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Joel Coen

Name: Joel Coen
Full/Alt. name: Roderick Jaynes
Date of Birth: Sunday November 29 1953
Born: St Louis Park (Minnesota)
Nationality: American
Partial Biography: With producer and co-writer Ethan, Joel Coen has been part of the most celebrated brother act in recent entertainment memory. He has helmed a series of stylish, irreverent and cinema-savvy movies that…Full Joel Coen Biography…

Burn After Reading (2008) (for pervasive language, some sexual content and violence)Director, Writer, Producer
No Country For Old Men (2008) 15 (Contains strong bloody violence)Writer, Director, Producer
Romance & Cigarettes (2006) 15 (Contains strong sex references, sex and language)Executive Producer
Fun With Dick and Jane (2006) 12A (Contains one use of strong language)Writer (rewrite)
Bad Santa (2004) 15 (Contains strong language and moderate sex)Executive Producer, Writer (rewrite)
The Ladykillers (2004) 15 (Contains strong language)Director, Producer, Screenplay
Intolerable Cruelty (2003) 12A (Contains moderate sex references and one use of strong language)Director, Screenplay (rewrite)
The Evil Dead (2002) 18 (Contains strong gory violence)editor assistant
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) (for a scene of violence)Director, screenplay, Editor (credited as Roderick Jaynes)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) 12A (for some violence and language)Director, screenplay, Editor

Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award (2001) - The Man Who Wasn't There
Writers Guild of America Award (1997) Best Screenplay Written Directly For the Screen - Fargo
Chicago Film Critics Association Award (1996) Best Screenplay - Fargo
Film Critics Circle of Australia Award (1996) Best Foreign Film in English - Fargo
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award (1996) Best Screenplay - Fargo