• Joel is married to award-winning actress Frances McDormand. They adopted a son, Pedro.
• Directs movies with his brother, Ethan Coen.
• Joel graduated from Simon's Rock of Bard College in Massachusetts. This is a school where students enter by the age of 16, before they graduate from high school.
• He also studied at the Institute of Film and TV at New York University.

1. Down From The Mountain (2001)

Director Credits

1. Burn After Reading (2008)
2. Paris, Je T'aime (2007)
3. No Country for Old Men (2007)
4. The Ladykillers (2004)
5. Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
6. To The White Sea (2002)
7. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
8. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
9. The Big Lebowski (1998)
10. Fargo (1996)
11. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
12. Barton Fink (1991)
13. Miller's Crossing (1990)
14. Raising Arizona (1987)
15. Blood Simple (1984)

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