Talk (1959). He also claimed that The Guns of Navarone (1961) is his favorite film. |
| 7 | Roderick Jaynes, who is credited with editing all of his films, does not, in fact, exist. The name is a pseudonym for Joel and his brother Ethan. |
| 8 | His mother, Rena Neumann Coen, died of kidney disease in 2001. |
| 9 | Has a younger sister named Deborah, who is a psychiatrist. |
| 10 | As of 2009, he is the only person to have ever directed his wife to a Best Actress Oscar (Frances McDormand in Fargo (1996)). |
| 11 | The first Coen brothers film where both he and brother Ethan Coen are given directing and producing credits was The Ladykillers (2004). They have shared these duties on all of their films, but Joel has always been listed as director and Ethan as producer. |
| 12 | Directed 6 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Michael Lerner, Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Javier Bardem, Jeff Bridges, and Hailee Steinfeld. McDormand and Bardem won Oscars for their performances in one of his movies. |
| 13 | Only three times in Academy Award history have director-collaborators been nominated for Best Directing Oscars: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961), Warren Beatty and Buck Henry for Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men (2007). (Wise/Robbins and the Coens actually won the award). |
| 14 | He (along with his brother Ethan Coen) is part of the prestigious group of individuals to have won Oscars for writing, directing and producing in the same year, for the film No Country for Old Men (2007)’. The others are Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), James L. Brooks for Terms of Endearment (1983), Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather: Part II (1974) and Billy Wilder for The Apartment (1960), and ‘Alejandro González Iñárritu’ for _Birdman (2014)_. James Cameron also won three Oscars for Titanic (1997) but they were for directing, producing and editing. |
| 15 | Born to Edward Coen, an economist at the University of Minnesota, and his wife Rena, an art historian at St. Cloud State University. |
| 16 | In his childhood, he saved money from mowing lawns to buy a Super-8 camera. |
| 17 | As his brother, he graduated from Simon’s Rock Early College in Great Barrington, MA. He later attended New York University’s undergraduate film program to finally graduate after four years there. |
| 18 | Resides in New York City with his family. |
| 19 | When an actor improvises a line on the set, he will almost invariably say something like, “That was great, but could you do it like it’s written in the script?” Most Coen brothers films are the same (line for line) when released as they are on the page in the final draft of the script. |
| 20 | Often has a scene that takes place in dark areas with a sense of dark humor. In The Big Lebowski (1998), The Dude talks to Jeffery Lebowski in a dark room with fire; In O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Devil’s henchmen capture Pete with thunder in the background; In Intolerable Cruelty (2003), Miles meets with Myerson in the dark room with only a glare of light showing Myerson’s face; In Fargo (1996), Shep starts beating up Carl in a dim-lighted room. |
| 21 | Frequently includes kidnapping-plots in his films. |
| 22 | Brother-in-law of Tricia Cooke. |
| 23 | Ranked #88 in Premiere’s 2003 annual Power 100 List with brother Ethan Coen. They had been ranked #92 in 2002. |
| 24 | He and brother Ethan Coen have had final cut on all of their films since Blood Simple. (1984), their debut film. |
| 25 | Alumnus of Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, along with brother Ethan Coen. This is a fully-accredited college for students who typically enter at the age of 16 – before graduating high school. |
| 26 | Works so closely with his brother Ethan Coen that the two of them have been jokingly referred to as “The Two-Headed Director”. |
| 27 | Used to receive sole credit as director for the Coen brothers movies’, but has always directed films with his brother Ethan Coen (they also write and produce their films together). This was changed with The Ladykillers (2004), and now they both receive credit for directing and producing. |
| 28 | He and his wife adopted a baby boy from Paraguay in 1994 and named him Pedro McDormand Coen. |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fargo | 2014-2017 | TV Series executive producer – 30 episodes | |
| Hail, Caesar! | 2016 | producer | |
| Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis | 2013 | TV Movie documentary producer | |
| Inside Llewyn Davis | 2013 | producer | |
| True Grit | 2010 | producer | |
| A Serious Man | 2009 | producer | |
| Burn After Reading | 2008 | producer | |
| No Country for Old Men | 2007 | producer | |
| Romance & Cigarettes | 2005 | executive producer | |
| The Ladykillers | 2004 | producer | |
| Bad Santa | 2003 | executive producer | |
| Intolerable Cruelty | 2003 | producer – uncredited | |
| The Man Who Wasn’t There | 2001 | producer – uncredited | |
| Down from the Mountain | 2000 | Documentary executive producer | |
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | producer – uncredited | |
| The Big Lebowski | 1998 | producer – uncredited | |
| Fargo | 1996 | producer – uncredited | |
| The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | producer – uncredited | |
| Barton Fink | 1991 | producer – uncredited | |
| Miller’s Crossing | 1990 | producer – uncredited | |
| Raising Arizona | 1987 | producer – uncredited | |
| Blood Simple. | 1984 | producer – uncredited |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suburbicon | 2017 | filming | |
| Going Places | characters filming | ||
| Hail, Caesar! | 2016 | written by | |
| Bridge of Spies | 2015 | written by | |
| Unbroken | 2014/I | screenplay | |
| Inside Llewyn Davis | 2013 | written by | |
| Gambit | 2012/I | screenplay | |
| True Grit | 2010 | screenplay | |
| A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop | 2009 | based on his screenplay for “Blood Simple” | |
| A Serious Man | 2009 | written by | |
| Burn After Reading | 2008 | written by | |
| World Cinema | 2007 | Short | |
| No Country for Old Men | 2007 | screenplay | |
| Paris, je t’aime | 2006 | segment “Tuileries” | |
| The Ladykillers | 2004 | screenplay | |
| Intolerable Cruelty | 2003 | screenplay | |
| The Man Who Wasn’t There | 2001 | written by | |
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | written by | |
| The Big Lebowski | 1998 | written by | |
| Fargo | 1996 | written by | |
| The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | written by | |
| Barton Fink | 1991 | written by | |
| Miller’s Crossing | 1990 | written by | |
| Raising Arizona | 1987 | written by | |
