Ethan Coen and Frances McDormand made 4 films together, averaging 7.53, 0.53 above their career marks. The best is Fargo at 8.1.

Films together

1984 to 2008

Average together

7.53

4 rated, weighted 7.53

Lift

+0.53

apart 7.00

Best together

8.1

Fargo

Apart against together+0.53 lift

6.86

7.13

Other pairings

Their other regulars

Ethan Coen with

Apart 7.00Together 7.53

Lift is the average of their films together minus the mean of their two career averages.

Both careers by IMDb ratingEthan CoenFrances McDormandTogether

Dot size shows IMDb votes; lines are rolling five-film averages. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes are left out.

Frances McDormand in the top row

Ethan Coen's regulars

	Blood Simple '84	Raising Arizona '87	Miller's Crossing '90	Barton Fink '91	Fargo '96	The Big Lebowski '98	O Brother, Where … '00	The Man Who Wasn'… '01	Intolerable Cruel… '03	No Country for Ol… '07	Burn After Reading '08	True Grit '10	Inside Llewyn Dav… '13	Hail, Caesar! '16
Frances McDormand
John Goodman

Each column is a film in release order. Filled squares mark who was in it, colored by the film's rating.

Films with Ethan Coen and Frances McDormand

Blood Simple	1984	7.5	115K	Editor, Director, Producer, Writer	as Abby
Raising Arizona	1987	7.3	163K	Director, Producer, Writer	as Dot (not counted)
Fargo	1996	8.1	799K	Director, Writer, Producer, Editor	as Marge Gunderson
The Man Who Wasn't There	2001	7.5	121K	Producer, Director, Editor, Writer	as Doris Crane
Burn After Reading	2008	7.0	381K	Editor, Director, Producer, Writer	as Linda Litzke
Hail, Caesar!	2016	6.3	151K	Producer, Writer, Director, Editor	as C.C. Calhoun (not counted)