The Man Who Wasn't There (2001 film) The Man Who Wasn't There (2001 film) The Man Who Wasn't There is a 2001 British-American neo-noir crime film written, produced and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Billy Bob Thornton stars in the title role. Also featured are Tony Shalhoub, Scarlett Johansson, James Gandolfini, and Coen regulars Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, Richard Jenkins and Jon Polito. Joel Coen won the Best Director Award at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen's brother and co-director of the film, did not receive the Best Director Award as he was not credited as a director. This was the last film
Joel Moss Levinson Joel Moss Levinson Joel Moss Levinson is a writer, comedian from Yellow Springs, Ohio. He often collaborates with his older brother, Stephen Levinson, as the Levinson Brothers. In 2016 they began work on a musical comedy called "Boy Band," the story of a late 1990s Boy Band who were wildly successful but have now gotten older, fatter and balder and haven't realized they are no longer "boys." The movie was primarily filmed in and around Dayton, Ohio and gained attention from national publication Newsweek as a new approach to advance the "decentralization of comedy." The movie features Questlove, Chase Crawford,