| Crimewave | 1985 | written by | |
| Blood Simple. | 1984 | written by |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hail, Caesar! | 2016 | ||
| Inside Llewyn Davis | 2013 | ||
| True Grit | 2010 | ||
| A Serious Man | 2009 | ||
| Burn After Reading | 2008 | ||
| Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s’éteint et que le film commence | 2007 | segment “World Cinema” | |
| World Cinema | 2007 | Short | |
| No Country for Old Men | 2007 | ||
| Paris, je t’aime | 2006 | segment “Tuileries” | |
| The Ladykillers | 2004 | ||
| Intolerable Cruelty | 2003 | ||
| The Man Who Wasn’t There | 2001 | ||
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | ||
| The Big Lebowski | 1998 | ||
| Fargo | 1996 | ||
| The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | ||
| Barton Fink | 1991 | ||
| Miller’s Crossing | 1990 | ||
| Raising Arizona | 1987 | ||
| Blood Simple. | 1984 |
Editor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hail, Caesar! | 2016 | as Roderick Jaynes | |
| Inside Llewyn Davis | 2013 | as Roderick Jaynes | |
| True Grit | 2010 | as Roderick Jaynes | |
| A Serious Man | 2009 | as Roderick Jaynes | |
| Burn After Reading | 2008 | ||
| No Country for Old Men | 2007 | as Roderick Jaynes | |
| The Ladykillers | 2004 | as Roderick Jaynes | |
| Intolerable Cruelty | 2003 | as Roderick Jaynes | |
| The Man Who Wasn’t There | 2001 | as Roderick Jaynes | |
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | as Roderick Jaynes | |
| The Big Lebowski | 1998 | as Roderick Jaynes | |
| Fargo | 1996 | film editor – as Roderick Jaynes | |
| Barton Fink | 1991 | as Roderick Jaynes | |
| Blood Simple. | 1984 | as Roderick Jaynes |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darkman | 1990 | Oldsmobile Driver (uncredited) | |
| Spies Like Us | 1985 | Drive-In Security Guard | |
| Crimewave | 1985 | Reporter At Execution (uncredited) |
Editorial Department
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Evil Dead | 1981 | assistant film editor | |
| Fear No Evil | 1981 | assistant editor |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inside Llewyn Davis | 2013 | writer: “Please Please Mr. Kennedy” |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darkman | 1990 | developer – uncredited |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Making of ‘No Country for Old Men’ | 2008 | Video documentary short special thanks | |
| X | 2008 | Short thanks | |
| Life by the Drop | 2004 | Short special thanks | |
| Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II | 2003 | sincere thanks | |
| Shooting ‘Miller’s Crossing’: A Conversation with Barry Sonnenfeld | 2003 | Video documentary short special thanks | |
| Aggressive Inline | 2002 | Video Game special thanks | |
| The Grey Zone | 2001 | special thanks | |
| The 4th Floor | 1999 | special thanks – as Joel | |
| Eight | 1998 | Short thanks | |
| The Whole Wide World | 1996 | special thanks | |
| Anesthesia | 2015 | special thanks | |
| The Oohs | 2012 | Short acknowledgment | |
| Leaves of Grass | 2009 | the director wishes to thank | |
| Bureaucracy | 2009 | special thanks – as Roderick Jaynes | |
| Indigo | 2009/I | Short special thanks |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 88th Annual Academy Awards | 2016 | TV Special | Himself – Nominee: Best Original Screenplay |
| The First Hundred Feet, the Last Hundred Feet | 2015 | Documentary short | Himself |
| The Way of Folk | 2015 | Documentary short | Himself |
| The 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards | 2014 | TV Special | Himself – Nominee (credit only) |
| 71st Golden Globe Awards | 2014 | TV Special | Himself – Nominee |
| CBS News Sunday Morning | 2013 | TV Series documentary | Himself – Guest |
| Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis | 2013 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Cinema 3 | 1996-2013 | TV Series | Himself |
| Une journée particulière | 2012 | Documentary | Himself |
| The 65th Annual Tony Awards | 2011 | TV Special | Himself – Audience Member |
| Metropolis | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
| Charlie Rose | 1996-2010 | TV Series | Himself – Guest / Himself |
| Michel Ciment, le cinéma en partage | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
| Entertainment Tonight | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
| No Country for Old Men: Diary of a Country Sheriff | 2008 | Video short | Himself |
| No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin’s Unauthorized Behind the Scenes | 2008 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| No Country for Old Men: Press Timeline Interviews & Conversation | 2008 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| The 80th Annual Academy Awards | 2008 | TV Special | Himself – Winner: Best Picture, Best Director & Best Adapted Screenplay / Nominee: Best Film Editing (as Roderick Jaynes) |
| The Making of ‘No Country for Old Men’ | 2008 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| A Look Inside ‘Intolerable Cruelty’ | 2004 | Video documentary short | Himself – Director |
| Minnesota Nice | 2003 | Video short documentary | Himself |
| Making ‘The Man Who Wasn’t There’ | 2002 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| The 44th Annual Grammy Awards | 2002 | TV Special | Himself |
| Down from the Mountain | 2000 | Documentary | Himself |
| Inside Look: Down from the Mountain | 2000 | TV Short documentary | Himself |
| The Coen Brothers | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Making of ‘The Big Lebowski’ | 1998 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| The 69th Annual Academy Awards | 1997 | TV Special | Himself – Winner: Best Original Screenplay & Nominee: Best Director & Best Film Editing |
| 3rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | 1997 | TV Special | Himself |
| The 54th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1997 | TV Special | Himself – Nominee: Best Director & Best Screenplay |
| Primer plano | 1996 | TV Series | Himself |
| Moving Pictures | 1996 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| American Cinema | 1995 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| HBO First Look | 1994 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Dick Cavett Show | 1991 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Dick Cavett Show | 1991 | TV Series | Himself |
Archive Footage
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | PGA Award | PGA Awards | Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television | Fargo (2014) |
| 2015 | PGA Award | PGA Awards | Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television | Fargo (2014) |
