The combination of his brother Joel Cohen's "Cohen Brothers" is almost an invincible golden sign in the United States and even in the world independent film industry, and it is also one of the objects that all actors expect to work with; Ethan Cohen and Joel Cohen are independent directors who are on the fringes of the Industrial Film Model in Hollywood, and the Coen Brothers' works are closely related to the philosophy of death, the plot is not conventional, the plot is well conceived, and the themes they express often emphasize a certain uncertainty of fate They do not completely reject the Hollywood filmmaking system, but they have always insisted on personal branding of the work on the selection, writing and editing of the film, and often exude a rebellion against the mainstream culture; their film works are unique, their plot is not conventional, and often emphasizes a certain uncertainty of fate.
The Coen brothers' films have a magical black style, through intricate and eerie stories, describing the living conditions of marginalized people, expressing the director's philosophical thinking and ancient Greek tragic propositions. The narrative approach, exaggerated and deformed characters and plots that are very different from Hollywood entertainment films create a unique and attractive world of personal imagery.
The Coen brothers, who can be the writer, director and editor of all the films, do three jobs, almost control the entire film production process, plus they are producers, which is a veritable independent filmmaker.
Over the years, how the Coen brothers have maintained their identity as independent filmmakers, the two replied that "just save money, if our films reach the Hollywood-level budget, they may not be able to make at all."
Ethan Cohen was born in 1957 to a jewish intellectual family in Minnesota. His father was an economics professor at the University of Minnesota, his mother was a professor of art history at St. Claude State University, and his older brother was Joel Cohen.
He spent his childhood in the small town of Fargo in Minnesota in the Midwest.
Due to his parents' open-ended education, he developed a keen interest in crime and detective films from an early age.
As a teenager, he began to work with cameras, buying a super 8mm camera with the money he had earned from mowing the lawn and working with the neighbor's children to make some videos that appeared on TV.
Later, Ethan Cohen entered Princeton University after a brief study at the University of Texas to pursue a philosophy major. At the same time, in his free time, he gathered with Joel Cohen to write a screenplay for an independent producer.
In 1984, Ethan Cohen and Joel Cohen spent $800,000 and 2 months on the crime drama Labyrinth of Blood, his first film to direct, starring Francis McDormand and Dan Hadaya. The film caused a sensation at the New York Film Festival and the Dowell Film Festival in France that year, and was called the "film prodigy of the new century" by the American film industry, becoming a landmark film in the history of independent production. These basic characteristics of the film's content and form even influenced many American films in the future, especially the large number of independent productions that appeared after 1990, and became a trend about a decade later.
It won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1st Sundance Film Festival.
In 1987, he directed the feature film Raising Arizona, starring Nicholas Cage, Holly Hunter, and John Goodman.
In 1990, he directed the crime thriller Miller's Crossro, co-starring John Teturro and Gabriel Byrne.
In 1991, he directed the suspense thriller Barton Fink, co-starring John Te toro, John Goodman and Judy Davis, which tells the story of a successful screenwriter, Barton Fink, who fought himself in Hollywood, and won the Palme d'Or at the 44th Cannes Film Festival, for which he won the Best Director Award at the 44th Cannes International Film Festival.
In 1994, he co-directed the comedy "Empire of Money", co-starring Tim Robbins and Paul Newman, with Joel Cohen, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 47th Cannes International Film Festival.
In 1996, he co-directed the thriller suspense film Ice Storm based on a true-life case with Joel Cohen, which was directed by Francis McDormand, William Scott and the Philadelphia Film. H. Messi and Steve Bussemi co-starred and won the Best Original Screenplay Award at the 69th Academy Awards, for which he won the Best Director Award at the 49th Cannes International Film Festival. After that, the film was selected as one of the "100 Great Works in Film History" by Art Film and one of the "100 New Classics of Movies" by Entertainment Weekly in the United States.
In 1998, he directed the suspenseful crime film Murder Green Toe, co-starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman and Julianne Moore, which was nominated for the Golden Bear award at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.
In 2000, he directed the crime film "The Three Kings Of Prison", based on Homer's epic Odyssey, co-starring George Clooney, John Te toro, and Tim Blake Nelson, and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 53rd Cannes International Film Festival and the Best Adapted Screenplay at the 73rd Academy Awards. Later, the film was voted one of the "Top 40" films of the decade by the Sunday Times (British media).
In 2001, he directed the crime drama "The Absent Man", co-starring Billy Bob Thornton, Francis McDormand and James Gandofini, for which he won the Best Director Award at the 54th Cannes International Film Festival.
In 2003, he directed the romantic film "True Love" co-starring George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones. In the same year, he served as a producer of the crime film "Bad Father-in-Law of Christmas".
In 2004, he directed the comedy "Old Woman Killer", co-starring Tom Hanks, Elma Hall and Marlon Waynes, which was shortlisted for the Palme d'Or at the 57th Cannes International Film Festival.
