1. The brothers generally write, direct and produce their films jointly, although due to DGA regulations, Joel received sole directing credit while Ethan received sole production credit until The Ladykillers, from which point on they would be credited together as directors and producers; they shared editing credits under the alias Roderick Jaynes.
Joel Daniel Coen brothers was born on November 29,1954 and and Ethan Jesse Coen brothers was born on September 21,1957 and were born and raised in St Louis Park, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis.
The Coen brothers have an older sister, Deborah, who is a psychiatrist in Israel.
Edward Coen brothers was an American citizen born in the United States, but grew up in Croydon, London and studied at the London School of Economics.
Together, the Coen brothers remade movies they saw on television, with their neighborhood friend Mark Zimering as the star.
Coen brothers's senior thesis was a 41-page essay, "Two Views of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy", which was supervised by Raymond Geuss.
Coen brothers developed a talent for film editing and met Sam Raimi while assisting Edna Ruth Paul in editing Raimi's first feature film, The Evil Dead.
The Coen brothers wanted to follow their debut with something fast-paced and funny.
The Coen brothers bounced back with the "homespun murder story" Fargo, set in their home state of Minnesota.
Ethan Coen brothers wrote the one-act comedy Talking Cure, which was produced on Broadway in 2011 as part of Relatively Speaking, an anthology of three one-act plays by Coen brothers, Elaine May, and Woody Allen.
In 2011, the Coen brothers won the $1 million Dan David Prize for their contribution to cinema and society.
The 2022 Cannes Film Festival had a special screening of Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind, an archival documentary film directed solely by Ethan Coen brothers and edited by his wife Tricia Cooke.
In 2022, it was announced that Ethan Coen brothers would be directing Drive-Away Dolls for Focus Features and Working Title from a script he co-wrote with Cooke.
Since 2004 they have been able to share the director credit and the Coen brothers have become only the third duo to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.