| 2014 | AFI Award | AFI Awards, USA | Movie of the Year | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | VFCC Award | Vancouver Film Critics Circle | Best Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | Cinema Bloggers Award | Cinema Bloggers Awards, Portugal | Best North American Film | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | GFCA Award | Georgia Film Critics Association (GFCA) | Best Original Song | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | ICS Award | International Cinephile Society Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | ALFS Award | London Critics Circle Film Awards | Screenwriter of the Year | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | NSFC Award | National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA | Best Director | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | NCFCA Award | North Carolina Film Critics Association | Best Original Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | Grand Prize of the Jury | Cannes Film Festival | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) | |
| 2013 | Silver Medallion Award | Telluride Film Festival, US | ||
| 2013 | Gotham Independent Film Award | Gotham Awards | Best Feature | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | HFCS Award | Houston Film Critics Society Awards | Best Original Song | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Houston Film Critics Society Awards | ||
| 2013 | NBR Award | National Board of Review, USA | Best Original Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2011 | AFI Award | AFI Awards, USA | Movie of the Year | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | Bronze Wrangler | Western Heritage Awards | Theatrical Motion Picture | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | Spur Award | Western Writers of America | Best Western Drama | True Grit (2010) |
| 2010 | AFI Award | AFI Awards, USA | Movie of the Year | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | Robert Altman Award | Independent Spirit Awards | A Serious Man (2009) | |
| 2010 | ICS Award | International Cinephile Society Awards | Best Director | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | ICS Award | International Cinephile Society Awards | Best Original Screenplay | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | NSFC Award | National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA | Best Screenplay | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2009 | Robert | Robert Festival | Best American Film (Årets amerikanske film) | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2009 | BSFC Award | Boston Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Screenplay | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2009 | Critics Award | SESC Film Festival, Brazil | Best Foreign Director (Melhor Diretor Estrangeiro) | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2009 | ICP Award | Indiewire Critics’ Poll | Best Screenplay | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2009 | IOFCP Award | International Online Film Critics’ Poll | Best Film Editing | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2009 | Kinema Junpo Award | Kinema Junpo Awards | Best Foreign Film | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2009 | NBR Award | National Board of Review, USA | Best Original Screenplay | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2008 | David Lean Award for Direction | BAFTA Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Film Editing | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | AFI Award | AFI Awards, USA | Movie of the Year | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | OFCS Award | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | OFCS Award | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | OFCS Award | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Editing | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | PGA Award | PGA Awards | Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | White Elephant | Russian Guild of Film Critics | Best Foreign Film | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Critics Choice Award | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | COFCA Award | Central Ohio Film Critics Association | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | COFCA Award | Central Ohio Film Critics Association | Best Screenplay, Adapted | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | USC Scripter Award | USC Scripter Award | No Country for Old Men (2007) | |
| 2008 | VFCC Award | Vancouver Film Critics Circle | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Adapted Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | David | David di Donatello Awards | Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero) | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | DGA Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | FCCA Award | Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards | Best Foreign Film – English Language | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Motion Picture | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Adapted Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Honorary Texan Award | Houston Film Critics Society Awards | ||
| 2008 | IFC Award | Iowa Film Critics Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | IOMA | Italian Online Movie Awards (IOMA) | Best Adapted Screenplay (Miglior sceneggiatura non originale) | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | IOMA | Italian Online Movie Awards (IOMA) | Best Editing (Miglior montaggio) | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Motion Picture of the Year | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Achievement in Directing | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Screenplay – Motion Picture | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | NTFCA Award | North Texas Film Critics Association, US | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | OFCC Award | Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | EDA Award | Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Best Picture | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | EDA Award | Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | Austin Film Critics Award | Austin Film Critics Association | Best Adapted Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | PFCS Award | Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Achievement in Direction | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | PFCS Award | Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Medium | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | PFCS Award | Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Achievement in Editing | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Motion Picture | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | SFFCC