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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. |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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,
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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SILVERMAN, co-producer |
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| 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. |
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