This section of the website is dedicated to the hard-working folk you don't see, you don't read about, those behind the scenes. People without whose contribution and hard work, a Coen brothers film just would not be complete. The film folk below are all people who have worked with the Coens many times.
ROGER DEAKINS, A.S.C, B.S.C, cinematographer

Award-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins has worked on every Coen movie since Barton Fink. Deakins' work with the Coens has been honored with an Academy Award® nomination for Fargo, and Best Cinematography awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics, and the National Society of Film Critics for Barton Fink. He has also been recognized with an Academy Award nomination and an A.S.C. Award for his work on "The Shawshank Redemption," and an Oscar® nomination and Best Cinematography awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Boston Society of Film Critics, and the National Society of Film Critics for Kundun.

Deakins began working as a still photographer before enrolling in Britain's National Film School in 1972. His association with fellow student Michael Radford led to director of photography work on three of Radford's films, White Mischief, 1984, and Another Time, Another Place. Deakins credits include such notable films as The Siege, Courage Under Fire, Dead Man Walking, Secret Garden, Passion Fish, Thunderheart, and Sid and Nancy. His distinguished career also includes feature documentaries such as When the World Changed and Eritrea: Behind the Lines, and music documentaries including Blue Suede Shoes and Van Morrison in Ireland. He has shot music videos for Herbie Hancock, Eric Clapton, Marvin Gaye, and Madness, among others.

Click this link to visit the Camera Guild website which has quite a few articles and interviews with Deakins.

CARTER BURWELL, composer

Born in New York on 18th November 1955, Burwell is a well respected film score composer having worked on well over 50 films since his debut on the Coen brother's debut Blood Simple. He has a reputation for daring to be different and experimentation, especially on the Coen brother's movies because they trust him and his work implicitly. He has contributed to all of the Coen's movies to date.

Burwell has also composed music for the following movies; Psycho III, Buffy The Vampire Slayer (the Luke Perry/Kristy Swanson starring movie of 1992 NOT the trendy TV series), Wayne's World 2, Kalifornia (underrated), Airheads (Buscemi), Conspiracy Theory, Gods And Monsters, The Velvet Goldmine, Three Kings, Being John Malkovich and Adaptation for Spike Jonze and, err, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2.

MARY ZOPHRES, costume designer
Zophres has distinguished herself with costume design contributions to such critically acclaimed motion pictures as the Academy Award®-winning Fargo and 1998's blockbuster comedy There's Something About Mary.

Zophres has also designed costumes for The Big Lebowski, Playing God, Where's Marlowe, God Said 'Ha!', Digging to China, Paulie, Last of the High Kings, Kingpin, Bushwacked, Dumb and Dumber, Any Given Sunday and Thick as Thieves.

As an assistant costume designer her credits include Natural Born Killers, The Hudsucker Proxy, This Boy's Life, Jennifer 8, Man Trouble, City Slickers, Radio Flyer, Young Guns II, The Heidi Chronicles, and Born on the Fourth of July.

Zophres earned a degree in art history and studio art from Vassar College before beginning her professional career working in the fashion industry for Norma Kamali and Esprit. She began her film industry career as the extra's wardrobe supervisor on Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July.

TIM BEVAN and ERIC FELLNER, Working Title Films, executive producers

Working Title Films is Europe's preeminent production house, run by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner (Executive Producers) -- British-based producers with a strong presence in the Hollywood community. Working Title have produced every Coen brothers film since The Hudsucker Proxy except Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers.

Working Title Films are responsible for pretty much every British hit movie in the last 10 years. Most notably Four Weddings And A Funeral, Notting Hill, Bean, Elizabeth, Billy Elliot, Bridget Jones' Diary, High Fidelity, About A Boy, Love Actually and, of course, their collaborations with the Coens. Who knows how they find the time with all those awards to collect?

BARRY SONNENFELD, cinematographer
Beginning his movie career as a cinematographer in 1982, he first worked with the Coen brother's on their debut, Blood Simple. He worked in the same capacity on Raising Arizona and Miller's Crossing for the Coens along with movies including Big, Throw Momma From the Train and Misery. He got his directing break with The Addams Family before really making a splash with the Elmore Leonard adaptation, Get Shorty, which led to the blockbuster comedy Men In Black, and the uber flop Wild, Wild West.
RODERICK JAYNES, film editor
Jaynes began his career minding the tea cart at Shepperton Studios in the 1930s. He eventually moved into the editing department, where he worked on some of the more marginal pictures of the British film industry of the '50s and '60s. With the demise of the "Carry On" series he retired from film, but emerged from retirement to work on Joel and Ethan Coen's first movie, "Blood Simple." He has worked on most of their pictures since.

Mr. Jaynes resides in Hove, Sussex, with his chow, Otto. He is still widely admired in the film industry for his impeccable grooming and is the world's foremost collector of Margaret Thatcher nudes, many of them drawn from life.

We, of course, know Jaynes to be a pseudonym for the Coens devised because they didn't want to see their names too many times in the credits. It's worth noting that 'he' has been nominated for an Oscar and how embarassing it would have been for the Academy had 'he' won. The Coen's had planned to have Albert Finney (heavily disguised) collect the award had they won but the Academy talked them out of it.

