# List of awards and nominations received by the Coen brothers

This is the list of awards and nominations received by the Coen brothers (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen).
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen have received numerous accolades including four Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Directors Guild of America Award, three Critics' Choice Awards, and four Independent Spirit Awards as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Together they have each been nominated for a total of fourteen Academy Awards (twice under their alias “Roderick Jaynes”) and have won four, including two for screenwriting (Best Original Screenplay for Fargo and Best Adapted Screenplay for No Country for Old Men), one for Best Director (No Country for Old Men), and one for Best Picture (No Country for Old Men). Twelve of their nominations were joint, but each received an individual nomination for Fargo (Joel for Best Director and Ethan for Best Picture) – thus the brothers have fifteen combined nominations.
They are two of only eleven filmmakers with three Oscars for the same film. The others are James L. Brooks for Terms of Endearment (1983), James Cameron for Titanic (1997), Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather Part II (1974), Alejandro G. Iñárritu for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Billy Wilder for The Apartment (1960), Alfonso Cuarón for Roma, Bong Joon-ho for Parasite (Cuarón and Bong's films both won Best International Feature Film) and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).

## Major associations
### Academy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1997 | Best Picture (Ethan) | Fargo | Nominated |
| 1997 | Best Director (Joel) | Fargo | Nominated |
| 1997 | Best Original Screenplay | Fargo | Won |
| 1997 | Best Film Editing (as Roderick Jaynes) | Fargo | Nominated |
| 2001 | Best Adapted Screenplay | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Picture | No Country for Old Men | Won |
| 2008 | Best Director | No Country for Old Men | Won |
| 2008 | Best Adapted Screenplay | No Country for Old Men | Won |
| 2008 | Best Film Editing (as Roderick Jaynes) | No Country for Old Men | Nominated |
| 2010 | Best Picture | A Serious Man | Nominated |
| 2010 | Best Original Screenplay | A Serious Man | Nominated |
| 2011 | Best Picture | True Grit | Nominated |
| 2011 | Best Director | True Grit | Nominated |
| 2011 | Best Adapted Screenplay | True Grit | Nominated |
| 2016 | Best Original Screenplay | Bridge of Spies | Nominated |
| 2019 | Best Adapted Screenplay | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Nominated |

### BAFTA Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1997 | Best Film (Ethan) | Fargo | Nominated |
| 1997 | Best Direction (Joel) | Fargo | Won |
| 1997 | Best Original Screenplay | Fargo | Nominated |
| 1997 | Best Editing (as Roderick Jaynes) | Fargo | Nominated |
| 2001 | Best Original Screenplay | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Film | No Country for Old Men | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Direction | No Country for Old Men | Won |
| 2008 | Best Adapted Screenplay | No Country for Old Men | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Editing (as Roderick Jaynes) | No Country for Old Men | Nominated |
| 2009 | Best Original Screenplay | Burn After Reading | Nominated |
| 2010 | Best Original Screenplay | A Serious Man | Nominated |
| 2011 | Best Film | True Grit | Nominated |
| 2011 | Best Adapted Screenplay | True Grit | Nominated |
| 2014 | Best Original Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis | Nominated |
| 2016 | Best Original Screenplay | Bridge of Spies | Nominated |

### Emmy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2016 | Outstanding Limited Series | Fargo (season 2) | Nominated |
| 2017 | Outstanding Limited Series | Fargo (season 3) | Nominated |
| 2024 | Outstanding Limited Series | Fargo (season 5) | Nominated |

### Golden Globe Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1997 | Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Ethan) | Fargo | Nominated |
| 1997 | Best Director (Joel) | Fargo | Nominated |
| 1997 | Best Screenplay | Fargo | Nominated |
| 2001 | Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Ethan) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Nominated |
| 2002 | Best Motion Picture – Drama | The Man Who Wasn't There | Nominated |
| 2002 | Best Screenplay | The Man Who Wasn't There | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Motion Picture – Drama | No Country for Old Men | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Director | No Country for Old Men | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Screenplay | No Country for Old Men | Won |
| 2009 | Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Burn After Reading | Nominated |
| 2014 | Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Inside Llewyn Davis | Nominated |
| 2014 | Best Original Song | "Please Mr. Kennedy", Inside Llewyn Davis | Nominated |

## Guild awards
### Directors Guild of America Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 1996 | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Fargo (Joel) | Nominated | |
| 2007 | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | No Country for Old Men | Won | |

### Producers Guild of America Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2007 | Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures | No Country for Old Men | Won |
| 2010 | Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures | True Grit | Nominated |
| 2014 | Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television | Fargo | Won |
| 2016 | Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television | Fargo | Won |
| 2018 | Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television | Fargo | Nominated |

### Writers Guild of America Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1996 | Best Original Screenplay | Fargo | Won |
| 2001 | Best Original Screenplay | The Man Who Wasn't There | Nominated |
| 2007 | Best Adapted Screenplay | No Country for Old Men | Won |
| 2008 | Best Original Screenplay | Burn After Reading | Nominated |
| 2010 | Best Adapted Screenplay | True Grit | Nominated |
| 2011 | Best Original Screenplay | A Serious Man | Nominated |
| 2015 | Best Original Screenplay | Bridge of Spies | Nominated |