Award | San Francisco Film Critics Circle | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | SEFCA Award | Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | SEFCA Award | Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | SLFCA Award | St. Louis Film Critics Association, US | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | TFCA Award | Toronto Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | TFCA Award | Toronto Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | UFCA Award | Utah Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | UFCA Award | Utah Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay, Adapted | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | WAFCA Award | Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | DFWFCA Award | Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | DFCS Award | Detroit Film Critic Society, US | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | FFCC Award | Florida Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | Golden Schmoes | Golden Schmoes Awards | Best Director of the Year | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | IFCS Award | Internet Film Critic Society | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | KCFCC Award | Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Screenplay, Adapted | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | Sierra Award | Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | NBR Award | National Board of Review, USA | Best Adapted Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2005 | Yoga Award | Yoga Awards | Worst Foreign Director | The Ladykillers (2004) |
| 2002 | David | David di Donatello Awards | Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero) | The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) |
| 2002 | Golden Lady Harimaguada | Las Palmas Film Festival | The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) | |
| 2002 | ALFS Award | London Critics Circle Film Awards | Screenwriter of the Year | The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) |
| 2001 | Special Award | Camerimage | ||
| 2001 | Polish Film Award | Camerimage | ||
| 2001 | Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) | |
| 1998 | Golden Aries | Russian Guild of Film Critics | Best Foreign Film | The Big Lebowski (1998) |
| 1997 | David Lean Award for Direction | BAFTA Awards | Fargo (1996) | |
| 1997 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | Bodil | Bodil Awards | Best American Film (Bedste amerikanske film) | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | Golden Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Director | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | Chlotrudis Award | Chlotrudis Awards | Best Director | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | DFWFCA Award | Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | DFWFCA Award | Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | FFCC Award | Florida Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | FFCC Award | Florida Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Screenplay | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Director | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Screenplay | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | ALFS Award | London Critics Circle Film Awards | Director of the Year | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | ALFS Award | London Critics Circle Film Awards | Screenwriter of the Year | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Fargo (1996) |
| 1996 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Director | Fargo (1996) |
| 1996 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Fargo (1996) |
| 1996 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Film Editing | Fargo (1996) |
| 1996 | SDFCS Award | San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | Fargo (1996) |
| 1996 | Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | Fargo (1996) | |
| 1996 | KCFCC Award | Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | Fargo (1996) |
| 1996 | LAFCA Award | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay | Fargo (1996) |
| 1996 | NBR Award | National Board of Review, USA | Best Director | Fargo (1996) |
| 1994 | Filmmaker Award | Gotham Awards | ||
| 1991 | Palme d’Or | Cannes Film Festival | Barton Fink (1991) | |
| 1991 | Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | Barton Fink (1991) | |
| 1991 | Critics Award | Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival | Miller’s Crossing (1990) | |
| 1990 | Silver Seashell | San Sebastián International Film Festival | Best Director | Miller’s Crossing (1990) |
| 1986 | Audience Jury Award | Fantasporto | Blood Simple. (1984) | |
| 1986 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Director | Blood Simple. (1984) |
| 1985 | Grand Jury Prize | Sundance Film Festival | Dramatic | Blood Simple. (1984) |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Bridge of Spies (2015) |
| 2016 | Critics Choice Award | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Bridge of Spies (2015) |
| 2016 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Original Screenplay | Bridge of Spies (2015) |
| 2016 | GFCA Award | Georgia Film Critics Association (GFCA) | Best Original Screenplay | Bridge of Spies (2015) |
| 2016 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Original Screenplay | Bridge of Spies (2015) |
| 2016 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Bridge of Spies (2015) |
| 2016 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Limited Series | Fargo (2014) |
| 2016 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Bridge of Spies (2015) |
| 2016 | NCFCA Award | North Carolina Film Critics Association | Best Original Screenplay | Bridge of Spies (2015) |
| 2015 | PCC Award | Phoenix Critics Circle | Best Screenplay | Bridge of Spies (2015) |
| 2015 | PFCS Award | Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Bridge of Spies (2015) |
| 2015 | Silver Condor | Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards | Best Foreign Film, Not in the Spanish Language (Mejor Película Extranjera) | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2015 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Bridge of Spies (2015) |
| 2015 | Bodil | Bodil Awards | Best American Film (Bedste amerikanske film) | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2015 | Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Screenplay, Original | Bridge of Spies (2015) |
| 2015 | Critics Choice Award | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Unbroken (2014) |
| 2015 | Screenplay Competition | Screenwriters Choice Awards, Online | Best Original Screenplay | Bridge of Spies (2015) |
