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Ethan Coen

Highest Rated: 97% Down From the Mountain (2001)

Lowest Rated: 17% Gambit (2012)

Birthday: Sep 21, 1957

Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Along with director, co-writer and brother Joel, writer-producer Ethan Coen helmed a series of stylish, irreverent and cinema-savvy movies that charmed critics while thrilling an initially small, but devoted fan base.Though they evinced a powerful fascination with film genres - particularly screwball comedy and film noir - the Coen Brothers earned a great deal of respect from the Hollywood community despite their penchant to work outside the system. These self-conscious movies-within-movies possessed humorous camera movements, richly textured landscapes, and powerhouse performers spouting beautifully artificial dialogue. While some complained that the brothers were nothing more than slick stylists, the Coens, nonetheless, achieved a rare feat in entertainment: making the movies they wanted with little-to-no outside interference.

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Highest rated movies

97% 86% Down From the Mountain
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95% 92% Fargo
Watchlist 95% 85% True Grit Watchlist
94% 88% Blood Simple
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93% 86% No Country for Old Men
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93% 90% Miller's Crossing
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92% 74% Inside Llewyn Davis
Watchlist 91% 87% Bridge of Spies Watchlist
91% 85% Raising Arizona
Watchlist 89% 78% The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Watchlist
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Ethan Coen

Ethan Coen PARIS, JE T'AIME, segment: Tuileries, aka 1st arrondissement, directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, directors Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, on set, 2006. ©First Look Pictures INTOLERABLE CRUELTY, Screenwriter Ethan Coen, producer Brian Grazer, director Joel Coen on the set, 2003, (c) Universal INTOLERABLE CRUELTY, George Clooney, Director Ethan Coen, Catherine Zeta-Jones, on set, 2003, (c) Universal A SERIOUS MAN, director Ethan Coen, on set, 2009. ph: Wilson Webb/©Focus Features INTOLERABLE CRUELTY, Producer Brian Grazer, Director Ethan Coen, on set, 2003, (c) Universal HAIL, CAESAR!, from left: director Joel Coen, director Ethan Coen, Josh Brolin, George Clooney, on set, 2016. ph: Alison Cohen Rosa/© Universal Pictures HAIL, CAESAR!, from left: directors Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, on set, 2016. ph: Alison Cohen Rosa/© Universal Pictures HAIL, CAESAR!, director Joel Coen (left), director Ethan Coen (yellow shirt), Channing Tatum (center, profile), on set, 2016. ph: Alison Cohen Rosa/© Universal Pictures THE LADYKILLERS, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2004, (c) Touchstone View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
63% 36% Drive-Away Dolls Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		$4.9M 2024
74% 67% Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind Director - 2022
89% 78% The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 2018
27% 26% Suburbicon Screenwriter $5.7M 2017
86% 44% Hail, Caesar! Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		$30.0M 2016
91% 87% Bridge of Spies Screenwriter $72.3M 2015
52% 70% Unbroken Screenwriter $115.6M 2014
No Score Yet 83% Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis Unknown (Character) - 2013
92% 74% Inside Llewyn Davis Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		$13.2M 2013
17% 23% Gambit Screenwriter - 2012
95% 85% True Grit Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		$171.0M 2010
89% 68% A Serious Man Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		$9.2M 2009
78% 65% Burn After Reading Director,
Writer,
Producer,
Film Editing 		$60.3M 2008
93% 86% No Country for Old Men Director,
Writer,
Producer 		$74.3M 2007
86% 84% Paris, je t'aime Director,
Writer 		$4.9M 2006
53% 56% Romance & Cigarettes Executive Producer $540.1K 2005
54% 43% The Ladykillers Producer,
Screenwriter 		$39.7M 2004
78% 75% Bad Santa Executive Producer $60.1M 2003
76% 48% Intolerable Cruelty Screenwriter,
Producer 		$35.1M 2003
81% 85% The Man Who Wasn't There Writer,
Producer 		$7.5M 2001
97% 86% Down From the Mountain Self,
Executive Producer 		$301.4K 2001
78% 89% O Brother, Where Art Thou? Writer,
Producer,
Film Editing 		$45.5M 2000
80% 93% The Big Lebowski Writer,
Producer,
Film Editing 		$17.4M 1998
20% 37% The Naked Man Writer - 1998
95% 92% Fargo Writer,
Producer,
Film Editing 		$24.5M 1996
63% 79% The Hudsucker Proxy Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		$2.1M 1994
89% 89% Barton Fink Writer,
Producer,
Film Editing 		$5.7M 1991
93% 90% Miller's Crossing Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		$4.7M 1990
91% 85% Raising Arizona Writer,
Producer 		$21.1M 1987
94% 88% Blood Simple Screenwriter,
Producer,
Film Editing 		$1.7M 1984

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93% 85% Fargo Executive Producer 2014-2015 2017 2020 2023-2024