## Miscellaneous accolades
### Critics Choice Movie Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1996 | Best Picture (Ethan) | Fargo | Won |
| 1996 | Best Director (Joel) | Fargo | Nominated |
| 1996 | Best Screenplay | Fargo | Nominated |
| 2001 | Best Picture (Ethan) | The Man Who Wasn't There | Nominated |
| 2001 | Best Screenplay | The Man Who Wasn't There | Nominated |
| 2007 | Best Picture | No Country for Old Men | Won |
| 2007 | Best Director | No Country for Old Men | Won |
| 2007 | Best Screenplay | No Country for Old Men | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Comedy | Burn After Reading | Nominated |
| 2009 | Best Picture | A Serious Man | Nominated |
| 2009 | Best Screenplay | A Serious Man | Nominated |
| 2010 | Best Picture | True Grit | Nominated |
| 2010 | Best Director | True Grit | Nominated |
| 2010 | Best Screenplay | True Grit | Nominated |
| 2013 | Best Picture | Inside Llewyn Davis | Nominated |
| 2013 | Best Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis | Nominated |
| 2016 | Best Comedy | Hail, Caesar! | Nominated |

### Independent Spirit Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1985 | Best Director (Joel) | Blood Simple | Won |
| 1985 | Best Screenplay | Blood Simple | Nominated |
| 1996 | Best Director (Joel) | Fargo | Won |
| 1996 | Best Screenplay | Fargo | Won |
| 2009 | A Serious Man | Best Director | Nominated |
| 2009 | A Serious Man | Robert Altman Award | Won |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Best Feature | Nominated |

### Saturn Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1996 | Best Director (Joel) | Fargo | Nominated |
| 1996 | Best Action or Adventure Film | Fargo | Won |
| 2001 | Best Action or Adventure Film | The Man Who Wasn't There | Nominated |
| 2007 | Best Action or Adventure Film | No Country for Old Men | Nominated |
| 2007 | Best Writing | No Country for Old Men | Nominated |
| 2010 | Best Action or Adventure Film | True Grit | Nominated |
| 2013 | Best Independent Film | Inside Llewyn Davis | Nominated |
| 2013 | Best Writing | Inside Llewyn Davis | Nominated |

## Festival awards
### Cannes Film Festival

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1991 | Palme d'Or | Barton Fink | Won |
| 1991 | Best Director (Joel Coen) | Barton Fink | Won |
| 1994 | Palme d'Or | The Hudsucker Proxy | Nominated |
| 1996 | Palme d'Or | Fargo | Nominated |
| 1996 | Best Director (Joel Coen) | Fargo | Won |
| 2000 | Palme d'Or | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Nominated |
| 2001 | Palme d'Or | The Man Who Wasn't There | Nominated |
| 2001 | Best Director (Joel Coen) | The Man Who Wasn't There | Won |
| 2004 | Palme d'Or | The Ladykillers | Nominated |
| 2007 | Palme d'Or | No Country for Old Men | Nominated |
| 2013 | Palme d'Or | Inside Llewyn Davis | Nominated |
| 2013 | Grand Prix | Inside Llewyn Davis | Won |

### Venice Film Festival

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2018 | Golden Lion | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Nominated | |
| 2018 | Golden Osella for Best Screenplay | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Won | |

## Critics associations
### National Board of Review

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1996 | Best Director | Fargo | Won |
| 2007 | Best Film | No Country for Old Men | Won |
| 2007 | Best Adapted Screenplay | No Country for Old Men | Won |
| 2009 | Best Original Screenplay | A Serious Man | Won |
| 2013 | Best Original Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis | Won |

### National Society of Film Critics

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1988 | Best Screenplay | Raising Arizona | Nominated |
| 2007 | Best Director | No Country for Old Men | Nominated |
| 2009 | Best Screenplay | A Serious Man | Won |
| 2013 | Best Film | Inside Llewyn Davis | Won |
| 2013 | Best Director | Inside Llewyn Davis | Won |
| 2013 | Best Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis | Won |

### New York Film Critics Circle

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2007 | Best Director | No Country for Old Men | Won | |
| 2007 | Best Screenplay | No Country for Old Men | Won | |

### Los Angeles Film Critics Association

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 1996 | Best Director | Fargo | Won | |
| 1996 | Best Screenplay | Fargo | Won | |

### London Film Critics Circle

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1996 | Director of the Year | Fargo | Won |
| 1996 | Screenwriter of the Year | Fargo | Won |
| 2000 | Screenwriter of the Year | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Nominated |
| 2001 | Screenwriter of the Year | The Man Who Wasn't There | Won |
| 2007 | Director of the Year | No Country for Old Men | Nominated |
| 2007 | Screenwriter of the Year | No Country for Old Men | Nominated |
| 2010 | Director of the Year | True Grit | Nominated |
| 2010 | Screenwriter of the Year | True Grit | Nominated |
| 2013 | Screenwriter of the Year | Inside Llewyn Davis | Won |

### Chicago Film Critics Association

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1991 | Best Screenplay | Miller's Crossing | Nominated |
| 1992 | Best Director | Barton Fink | Nominated |
| 1992 | Best Screenplay | Barton Fink | Nominated |
| 1997 | Best Director | Fargo | Won |
| 1997 | Best Screenplay | Fargo | Won |
| 2007 | Best Director | No Country for Old Men | Won |
| 2007 | Best Adapted Screenplay | No Country for Old Men | Won |
| 2009 | Best Director | A Serious Man | Nominated |
| 2009 | Best Original Screenplay | A Serious Man | Nominated |
| 2010 | Best Adapted Screenplay | True Grit | Nominated |
| 2013 | Best Director | Inside Llewyn Davis | Nominated |
| 2013 | Best Original Screenplay | Inside Llewyn Davis | Nominated |
| 2015 | Best Original Screenplay | Bridge of Spies | Nominated |