Joel and Ethan Coen at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015

This is the list of awards and nominations received by the Coen brothers (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen).

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen have received numerous accolades including four Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Directors Guild of America Award, three Critics' Choice Awards, and four Independent Spirit Awards as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards.

Together they have each been nominated for a total of fourteen Academy Awards (twice under their alias “Roderick Jaynes”) and have won four, including two for screenwriting (Best Original Screenplay for Fargo and Best Adapted Screenplay for No Country for Old Men), one for Best Director (No Country for Old Men), and one for Best Picture (No Country for Old Men). Twelve of their nominations were joint, but each received an individual nomination for Fargo (Joel for Best Director and Ethan for Best Picture) – thus the brothers have fifteen combined nominations.

They are two of only eleven filmmakers with three Oscars for the same film. The others are James L. Brooks for Terms of Endearment (1983), James Cameron for Titanic (1997), Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather Part II (1974), Alejandro G. Iñárritu for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Billy Wilder for The Apartment (1960), Alfonso Cuarón for Roma, Bong Joon-ho for Parasite (Cuarón and Bong's films both won Best International Feature Film) and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).

Major associations

Academy Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1996 Best Picture (Ethan) Fargo Nominated [1]
Best Director (Joel) Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Won
Best Film Editing (as Roderick Jaynes) Nominated
2000 Best Adapted Screenplay O Brother, Where Art Thou? Nominated [2]
2007 Best Picture No Country for Old Men Won [3]
Best Director Won
Best Adapted Screenplay Won
Best Film Editing (as Roderick Jaynes) Nominated
2009 Best Picture A Serious Man Nominated [4]
Best Original Screenplay Nominated
2010 Best Picture True Grit Nominated [5]
Best Director Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated
2015 Best Original Screenplay Bridge of Spies Nominated [6]
2018 Best Adapted Screenplay The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Nominated [7]

BAFTA Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1996 Best Film (Ethan) Fargo Nominated [8]
Best Direction (Joel) Won
Best Original Screenplay Nominated
Best Editing (as Roderick Jaynes) Nominated
2000 Best Original Screenplay O Brother, Where Art Thou? Nominated [9]
2007 Best Film No Country for Old Men Nominated [10]
Best Direction Won
Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated
Best Editing (as Roderick Jaynes) Nominated
2008 Best Original Screenplay Burn After Reading Nominated [11]
2009 Best Original Screenplay A Serious Man Nominated [12]
2010 Best Film True Grit Nominated [13]
Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated
2013 Best Original Screenplay Inside Llewyn Davis Nominated [14]
2015 Bridge of Spies Nominated [15]

Emmy Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2016 Outstanding Limited Series Fargo (season 2) Nominated [16]
2017 Fargo (season 3) Nominated [17]

Golden Globe Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1996 Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Ethan) Fargo Nominated [18]
Best Director (Joel) Nominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
2000 Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Ethan) O Brother, Where Art Thou? Nominated [19]
2001 Best Motion Picture – Drama The Man Who Wasn't There Nominated [20]
Best Screenplay Nominated
2007 Best Motion Picture – Drama No Country for Old Men Nominated [21]
Best Director Nominated
Best Screenplay Won
2008 Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Burn After Reading Nominated [22]
2013 Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Inside Llewyn Davis Nominated [23]
Best Original Song "Please Mr. Kennedy", Inside Llewyn Davis Nominated

Guild awards

Directors Guild of America Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1996 Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Fargo (Joel) Nominated
2007 No Country for Old Men Won

Producers Guild of America Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2007 Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures No Country for Old Men Won
2010 True Grit Nominated
2014 Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television Fargo Won
2016 Won
2018 Nominated

Writers Guild of America Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1996 Best Original Screenplay Fargo Won
2001 The Man Who Wasn't There Nominated
2007 Best Adapted Screenplay No Country for Old Men Won
2008 Best Original Screenplay Burn After Reading Nominated
2010 Best Adapted Screenplay True Grit Nominated
2011 Best Original Screenplay A Serious Man Nominated
2015 Bridge of Spies Nominated

