Joel Coen is an award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and the elder half of the writer-director duo popularly known as Coen Brothers. Along with his younger brother Ethan Coen, he has conceived some of the most iconic American films of the past three decades, and the celebrated duo has 14 Academy Award nominations and 4 wins between them. Coen made his film debut with the 1984 neo-noir crime film Blood Simple, which he directed, co-wrote and co-produced with his brother. Though only a moderate box office success, Blood Simple received rave reviews from all quarters upon its release, and has since been featured in American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Thrills list. Though he continued to garner critical acclaim and award nominations through films like Raising Arizona (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990) and Barton Fink (1991), it was the 1996 black comedy crime film Fargo that earned Coen international acclaim including the top directorial award at the Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. The Coen Brothers won their maiden Academy Award for Best Screenplay with Fargo that year. Coen subsequently directed (and co-wrote) the cult classic comedy The Big Lebowski (1998), the crime comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and the romantic comedy Intolerable Cruelty (2003), which were all well-received by both the audience and the critics alike. In 2007, he co-wrote and co-directed the neo-western neo-noir thriller film No Country for Old Men, which went on to win 4 Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars for the duo. The black comedy film Burn After Reading (2008), the western crime thriller True Grit (2010) and the black comedy-drama film Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) are some of Joel Coen's recent directorial outings, all of which he co-directed with Ethan Coen. Other notable film credits as a screenwriter include The Ladykillers (also director, 2004), Gambit (2012), Unbroken (2014), Steven Spielberg's Cold War era historical drama legal thriller Bridge of Spies (2015) and the crime comedy film Suburbicon (2017).