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Ethan Coen Jeff Bridges as The Dude, Steve Buscemi as Donny, and John Goodman as Walter Sobchak sit together in a bowling alley scene from The Big Lebowski. Joel and Ethan Coen stand together in tuxedos, each holding an Academy Award trophy, in front of a blue backdrop with Oscar and ABC logos. Ethan and Joel Coen, both in dark suits and glasses, stand together on a red carpet with photographers in the background at the True Grit premiere during the Berlin Film Festival. Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men walks beside a police car, holding a captive bolt pistol and air tank, wearing a black jacket and brown shirt. True Grit
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Ethan Coen

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    …credited as the director, and Ethan Coen (b. September 21, 1958, St. Louis Park) was nominally the producer, with the brothers sharing screenwriting credit and using the pseudonym “Roderick Jaynes” for editing.

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    …credited as the director, and Ethan Coen (b. September 21, 1958, St. Louis Park) was nominally the producer, with the brothers sharing screenwriting credit and using the pseudonym “Roderick Jaynes” for editing.

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