| 2015 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Bridge of Spies (2015) |
| 2015 | WAFCA Award | Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Bridge of Spies (2015) |
| 2014 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Picture | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Music, Original Song | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | Movies for Grownups Award | AARP Movies for Grownups Awards | Best Screenwriter | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | Saturn Award | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA | Best Writing | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | Eddie | American Cinema Editors, USA | Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | AACTA International Award | Australian Film Institute | Best Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | SDFCS Award | San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Unbroken (2014) |
| 2014 | Critics Choice Award | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | SLFCA Award | St. Louis Film Critics Association, US | Best Adapted Screenplay | Unbroken (2014) |
| 2014 | COFCA Award | Central Ohio Film Critics Association | Best Original Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | VFCC Award | Vancouver Film Critics Circle | Best Director | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | CinEuphoria | CinEuphoria Awards | Best Film – International Competition | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | CinEuphoria | CinEuphoria Awards | Best Director – International Competition | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | CinEuphoria | CinEuphoria Awards | Best Screenplay – International Competition | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | GFCA Award | Georgia Film Critics Association (GFCA) | Best Director | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Original Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Original Song | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Feature | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Original Song – Motion Picture | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | OFCS Award | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | OFCS Award | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | OFCS Award | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Editing | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | EDA Award | Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Best Picture | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | EDA Award | Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Best Director | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | EDA Award | Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | PFCS Award | Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Screenplay – Original | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | PFCS Award | Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Original Song | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | SDFCS Award | San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | SDFCS Award | San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | SFFCC Award | San Francisco Film Critics Circle | Best Screenplay, Original | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Director | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Screenplay, Original | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | Screenplay Competition | Screenwriters Choice Awards, Online | Best Original Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | Palme d’Or | Cannes Film Festival | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) | |
| 2013 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | VVFP Award | Village Voice Film Poll | Best Director | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | Audience Choice Award | Chicago International Film Festival | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) | |
| 2013 | WAFCA Award | Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | DFCS Award | Denver Film Critics Society | Best Original Song | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | DFCS Award | Denver Film Critics Society | Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | Art Cinema Award | Hamburg Film Festival | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) | |
| 2013 | HFCS Award | Houston Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | HFCS Award | Houston Film Critics Society Awards | Best Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | Grand Marnier Fellowship Award | New York Film Festival | Best Film | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2012 | Bodil | Bodil Awards | Best American Film (Bedste amerikanske film) | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | Movies for Grownups Award | AARP Movies for Grownups Awards | Best Screenwriter | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | OFCS Award | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | OFCS Award | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Screenplay, Adapted | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | EDA Award | Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | PGA Award | PGA Awards | Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | White Elephant | Russian Guild of Film Critics | Best Foreign Film | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2011 | Critics Choice Award | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | Critics Choice Award | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay, Adapted | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | TFCA Award | Toronto Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | COFCA Award | Central Ohio Film Critics Association | Best Adapted Screenplay | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | USC Scripter Award | USC Scripter Award | True Grit (2010) | |
| 2011 | VFCC Award | Vancouver Film Critics Circle | Best Director | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | VFCC Award | Vancouver Film Critics Circle | Best Screenplay | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Adapted Screenplay | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | ICS Award | International Cinephile Society Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | IOMA | Italian Online Movie Awards (IOMA) | Best Adapted Screenplay (Miglior sceneggiatura non originale) | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Motion Picture of the Year | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Achievement in Directing | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | ALFS Award | London Critics Circle Film Awards | Director of the Year | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | ALFS Award | London Critics Circle Film Awards | Screenwriter of the Year | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Screenplay (Adapted) | True Grit (2010) |
