Joel Coen Biography
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Adopted a baby named Pedro.

Works so closely with his brother Ethan Coen that the two of them have been jokingly referred to as "The Two-Headed Director".

He and brother Ethan Coen have had final cut on all of their films since Blood Simple. (1984), their debut film.

Brother-in-law of Tricia Cooke.

Often has a scene that takes place in dark areas with a sense of dark humor. In The Big Lebowski (1998), The Dude talks to Jeffery Lebowski in a dark room with fire; In O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Devil's henchmen capture Pete with thunder in the background; In Intolerable Cruelty (2003), Miles meets with Myerson in the dark room with only a glare of light showing Myerson's face; In Fargo (1996), Shep starts beating up Carl in a dim-lighted room.

Resides in New York City with his family.

In his childhood, he saved money from mowing lawns to buy a Super-8 camera.

As of 2008 joined (along with his brother Ethan Coen) the prestigious group of individuals to have won Oscars for writing, directing and producing in the same year, for the film No Country for Old Men (2007)'. The others are Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), 'James L Brooks' for Terms of Endearment (1983), Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather: Part II (1974) and Billy Wilder for _Apartment, The (1960). James Cameron also won three Oscars for Titanic (1997) but they were for directing, producing and editing.

Directed 4 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Michael Lerner, Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, and Javier Bardem. McDormand and Bardem won Oscars for their performances in one of his movies.

As of 2009, he is the only person to have ever directed his wife to a Best Actress Oscar (Frances McDormand in Fargo (1996)).

His mother, Rena Neumann Coen, died of kidney disease in 2001.
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