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
'The Masterwork' Award Winning Fish-Knife "M-Work" on "Michael Nyman", as well as of the opening titles music for "The Falls". The cassette cover announces that the world premiere of "'The Masterwork' Award Winning Fish-Knife" would be given in November 1979. The 2011 liner notes for the CD release of "Michael Nyman", in the commentary on "M-Work", state that the project never advanced further than this audio cassette release. No one is credited on the album apart from Nyman, Richards, McLean, and Furlong, a group credit for the Michael Nyman Band, and E. Hallett &. Co. for the printing. 'The Masterwork' Award Winning Fish-Knife The music