| 2011 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Film | True Grit (2010) |
| 2010 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | Movies for Grownups Award | AARP Movies for Grownups Awards | Best Screenwriter | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | OFCS Award | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | OFCS Award | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Original Screenplay | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | Eddie | American Cinema Editors, USA | Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy or Musical) | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | PFCS Award | Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | True Grit (2010) |
| 2010 | PFCS Award | Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Screenplay – Adaptation | True Grit (2010) |
| 2010 | Robert | Robert Festival | Best American Film (Årets amerikanske film) | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | White Elephant | Russian Guild of Film Critics | Best Foreign Film | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | Critics Choice Award | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay, Original | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | SLFCA Award | St. Louis Film Critics Association, US | Best Adapted Screenplay | True Grit (2010) |
| 2010 | TFCA Award | Toronto Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay, Adapted | True Grit (2010) |
| 2010 | UFCA Award | Utah Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay | True Grit (2010) |
| 2010 | WAFCA Award | Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | True Grit (2010) |
| 2010 | WAFCA Award | Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | True Grit (2010) |
| 2010 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Original Screenplay | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | David | David di Donatello Awards | Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero) | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | DFCS Award | Denver Film Critics Society | Best Director | True Grit (2010) |
| 2010 | DFCS Award | Denver Film Critics Society | Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | True Grit (2010) |
| 2010 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Original Screenplay | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Creative Person of the Decade | |
| 2010 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Adapted Screenplay of the Decade | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2010 | Golden Schmoes | Golden Schmoes Awards | Best Screenplay of the Year | True Grit (2010) |
| 2010 | HFCS Award | Houston Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | True Grit (2010) |
| 2010 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Director | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | ICS Award | International Cinephile Society Awards | Best Editing | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | IOFCP Award | International Online Film Critics’ Poll | Best Director of the Decade | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2010 | IOMA | Italian Online Movie Awards (IOMA) | Best Original Screenplay (Miglior sceneggiatura originale) | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | Sierra Award | Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards | Best Screenplay | True Grit (2010) |
| 2010 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Motion Picture of the Year | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | ALFS Award | London Critics Circle Film Awards | Screenwriter of the Year | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Original Screenplay | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2010 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Screenplay – Original | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2009 | Movies for Grownups Award | AARP Movies for Grownups Awards | Best Screenwriter | Burn After Reading (2008) |
| 2009 | EDA Award | Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Best Writing, Original Screenplay | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2009 | Silver Condor | Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards | Best Foreign Film, Not in the Spanish Language (Mejor Película Extranjera) | Burn After Reading (2008) |
| 2009 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Original Screenplay | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2009 | Bodil | Bodil Awards | Best American Film (Bedste amerikanske film) | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2009 | Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Screenplay, Original | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2009 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2009 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay, Original | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2009 | Cinema Brazil Grand Prize | Cinema Brazil Grand Prize | Best Foreign-Language Film (Melhor Filme Estrangeiro) | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2009 | WAFCA Award | Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay, Original | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2009 | DFWFCA Award | Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2009 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Original Screenplay | Burn After Reading (2008) |
| 2009 | DFCS Award | Denver Film Critics Society | Best Writing, Original Screenplay | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2009 | Edgar | Edgar Allan Poe Awards | Best Motion Picture Screenplay | Burn After Reading (2008) |
| 2009 | Empire Award | Empire Awards, UK | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2009 | Golden Eagle | Golden Eagle Awards, Russia | Best Foreign Film | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2009 | Gotham Independent Film Award | Gotham Awards | Best Feature | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2009 | Guldbagge | Guldbagge Awards | Best Foreign Film (Bästa utländska film) | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2009 | ICP Award | Indiewire Critics’ Poll | Best Director | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2009 | IOFCP Award | International Online Film Critics’ Poll | Best Adapted Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2009 | IOFCP Award | International Online Film Critics’ Poll | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2009 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Screenplay – Original | Burn After Reading (2008) |
