Read and Download the Coen Brothers' Screenplays

Embrace your weird and wild side. 

Joel Daniel Coen and Ethan Jesse Coen, or the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers who tend to switch up genres, but love crime, colorful characters, and trope subversion. Their most acclaimed works include Raising Arizona (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), No Country for Old Men (2007), True Grit (2010), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018).

They have been nominated for 13 Academy Awards together, and individually for one award each, winning Best Original Screenplay for Fargo and Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay for No Country for Old Men. They also won the Palme d'Or for Barton Fink.

Check out their work below and take as much inspiration as you can. 

Read and Download the Coen Brothers' Screenplays

Screenplay by Joel and Ethan Coen

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Screenplay by Joel and Ethan Coen

The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

Screenplay by Joel and Ethan Coen

Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

Screenplay by Joel and Ethan Coen

The Ladykillers (2004)

Screenplay by Joel and Ethan Coen

No Country for Old Men (2007)

Screenplay by Joel and Ethan Coen

Burn After Reading (2008)

Screenplay by Joel and Ethan Coen

A Serious Man (2009)

Screenplay by Joel and Ethan Coen

True Grit (2010)

Screenplay by Joel and Ethan Coen

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Screenplay by Joel and Ethan Coen

Bridge of Spies (2014)

Screenplay by Matt Charman, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen

Unbroken (2014)

Screenplay by Joel and Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson

Hail, Caesar! (2016)

Screenplay by Joel and Ethan Coen

Suburbicon (2017)

Screenplay by Joel and Ethan Coen

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

Screenplay by Joel and Ethan Coen

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