In 2005, he served as the supervising producer and screenwriter of the romantic comedy "Love and Cigarettes", which was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 62nd Venice International Film Festival.
In 2006, he co-directed the short film collection Paris, I Love You with 19 directors, including Alexander Payne and Olivier Assayas, which revolved around 18 short stories in the 20 districts of Paris.
In 2007, he co-produced the 3-minute short film "Everyone Has His Own Film" "Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Festival de Cannes" with 34 other directors.
That same year, he directed the crime thriller "NoBody" based on Cormac McCarthy's novel of the same name, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Baden, and Woody Harrison, which tells a sinister story that takes place in a desert town in the southern United States, for which he won the Best Director Award at the 80th Academy Awards and the Best Director Award at the 61st British Academy Film Awards. After that, the film was selected as one of the "100 New Classics of Movies" by Entertainment Weekly in the United States, and one of the "Top 40" films of the decade by the Sunday Times (British media).
In footage from the Oscar-winning crime film "The Old Man Has Nothing to Rely on," Moss, an old cowboy played by Josh Brolin, is chased by two strange men driving a truck after returning to the crime scene in the evening. It is one of the 21 iconic shots in film history.
In 2008, he directed Stanfield Turner's novel High Secret: The President, the CIA Director and the Agent, a comedy film co-starring George Clooney, Francis McDormand, and Brad Pitt, which tells the story of a gym employee who picks up a top-secret disc lost by a CIA agent and is hunted down by a CIA-hired killer, which was nominated for the 62nd British Academy Film Awards for Best Original Screenplay.
In 2009, he was selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the "50 Greatest Film Directors of Our Time". That same year, he directed the feature film Serious Man, co-starring Michael Stubb, Richard Kander, and Sally Lenick, which tells the story of ordinary people in a Jewish community in the United States in 1967. This is probably the Coen brothers' most mysterious and surreal film to date. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 82nd Academy Awards and Best Original Screenplay at the 63rd British Academy Film Awards.
In 2010, he directed the Western adventure film "Earth Thunder", based on Charles Portis's novel of the same name, which co-starred Jeff Bridges, Hayley Steinfield, and Matt Damon, telling the story of a 14-year-old girl accompanied by two police officers to track down her father's killer in less friendly Indian territory, and was nominated for the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and the 64th British Academy Film Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay. He won the Best Director Award at the 83rd Academy Awards for the film.
In 2012, he wrote the screenplay for the crime film The Thief, co-starring Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, and Alan Rickman, which tells the story of a gallery staff member who intends to take revenge on his boss with a fake painting.
In 2013, he directed Drunken Folk, based on the memoirs of folk singer Dave Van Runck, co-starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan and Garnett Hedland, which tells the story of singer Levin Davis' unremitting struggle during the popularity of American folk songs in the 1960s, and was shortlisted for the Best Original Screenplay Award at the 67th British Academy Film Awards, the Best Original Screenplay Award at the 19th American Radio Film Critics Association Awards, and the Grand Jury Prize at the 66th Cannes International Film Festival. Subsequently, the film was selected as one of the "Top Ten Films of the Year" by The Voice of the Village (American Magazine), one of the "Best Films of the Year" by the Film Critics of the United States, and one of the "Top Ten Films of the Year" by the New York Times.
In 2014, he wrote the screenplay for the biographical war film Indestructible, based on Laura Hillenbrand's best-selling novel Indestructible: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption, which tells the story of Louis Zamberini, an Italian descendant of the United States during World War II; in the same year, he served as a producer for the television series Ice Storm Season One.
In 2015, he was the screenwriter of the historical biopic Bridge of Spies, which was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Award at the 88th Academy Awards and the Best Original Screenplay Award at the 69th British Academy Film Awards. In the same year, he served as chairman of the jury of the 68th Cannes International Film Festival. Secondly, he also served as a producer for the TV series "Ice Storm Season 2".
In 2016, he directed the feature film "Long Live Caesar", co-starring Josh Brolin, George Clooney and Ralph Fiennes, which tells the story of producer Eddie solving various strange problems for a troubled star in the crew.
In 2017, he worked as a screenwriter for the crime mystery film "Mystery Town Murder", which co-starred Matt Damon, Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac, telling the story of when the family suffered serious violations, the originally beloved members accidentally turned against each other, and blackmail, revenge and betrayal also followed. In the same year, he served as a producer for the TV series Ice Storm Season 3.
In 2018, he directed and wrote the Western drama film The Ballad of Buster Scruges, a western drama film composed of six short films on western themes, co-starring Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco and Liam Neeson, for which he won the Best Screenplay Award at the 75th Venice International Film Festival.
In 2019, he worked as a screenwriter for the crime comedy film Jesus Swing, which was written and directed by John Tetoro.
In 2020, he served as a producer for the TV series "Ice Storm Season 4".
Joel Coen (born November 29, 1954) was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. American director, screenwriter and producer.
Ethan Coen (born September 21, 1957) was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. American director, screenwriter, producer.
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