| 2008 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Film | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Screenplay – Adapted | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Editing | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Picture | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Movies for Grownups Award | AARP Movies for Grownups Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Movies for Grownups Award | AARP Movies for Grownups Awards | Best Screenwriter | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Saturn Award | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA | Best Writing | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Amanda | Amanda Awards, Norway | Best Foreign Feature Film (Årets utenlandske kinofilm) | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Eddie | American Cinema Editors, USA | Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | White Elephant | Russian Guild of Film Critics | Best Foreign Film | Burn After Reading (2008) |
| 2008 | Critics Choice Award | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Best Writer | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Chlotrudis Award | Chlotrudis Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Chlotrudis Award | Chlotrudis Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Edgar | Edgar Allan Poe Awards | Best Motion Picture Screen Play | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Film Editing | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | HFCS Award | Houston Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | HFCS Award | Houston Film Critics Society Awards | Best Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | INOCA | International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) | Best Adapted Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | INOCA | International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | INOCA | International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) | Best Film Editing | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Silver Ribbon | Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists | Best Non-European Director (Regista del Miglior Film Non-Europeo) | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | IOMA | Italian Online Movie Awards (IOMA) | Best Picture (Miglior film) | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | IOMA | Italian Online Movie Awards (IOMA) | Best Director (Miglior regia) | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | ALFS Award | London Critics Circle Film Awards | Director of the Year | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | ALFS Award | London Critics Circle Film Awards | Screenwriter of the Year | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Achievement in Film Editing | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Director – Motion Picture | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | EDA Award | Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | EDA Award | Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Best Film Editing | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Screenplay, Adapted | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Film Editing | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | Palme d’Or | Cannes Film Festival | No Country for Old Men (2007) | |
| 2007 | SLFCA Award | St. Louis Film Critics Association, US | Best Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | ICP Award | Indiewire Critics’ Poll | Best Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2004 | Palme d’Or | Cannes Film Festival | The Ladykillers (2004) | |
| 2004 | Empire Award | Empire Awards, UK | Best Director | Intolerable Cruelty (2003) |
| 2003 | Silver Condor | Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards | Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera) | The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) |
| 2003 | Robert | Robert Festival | Best American Film (Årets amerikanske film) | The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) |
| 2003 | Bodil | Bodil Awards | Best American Film (Bedste amerikanske film) | The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) |
| 2003 | DVD Premiere Award | DVD Exclusive Awards | Best Audio Commentary, New Release | The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) |
| 2002 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) |
| 2002 | OFCS Award | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) |
| 2002 | OFCS Award | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Original Screenplay | The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) |
| 2002 | PFCS Award | Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Screenplay – Original | The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) |
| 2002 | Nebula Award | Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America | Best Script | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) |
| 2002 | César | César Awards, France | Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger) | The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) |
| 2002 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) |
| 2002 | Edgar | Edgar Allan Poe Awards | Best Motion Picture | The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) |
| 2002 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Screenplay – Motion Picture | The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) |
| 2001 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Screenplay – Original | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) |
| 2001 | Golden Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Screenplay, Adapted | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) |
| 2001 | Palme d’Or | Cannes Film Festival | The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) | |
| 2001 | DFWFCA Award | Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) |
| 2001 | ALFS Award | London Critics Circle Film Awards | Screenwriter of the Year | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) |
| 2001 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) |
| 2000 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) |
| 2000 | Palme d’Or | Cannes Film Festival | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | |
| 2000 | Screen International Award | European Film Awards | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | |
| 2000 | Sierra Award | Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards | Best Screenplay, Original | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) |
| 1999 | Silver Ribbon | Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists | Best Foreign Director (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero) | The Big Lebowski (1998) |
