...and Ethan Coen, who won the WGA Award for best adapted screenplay last year for "No Country for Old Men," were nominated in the original category for their CIA comedy "Burn After Reading" on Wednesday as the WGA announced its 2009 film nominees. Their...
...SCREENPLAY Burn After Reading, Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen Milk, Written by Dustin Lance Black Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Written by Woody Allen The Visitor, Written by Tom McCarthy The Wrestler, Written by Robert Siegel ADAPTED SCREENPLAY The...
...Brothers films. Joel Coen notes, We actually wrote this script around the same time we were adapting No Country for Old Men. Ethan Coen adds, We came up with the idea thinking about different parts we wanted to write for actors that we know who we...
...wasn’t all that crazy about "Burn After Reading." It was ok, but with the cast and filmmakers (Joel and Ethan Coen), I expected more. Still, just the cast alone – including Brad Pitt, George Clooney, and Frances McDormand – is worth seeing. Read my...
...when they lighten up, Joel and Ethan Coen can rack up a body count. The Coens follow their grim Academy Award champ "No Country for Old Men" with this all-star espionage romp featuring past collaborators George Clooney, Frances McDormand and Richard...
...latest from Joel and Ethan Coen is a sneaky spy movie -- one that plays like lightweight comedy until the Coens punch you in the gut, pull a black bag over your head and shuttle you to parts unknown. Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt play employees at a...
Background
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are four-time Academy Award winning American filmmakers. For more than twenty years, the pair have written and directed numerous successful films, ranging from screwball comedies (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, The Hudsucker Proxy) to film noir (Miller's Crossing, Blood Simple, The Man Who Wasn't There), to movies where genres blur together (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and Barton Fink). The brothers write, direct and produce their films jointly, although until recently Joel received sole credit for directing and Ethan for producing. They often alternate top billing for their screenplays while sharing film credits for editor under the alias Roderick Jaynes. They are known in the film business as "the two-headed director", as they share such a similar vision of what their films are to be that actors say that they can approach either brother with a question and get the same answer.
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