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Brother of Joel Coen. Works so closely with his brother Joel Coen that the two of them have been jokingly referred to as "The Two-Headed Director". Ranked #88 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List with brother Joel Coen. They had been ranked #92 in 2002. He and brother Joel Coen have had final cut on all of their films since Blood Simple. (1984), their debut film. Has used the character name of Marva Munson in both of his past two films. First, in Intolerable Cruelty (2003) (Judge Marva Munson) and secondly, in The Ladykillers (2004) (Marva Munson). As of 2008 joined (along with his brother Joel 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), Billy Wilder for The Apartment (1960) and Leo McCarey for Going My Way (1944). James Cameron also won three Oscars for Titanic (1997) but they were for directing, producing and editing. The first Coen brothers film where both he and brother Joel Coen are given directing and producing credits was The Ladykillers (2004). They have shared these duties on all of their films, but Joel has always been listed as director and Ethan as producer. At Princeton, tried to explain a missed deadline by saying that he had lost one of his arms during a hunting accident. His mother, Rena Neumann Coen, died of kidney disease in 2001.