Joel Coen is an American filmmaker who together with his brother, Ethan Coen, forms the well-known and successful filmmaker duo the Coen brothers. The brothers who have been making films since around mid-1980s were involved in all the aspects of film making from the beginning; however, till 2003, Joel Coen was solely credited as the director of the movie while Ethan Coen was named the producer. Since the 2004 film, The Ladykillers, the brothers have jointly shared the director and producer credits. The brothers also share the writing credits for the films and have edited a lot of their work together under the pseudonym Roderick Jaynes. The brothers’ most famous works include Fargo, Barton Fink, No Country for Old Men, The Man Who Wasn't There, True Grit, Inside Llewyn Davis, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Apart from these, they have written screenplays of some films which they have neither produced nor directed. These include Angelina Jolie's Unbroken and Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies. The brothers have received a number of awards for their films in the writing and direction category. In 2021, Joel Coen released his first solo film titled The Tragedy of Macbeth which received positive reviews and appreciations.