Joel David Coen was born November 29, 1954 and Ethan Jesse Coen was born September 21, 1957 in St. Louis Park of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The brothers are famously known as the Coen Brothers for writing and directing films. Producing and directing films start at a young age when Joel saved money up from cutting neighbours lawns to purchase a Vivitar Super 8 camera. The brothers together starting remaking movies they saw on television with a childhood friend.
The Coen Brothers both graduated from St. Louis Park high School in 1973 and 1976 and went on to study and graduate at Bard College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Joel then went on to study in the undergraduate film program at New York University where he spent four years of his life, whereas Ethan went on to study philosophy at Princeton University in 1979.
After the brothers completed all their studies, Joel worked as a production assistant on a mix of industrial films and music videos before the brothers got together in 1984 and wrote and directed 'Blood Simple'. After release the film gained a lot of acknowledgement and won awards for Joel's direction at both Sundance and Independent Spirit awards. They went on to be nominated for thirteen Academy Awards and won four, including: two Oscars for screen-writing, one for Best Director(s) and one for Best Picture.
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