Joel Coen

Joel Coen b. 1954, St. Louis Park, Minnesota. 

Joel Coen is an Academy Award winning filmmaker. He and his brother Ethan have made 18 films together including No Country For Old Men, Fargo, Blood Simple, True Grit, The Big Lebowski, A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis, Raising Arizona, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, among others. They have won four Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Original and Adapted Screenplay. Other awards include the National Board of Review, Golden Globes, BAFTA, WGA, and DGA. At Cannes they have won Best Director three times, the Grand Prix, and the Palme D'Or. The Tragedy of Macbeth is Joel's 19th feature film and his solo directorial debut.