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Ethan Coen and his brother, Joel Coen, are the directors, writers and producers of "True Grit" (2010).

Ethan Coen has produced and co-written such critically acclaimed films as "Miller's Crossing," "Barton Fink," which won the Palme d'Or (Best Picture), Best Director, and Best Actor (John Turturro) Awards at the 1991 Cannes International Film Festival, and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," which was nominated for two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards (winning one).

One of 1996's most honored films, "Fargo," which he produced and co-wrote, received seven Academy Award nominations and won two, including Best Original Screenplay for Ethan and his brother Joel. Among the other films that he has co-written and produced are "Blood Simple"; "Raising Arizona"; "The Hudsucker Proxy"; "The Big Lebowski"; "The Man Who Wasn't There"; and "Intolerable Cruelty." He co-directed and co-wrote the 2004 comedy "The Ladykillers" with Joel.

Joel and Ethan Coen's 2007 adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's "No Country for Old Men" brought them the Directors Guild of America, BAFTA, and Academy and Awards; the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay; Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay from the New York Film Critics Circle; Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay from the Oscars and the National Board of Review. The film's cast was voted the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, and Javier Bardem won the Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, among other accolades.

Joel and Ethan Coen's film, "Burn After Reading," was nominated for the BAFTA Award and the WGA Award for Best Original Screenplay. Their most recent film, "A Serious Man," received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and for Best Original Screenplay and was also nominated for the BAFTA Award and the WGA Award for Best Original Screenplay.

"Almost an Evening," comprising three short plays by Ethan Coen, was staged in 2008 off-Broadway by Neil Pepe at the Atlantic Theater Company's Stage 2 and then at the Bleecker Street Theater; in 2009, the same director and company staged his three new short plays under the title "Offices."



ETHAN COEN: FACTS

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Age: 54 years old
Birthday: September 21, 1957
Height: 5' 8"
Full Name / Real Name: Ethan Jesse Coen
Birthplace: Minneapolis, MN
Wife: Tricia Cooke (10/2/1990, 2 children)





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ETHAN COEN: TWITTER
May 25, 2012
Just heard #EthanCoen say he walked out of Eyes Wide Shut, went to another movie, returned & discovered that EWS was still running. Awesome.
3 hours ago
I'd love to see Ethan Coen nude
5 hours ago
@Just_Celini Etan. Not #EthanCoen. There's a big difference.
5 hours ago
RT @ripr: Haven't tweeted in a couple years, so here: "When conscience leads you, it's astray; The drunken driver has the right of way." -#EthanCoen
1 day ago
 
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