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Joel Coen averages 7.32, Ethan Coen averages 6.92. Apart that suggests 7.12; together they average 7.33, a lift of +0.21.
Lift is the average of their films together minus the mean of their two career averages.
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2018Dot size shows IMDb votes; lines are rolling five-film averages. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes are left out.
 Blood Simple | 1984 | 7.5 | 115K | Editor, Writer, Director | Writer, Producer, Director, Editor |
| Crimewave | 1985 | 5.5 | 7,587 | Writer | Writer (not counted) |
 Raising Arizona | 1987 | 7.3 | 163K | Director, Writer | Producer, Writer, Director |
 Miller's Crossing | 1990 | 7.7 | 149K | Director, Writer | Producer, Director, Writer |
 Barton Fink | 1991 | 7.6 | 137K | Director, Writer, Editor | Director, Editor, Writer, Producer |
 The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | 7.2 | 91,056 | Director, Writer | Writer, Producer, Director |
 Fargo | 1996 | 8.1 | 799K | Editor, Writer, Director | Editor, Director, Producer, Writer |
 The Big Lebowski | 1998 | 8.1 | 926K | Writer, Editor, Director | Editor, Writer, Producer, Director |
 O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | 7.7 | 356K | Editor, Writer, Director | Director, Producer, Writer, Editor |
 The Man Who Wasn't There | 2001 | 7.5 | 121K | Director, Writer, Editor | Writer, Director, Editor, Producer |
 Intolerable Cruelty | 2003 | 6.3 | 107K | Director, Editor | Producer, Writer, Director, Editor |
 The Ladykillers | 2004 | 6.2 | 113K | Producer, Editor, Writer, Director | Producer, Editor, Writer, Director |
 No Country for Old Men | 2007 | 8.2 | 1.22M | Director, Editor, Writer, Producer | Producer, Writer, Editor, Director |
 Burn After Reading | 2008 | 7.0 | 381K | Producer, Editor, Director, Writer | Director, Writer, Producer, Editor |
 A Serious Man | 2009 | 7.0 | 160K | Editor, Producer, Writer, Director | Writer, Producer, Director, Editor |
 True Grit | 2010 | 7.6 | 380K | Writer, Director, Producer, Editor | Writer, Director, Producer, Editor |
 Gambit | 2012 | 5.7 | 27,043 | Writer | Writer (not counted) |
 Inside Llewyn Davis | 2013 | 7.4 | 173K | Editor, Producer, Director, Writer | Producer, Writer, Director, Editor |
 Unbroken | 2014 | 7.2 | 201K | Writer | Writer (not counted) |
 Bridge of Spies | 2015 | 7.6 | 348K | Writer | Writer (not counted) |
 Hail, Caesar! | 2016 | 6.3 | 151K | Producer, Editor, Writer, Director | Writer, Producer, Director, Editor |
 Suburbicon | 2017 | 5.8 | 50,444 | Writer | Writer (not counted) |
 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | 2018 | 7.2 | 188K | Editor, Writer, Director, Producer | Editor, Writer, Producer, Director |