DENNIS GASSNER, production designer
Gassner was nominated for two Academy Awards® in the same year for his work on Barton Fink and Bugsy, winning the Oscar® for Bugsy. Other recent credits include The Truman Show, Waterworld, and Hero. In addition to Barton Fink, he has also worked on The Hudsucker Proxy, Barton Fink, Miller's Crossing, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn't There and The Ladykillers for the Coens. Additional film credits include The Grifters, Field of Dreams, Earth Girls Are Easy, Like Father Like Son, Wisdom, and The Hitcher.
 
JOHN CAMERON, co-producer, President of The KL Line 
Cameron has been associated with Joel and Ethan Coen for many years, having first met the brothers during his early career with director Sam Raimi.

Cameron first began working with Raimi and actor/producer Bruce Campbell in 1973 when the trio was in high school. After attending NYU film school, Cameron rejoined Raimi, Campbell, and producer Robert Tapert for Raimi's first feature The Evil Dead. Subsequently, Cameron served as first assistant director on many of Raimi's films, including Crimewave, Darkman, Army of Darkness, and The Quick and the Dead.

Other credits as first assistant director include Dazed and Confused and the blockbuster Men in Black. Continuing his long association with Raimi and Tapert, Cameron has directed episodes of both Hercules and Xena: Warrior Princess.

Cameron first worked with Joel and Ethan Coen as first assistant director on The Hudsucker Proxy. He coproduced their next film, Fargo, and has acted as their co-producer on films since then, including The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and The Man Who Wasn't There. In addition, Cameron is the president of the Coen Brother's production company, The KL Line.

 
T-BONE BURNETT, composer

Burnett is a writer, performer, and music producer. Born Joseph Henry Burnett in St. Louis, Missouri, he grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. He began making records in 1965, producing Texas blues, country, and rock and roll bands, and occasionally, himself. He now lives and works in Los Angeles, California, where he has completed two albums, Tooth of Crime, music he wrote for the Sam Shepard play that premiered in New York in 1997; and The True False Identity, his first album of original songs since The Criminal Under My Own Hat was released in 1992, for which he received a Grammy Award nomination.

While finishing his work on O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Burnett began performing songs from those albums in preparation for their release next year. His previous motion picture credits include The Horse Whisperer, Hope Floats, Stealing Beauty, Clay Pigeons, Until the End of the World, and Ruby in Paradise.

The long list of artists whose work Burnett has produced includes such legends as Elvis Costello, Los Lobos, Roy Orbison, Jackson Browne, the Wallflowers, Counting Crows, and Spinal Tap. In addition, his songs have been recorded by Peter Case, Rita Coolidge, Robert Gordon, Arlo Guthrie, Kris Kristofferson, K.D. lang, Los Lobos, and B.J. Thomas, to name a few.

He has worked with the Coen brothers on The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou? where he was responsible for sourcing all the great old timey music and The Ladykillers.

 
TRICIA COOKE, film editor
 Cooke has served as editor or associate editor on a wide variety of feature films. She previously worked with Messrs. Coen on their critically acclaimed films The Big Lebowski , O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn't There and the Academy Award®-winning Fargo, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink and The Hudsucker Proxy on which she was associate editor. Among her other motion picture credits are director Brion Rockwell's Where the Air Is Cool and Dark, Richard Murphy's Betty, J. Todd Anderson's The Naked Man, and director Josh Klaussner's Fourth Floor.
SKIP LIEVSAY, supervising sound editor

Lievsay has worked in movies and television for the past 20 years with some of the most prominent filmmakers in the industry, including the Coen brothers, Tim Burton, Barry Sonnenfeld, Jonathan Demme, Spike Lee, Frank Oz, Ulu Grosbard, Mira Nair, Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, John Sayles, Arthur Penn, and John Waters. He received the Golden Satellite Award for Best Sound for his work on 1999's Sleepy Hollow, directed by Tim Burton.

Lievsay has worked with the Coens on Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Man Who Wasn't There.

J. TODD ANDERSON, storyboard artist
Anderson has worked with the Coen brothers on every film since Raising Arizona in the capacity as a Storyboard Artist. Joel and Ethan draw the initial storyboards and Anderson perfects them. He has also co-written, with Ethan, and directed his first movie, The Naked Man, which is a knock about comedy about a wrestler (Michael Rapaport) who dons his 'naked man' suit which is essentially a cat suit with the human organs painted on it. He also played 'The Victim In The Field' in Fargo, for which his credit at the close of the film is replaced with Prince's squiggle thing.
RICK HEINRICHS, production designer
Heinrichs has worked on two Coen brothers movies so far, Fargo and The Big Lebowski. He has also worked with Tim Burton on Sleepy Hollow and the Planet Of The Apes remake in the same capacity, and in various other art department roles on The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissor Hands, and Batman Returns as well as filling the role of Associate Producer on Frankenweenie.
MARK SILVERMAN, co-producer
Silverman has worked on three Coen movies- Blood Simple, Raising Arizona and Miller's Crossing. He hasn't done anything since Miller's.
GRAHAM PLACE, co-producer
Place has co-produced, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink and The Hudsucker Proxy. He has since worked with Barry Sonnenfled (above) on The Addams Family, Get Shorty, Men In Black and Wild Wild West.
ELLEN CHENOWETH, casting director
BEN BARENHOLTZ, executive producer
Executive Producer on the Coen's Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink, J. Todd Anderson'd The Naked Man and Aronofsky's Requiem For A Dream among others. Has been working in the film industry since 1958.

 

"We can't imagine doing a film without Roger [Deakins]."- Joel Coen

"I love working with Joel and Ethan. I'd shoot the phone directory for them."- Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC