List of awards and nominations received by the Coen brothers explained
This is the list of awards and nominations received by the Coen brothers (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen).
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen have received numerous accolades including four Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Directors Guild of America Award, three Critics' Choice Awards, and four Independent Spirit Awards as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Together they have each been nominated for a total of fourteen Academy Awards (twice under their alias “Roderick Jaynes”) and have won four, including two for screenwriting (Best Original Screenplay for Fargo and Best Adapted Screenplay for No Country for Old Men), one for Best Director (No Country for Old Men), and one for Best Picture (No Country for Old Men). Twelve of their nominations were joint, but each received an individual nomination for Fargo (Joel for Best Director and Ethan for Best Picture) – thus the brothers have fifteen combined nominations.
They are two of only eleven filmmakers with three Oscars for the same film. The others are James L. Brooks for Terms of Endearment (1983), James Cameron for Titanic (1997), Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather Part II (1974), Alejandro G. Iñárritu for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), Peter Jackson for (2003), Billy Wilder for The Apartment (1960), Alfonso Cuarón for Roma, Bong Joon-ho for Parasite (Cuarón and Bong's films both won Best International Feature Film) and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).
Major associations
Guild awards
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | class=unsortable | Ref. |
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| 2007 | Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures | No Country for Old Men | | |
| 2010 | True Grit | | |
| 2014 | Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television | Fargo | | |
| 2016 | | |
| 2018 | | |
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Miscellaneous accolades
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | class=unsortable | Ref. |
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| 1985 | Best Director (Joel) | Blood Simple | | |
| Best Screenplay | |
| 1996 | Best Director (Joel) | Fargo | | |
| Best Screenplay | |
| 2009 | A Serious Man | Best Director | | |
| Robert Altman Award | |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Best Feature | | |
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Festival awards
Critics associations
Notes and References
- Web site: 69th Academy Awards. Oscars.org. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: 73rd Academy Awards. Oscars.org. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: 80th Academy Awards. Oscars.org. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: 82nd Academy Awards. Oscars.org. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: 83rd Academy Awards. Oscars.org. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: 88th Academy Awards. Oscars.org. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: 91st Academy Awards. Oscars.org. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: 50th BAFTA Awards. awards.bafta.org. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: 54th BAFTA Awards. awards.bafta.org. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: 61st BAFTA Awards. awards.bafta.org. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: 62nd BAFTA Awards. awards.bafta.org. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: 63rd BAFTA Awards. awards.bafta.org. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: 64th BAFTA Awards. awards.bafta.org. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: 67th BAFTA Awards. awards.bafta.org. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: 69th BAFTA Awards. awards.bafta.org. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: Outstanding Limited Series (2016). Emmys.com. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: Outstanding Limited Series (2017). Emmys.com. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: Golden Globe Award Nominations. Variety. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: Globes toss toga party. Variety. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: A Beautiful Mind tops Golden Globe nominees. Entertainment Weekly. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: Complete list of Golden Globe winners. ABC News. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: List of Golden Globe winners and nominees. CNN. March 16, 2024.
- Web site: Golden Globes 2014: full list of winners. The Guardian. March 16, 2024.
