Coen brothers with its head turned around as it looks back over its hindquarters. Up to 2003, Joel received sole credit for directing and Ethan for producing, due to guild rules that disallowed multiple director credits to prevent dilution of the position's significance. The only exception to this rule is if the co-directors are an "established duo". Now that they were able to share the director credit the Coen brothers have become only the third duo to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. The first two pairs to achieve this were Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins (who won for
Joel Trussell Joel Trussell Joel Trussell is a director and artist based in Los Angeles, California. He is currently an executive producer at Disney Television Animation for the Disney XD show "Pickle and Peanut" which he helped develop alongside the creator Noah Z. Jones. Before Disney, Trussell directed the 20 episode, award winning, animated series "Electric City" which is created, written by and starring Tom Hanks. Trussell is additionally well known for directing several award winning music videos, and many animated segments for "Yo Gabba Gabba!" on Nickelodeon. In 2008 he was selected by Mike Judge to direct the intro for "The