Joel Coen

Eighteen directing records stand to Joel Coen in the catalogue, six of them carrying his name alone, Blood Simple and Fargo among those. The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men and True Grit are signed jointly with his brother Ethan, and all twelve of Ethan's records here are shared with him. For many years the sources named the two as one, Joel and Ethan Coen. Their work is film-literate and ranges across genres like a magpie, and the source holds that they went from cult independents to more than one Oscar while declining to insist their films mattered. O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a chain-gang picaresque full of invention, and on that same account it was less loved than the others.