| Joel Cohen | |
| Birth Name: | Joel Edmund Cohen |
| Birth Date: | 23 August 1963 |
| Birth Place: | Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | State University of New York |
| Occupation: | Screenwriter |
| Years Active: | 1983–present |
Joel Edmund Cohen (born August 23, 1963) is an American screenwriter who has worked on projects such as the movies Cheaper by the Dozen, Toy Story,[1] Money Talks[2] and .[3] He frequently works with his writing partner Alec Sokolow.[4]
Along with Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Joe Ranft, and Sokolow, Cohen was nominated in 1996 for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for his work on Toy Story.[5] Beyond writing, Cohen and Sokolow jointly directed Monster Mash: The Movie (1995) and executively produced (2008).