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
Ethan Brooks Paisley Ethan Brooks Paisley Ethan Brooks Paisley is an award-winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. Ethan Brooks Paisley was born on August 1, 2000 in Petaluma, California. He began his filmmaking career at the age of twelve when he gained county-wide fame for his humorous YouTube spoof-style series entitled "ethanpaisley". In 2015, Paisley wrote and directed "The Art of Escape". The film premiered at the Singapore International Film Festival and won distribution with Universal Markets [UK]. The same year, he began his production company Take18 Entertainment. Under Take18 Entertainment, Paisley wrote and directed "Point 453" (2016). "Point 453" screened at