| 1998 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Director | The Big Lebowski (1998) |
| 1998 | Golden Berlin Bear | Berlin International Film Festival | The Big Lebowski (1998) | |
| 1998 | Screen International Award | European Film Awards | The Big Lebowski (1998) | |
| 1997 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Film | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Screenplay – Original | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Editing | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Director | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Film Editing | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | Saturn Award | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA | Best Director | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | Eddie | American Cinema Editors, USA | Best Edited Feature Film | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | Golden Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Screenplay, Original | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | Golden Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Film Editing | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | César | César Awards, France | Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger) | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | DGA Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Director | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Film Editing | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Director – Motion Picture | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Screenplay – Motion Picture | Fargo (1996) |
| 1996 | Palme d’Or | Cannes Film Festival | Fargo (1996) | |
| 1994 | Palme d’Or | Cannes Film Festival | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | |
| 1992 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | Barton Fink (1991) |
| 1992 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay | Barton Fink (1991) |
| 1992 | Silver Ribbon | Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists | Best Foreign Director (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero) | Barton Fink (1991) |
| 1991 | Bronze Horse | Stockholm Film Festival | Barton Fink (1991) | |
| 1991 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay | Miller’s Crossing (1990) |
| 1990 | Golden Seashell | San Sebastián International Film Festival | Miller’s Crossing (1990) | |
| 1990 | Bronze Horse | Stockholm Film Festival | Miller’s Crossing (1990) | |
| 1986 | Edgar | Edgar Allan Poe Awards | Best Motion Picture | Blood Simple. (1984) |
| 1986 | International Fantasy Film Award | Fantasporto | Best Film | Blood Simple. (1984) |
| 1986 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Screenplay | Blood Simple. (1984) |
2nd Place Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | IFJA Award | Indiana Film Journalists Association, US | Best Original Screenplay | Bridge of Spies (2015) |
| 2014 | TFCA Award | Toronto Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | ICS Award | International Cinephile Society Awards | Best Director | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | INOCA | International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) | Best Original Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | NSFC Award | National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA | Best Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | VVFP Award | Village Voice Film Poll | Best Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | ICP Award | Indiewire Critics’ Poll | Best Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2010 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | True Grit (2010) |
| 2010 | UFCA Award | Utah Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | True Grit (2010) |
| 2009 | SDFCS Award | San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | Best Screenplay, Original | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2009 | BSFC Award | Boston Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Film Editing | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2009 | DFWFCA Award | Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay | A Serious Man (2009) |
| 2008 | ICS Award | International Cinephile Society Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | ICS Award | International Cinephile Society Awards | Best Editing | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2008 | NSFC Award | National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Film Editing | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | SDFCS Award | San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | BSFC Award | Boston Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | VVFP Award | Village Voice Film Poll | Best Film | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | DFWFCA Award | Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2007 | Golden Schmoes | Golden Schmoes Awards | Best Screenplay of the Year | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2001 | SEFCA Award | Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards | Best Original Screenplay | The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) |
| 1998 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Original Screenplay | The Big Lebowski (1998) |
| 1997 | Critics Choice Award | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | Fargo (1996) |
| 1997 | Critics Choice Award | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay | Fargo (1996) |
| 1996 | LAFCA Award | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | Fargo (1996) |
| 1988 | NSFC Award | National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA | Best Screenplay | Raising Arizona (1987) |
3rd Place Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | TFCA Award | Toronto Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay, Adapted or Original | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2014 | INOCA | International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) | Best Director | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2013 | ICP Award | Indiewire Critics’ Poll | Best Director | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
| 2010 | NTFCA Award | North Texas Film Critics Association, US | Best Director | True Grit (2010) |
| 2008 | ICP Award | Indiewire Critics’ Poll | Best Screenplay | Burn After Reading (2008) |
| 2007 | ICP Award | Indiewire Critics’ Poll | Best Director | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
| 2002 | Critics Choice Award | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay | The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) |
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