Miscellaneous accolades

Critics Choice Movie Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1996 Best Picture (Ethan) Fargo Won
Best Director (Joel) Nominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
2001 Best Picture (Ethan) The Man Who Wasn't There Nominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
2007 Best Picture No Country for Old Men Won
Best Director Won
Best Screenplay Nominated
2008 Best Comedy Burn After Reading Nominated
2009 Best Picture A Serious Man Nominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
2010 Best Picture True Grit Nominated
Best Director Nominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
2013 Best Picture Inside Llewyn Davis Nominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
2016 Best Comedy Hail, Caesar! Nominated

Independent Spirit Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1985 Best Director (Joel) Blood Simple Won
Best Screenplay Nominated
1996 Best Director (Joel) Fargo Won
Best Screenplay Won
2009 A Serious Man Best Director Nominated
Robert Altman Award Won
2013 Inside Llewyn Davis Best Feature Nominated

Saturn Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1996 Best Director (Joel) Fargo Nominated
Best Action or Adventure Film Won
2001 Best Action or Adventure Film The Man Who Wasn't There Nominated
2007 Best Action or Adventure Film No Country for Old Men Nominated
Best Writing Nominated
2010 Best Action or Adventure Film True Grit Nominated
2013 Best Independent Film Inside Llewyn Davis Nominated
Best Writing Nominated

Festival awards

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Cannes Film Festival

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1991 Palme d'Or Barton Fink Won
Best Director (Joel Coen) Won
1994 Palme d'Or The Hudsucker Proxy Nominated
1996 Palme d'Or Fargo Nominated
Best Director (Joel Coen) Won
2000 Palme d'Or O Brother, Where Art Thou? Nominated
2001 Palme d'Or The Man Who Wasn't There Nominated
Best Director (Joel Coen) Won
2004 Palme d'Or The Ladykillers Nominated
2007 Palme d'Or No Country for Old Men Nominated
2013 Cannes Grand Prix Inside Llewyn Davis Won

Venice Film Festival

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2018 Golden Osella for Best Screenplay The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Won

Critics associations

National Board of Review

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1996 Best Director Fargo Won
2007 Best Film No Country for Old Men Won
Best Adapted Screenplay Won
2009 Best Original Screenplay A Serious Man Won
2013 Best Original Screenplay Inside Llewyn Davis Won

National Society of Film Critics

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1988 Best Screenplay Raising Arizona Nominated
2007 Best Director No Country for Old Men Nominated
2009 Best Screenplay A Serious Man Won
2013 Best Film Inside Llewyn Davis Won
Best Director Won
Best Screenplay Won

New York Film Critics Circle

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2007 Best Director No Country for Old Men Won
Best Screenplay Won

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1996 Best Director Fargo Won
Best Screenplay Won

London Film Critics Circle

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1996 Director of the Year Fargo Won
Screenwriter of the Year Won
2000 Screenwriter of the Year O Brother, Where Art Thou? Nominated
2001 The Man Who Wasn't There Won
2007 Director of the Year No Country for Old Men Nominated
Screenwriter of the Year Nominated
2010 Director of the Year True Grit Nominated
Screenwriter of the Year Nominated
2013 Screenwriter of the Year Inside Llewyn Davis Won

Chicago Film Critics Association

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1991 Best Screenplay Miller's Crossing Nominated
1992 Best Director Barton Fink Nominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
1997 Best Director Fargo Won
Best Screenplay Won
2007 Best Director No Country for Old Men Won
Best Adapted Screenplay Won
2009 Best Director A Serious Man Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Nominated
2010 Best Adapted Screenplay True Grit Nominated
2013 Best Director Inside Llewyn Davis Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Nominated
2015 Best Original Screenplay Bridge of Spies Nominated

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