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 Harlow Joel Harlow Joel Harlow is a makeup artist. Harlow won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling in 2009 for his work on "Star Trek", and was once again nominated in 2013 for "The Lone Ranger" and in 2016 for "Star Trek Beyond". Harlow was inspired to work in film-making after seeing the 1933 film "King Kong" as a child. He later explained that he spent "hours in the basement creating things and I knew I wanted to make characters. I just didn't know what it was at the time, that makeup was the way to do that." He