Etan Cohen
American film director and screenwriter
Etan Cohen
Born (1974-03-14 ) March 14, 1974 (age 50) Nationality American Alma mater Harvard College Occupation(s) Film director, screenwriter Years active 1995–present
Etan Cohen (Hebrew : איתן כהן ; born March 14, 1974) is an Israeli-American screenwriter and film director who has written scripts for Hollywood movies, including Idiocracy , Tropic Thunder , Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa , Men in Black 3 , and The Bad Guys .
Early life and education
Born in Israel to a Jewish family, Cohen grew up in Sharon, Massachusetts . He graduated from the Maimonides School and Harvard College , where he wrote for the Harvard Lampoon .[ 1] [ 2]
Career
His first produced scripts, in 1995 and 1997, were for Beavis and Butthead , where he was credited as Etan Cohen.[citation needed ] He has since written for other Mike Judge -directed projects, including King of the Hill from 2001 to 2005, and for the feature film Idiocracy in 2006. In the late 1990s he worked on two other television series – the animated Recess and the short lived It's Like, You Know... . In 2007, he wrote the short film ‘My Wife is Retarded,’.[ 3] After scripting Idiocracy , he worked on the animated series, American Dad! and wrote the episode, "Failure Is Not a Factory-Installed Option ". The American Dad! minor character of the same name is named for him.
In 2008, Cohen co-wrote, along with Ben Stiller and Justin Theroux , the action-comedy film Tropic Thunder . He also co-wrote, along with Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath , Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa , which earned an Annie Award nomination for best Writing in a Feature Production .
Cohen penned the script for 2012's Men in Black 3 . In 2015, he made his directorial debut with Get Hard , which he also co-wrote.
Cohen wrote and directed the 2018 film Holmes & Watson . The film earned him a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director .[ 4]
Personal life
Cohen is an observant Jew.[ 5] He keeps kosher and does not work on the Jewish Sabbath. He and his wife send their children to a Jewish day school.[ 5]
Filmography
Films
Television
Awards and nominations
References
^ Smith, Lynn (August 15, 2008). "The joke is on you" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
^ Chris Lee (May 29, 2012). "The Movie Redemption of 'Men in Black 3' Scribe Etan Cohen" . The Daily Beast . IAC . Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
^ "My Wife is Retarded" . IMDb .
^ Howard, Annie (February 22, 2019). "Worst Director - Razzie Awards: 'Holmes & Watson' Named Worst Picture of the Year" . The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
^ a b Zeitchik, Steven (March 13, 2015). "Etan Cohen, director of 'Get Hard,' is used to confounding expectations" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved November 28, 2020 .
^ "Annie Awards - 36th Annie Awards" . Annie Awards . Retrieved April 30, 2023 .
^ Montgomery, Daniel (February 23, 2019). "2019 Razzie winners announced: Full list of Razzie Award winners in all 10 categories [WATCH]" . GoldDerby . Retrieved April 30, 2023 .
^ "Annie Awards - 32nd Annie Awards" . Retrieved April 30, 2023 .
^ a b "Etan Cohen - Awards" . IMDb . Retrieved January 31, 2024 .
^ Sciretta, Peter (February 13, 2007). "The 2007 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival Film Program Line-Up" . /Film . Retrieved April 30, 2023 .
^ "2019 Razzie winners announced: Full list of Razzie Award winners in all 10 categories [WATCH]" . February 23, 2019.
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Awards for Ethan Coen
Ben Edlund and Richard Liebmann-Smith (1995)
Jason Butler Rote and Paul Rudish (1997)
Charles M. Howell IV, Earl Kress and John Ludin (1998)
Tim Long , Larry Doyle and Matt Selman (1999)
Steve Young (2000)
Ron Weiner (2001)
Norm Hiscock (2002)
Matt Warburton (2003)
Etan Cohen (2004)
C. H. Greenblatt , Paul Tibbitt , Mike Bell and Tim Hill (2005)
Ian Maxtone-Graham (2006)
Ian Maxtone-Graham and Billy Kimball (2007)
Tom Root , Doug Goldstein , Hugh Davidson , Mike Fasolo , Seth Green , Dan Milano , Matthew Senreich , Kevin Shinick , Zeb Wells and Breckin Meyer (2008)
Daniel Chun (2009)
Geoff Johns , Matthew Beans, Zeb Wells , Hugh Sterbakov, Matthew Senreich , Breckin Meyer , Seth Green , Mike Fasolo , Doug Goldstein , Tom Root , Dan Milano , Kevin Shinick and Hugh Davidson (2010)
Carolyn Omine (2011)
Trey Parker (2012)
Lewis Morton (2013)
Darrick Bachman (2014)
Steven Davis and Kelvin Yu (2015)
Lizzie Molyneux and Wendy Molyneux (2016)
Ryan Ridley and Dan Guterman (2017)
Stephanie Simpson (2018)
Shauna McGarry (2019)
Andrew Goldberg and Patti Harrison (2020)
Christian Linke and Alex Yee (2021)
Andrew Kevin Walker (2022)
Amber Noizumi (2023)
1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
M. Night Shyamalan – The Last Airbender (2010)
Dennis Dugan – Jack and Jill and Just Go with It (2011)
Bill Condon – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012)
Elizabeth Banks , Steven Brill , Steve Carr , Rusty Cundieff , James Duffy, Griffin Dunne , Peter Farrelly , Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn , Bob Odenkirk , Brett Ratner , and Jonathan van Tulleken – Movie 43 (2013)
Michael Bay – Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
Josh Trank – Fantastic Four (2015)
Dinesh D'Souza and Bruce Schooley – Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016)
Tony Leondis – The Emoji Movie (2017)
Etan Cohen – Holmes & Watson (2018)
Tom Hooper – Cats (2019)
2020s
International National Other