Director
Joel Coen
14 films•1984–2018•Drama · Crime · Comedy
88%average critics81%average audience$35.0Mdomestic average
Films
14
1984–2018
Domestic
$490.2M
lifetime
Worldwide
$951.4M
lifetime
Avg opening
$5.3M
3-day
Avg legs
6.24x
opening → total
Return
4.2x
on $227.5M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 14 films directed by Joel Coen, from Blood Simple (1984) to The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), together grossing $490.2M domestic and $951.4M worldwide. The biggest hit is True Grit (2010) at $252.0M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $24.8M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | 90% | — |
 Inside Llewyn Davis | 2013 | $405K | $13.2M | 32.7x | $32.9M | — | 92% | — |
 True Grit | 2010 | $24.8M | $171.0M | 6.90x | $252.0M | B+ | 95% | #13 |
 A Serious Man | 2009 | $251K | $9.2M | — | $30.4M | — | 89% | — |
 Burn After Reading | 2008 | $19.1M | $60.4M | 3.16x | $164.0M | — | 78% | — |
 No Country for Old Men | 2007 | $7.8M | $74.3M | 9.60x | $172.0M | — | 93% | #35 |
 Intolerable Cruelty | 2003 | $12.5M | $35.3M | 2.82x | $121.0M | C+ | 76% | — |
 O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | $195K | $45.5M | 233.2x | $75.8M | — | 78% | — |
 The Big Lebowski | 1998 | $5.5M | $19.1M | — | $47.8M | — | 79% | — |
 Fargo | 1996 | $2.8M | $24.6M | 8.70x | $51.2M | — | 95% | — |
 Barton Fink | 1991 | $269K | $6.2M | 22.9x | — | — | 90% | — |
 Miller's Crossing | 1990 | — | $4.7M | — | — | — | 93% | — |
 Raising Arizona | 1987 | $36K | $22.8M | 630.4x | — | — | 91% | — |
 Blood Simple | 1984 | $42K | $3.9M | — | $4.3M | — | 94% | — |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 2.6 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.2x
$951.4M worldwide on $227.5M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $456.5MInternational $494.9M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven7.3x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.