Joel Coen

Height:	6'
Birth Notes:	Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Birth Name:	Coen, Joel Daniel
Birth Date:	29 November 1954

Joel Coen Trivia

Has a younger sister named Deborah, who is a psychiatrist.
Resides in New York City with his family.
Only three times in Academy Award history have director-collaborators been nominated for Best Directing Oscars: 'Robert Wise (I)' 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).
Born to Edward Coen, an economist at the University of Minnesota, and his wife Rena, an art historian at St. Cloud State University.
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.

Joel Coen Quotes

[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.
It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow -- that to me is kind of inexplicable.
[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.
['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?"
['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.

Joel Coen Movies

The 69th Annual Academy Awards (1997) as Himself - Winner: Best Original Screenplay & Nominee: Best Director & Best Film Editing
A Serious Man (2009) as ...
(2007-11-16) (1991) as Himself
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) as ...
Barton Fink (1991) as ...
Suburbicon (2012) as ...
The Ladykillers (2004) as ...
The Big Lebowski (1998) as ...
Intolerable Cruelty (2003) as ...
Burn After Reading (2008) as ...
Intolerable Cruelty (2003) as ...
True Grit (2011) as ...
(#1.3) (2005) as Himself
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) as ...
A Serious Man (2009) as ...
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) as ...
Paris, je t'aime (2006) as ...
Burn After Reading (2008) as ...
The Big Lebowski (1998) as ...
Bad Santa (2003) as ...