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The Academy Award-winning Coen Brothers, Joel and Ethan, ain’t strapped for cash these days. But when it rains, it pours. So the brothers will receive a $1 million prize for their contributions to filmmaking.
Tel Aviv University announced last week the recipients of the international Dan David Prize, which annually makes three awards for outstanding achievement in the categories of past, present and future time dimensions. The Coens were awarded the prize in the present category “for their ability to tell a simple story in a complex manner.”
Among their films are “Raising Arizona,” “The Big Lebowski,” “Fargo,” “A Serious Man,” “True Grit,” “Blood Simple” and “No Country for Old Men.”
The past category prize was awarded to Professor Marcus Feldman of the Stanford University School of Medicine for his work in the evolutionary sciences. Professor Cynthia Kenyon of the University of California, San Francisco, and Harvard Medical School Professor Gary Ruvkun will share the future prize for their work in gerontology.
The laureates, who donate 10 percent of their prize money toward 20 doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships, will be honored at a ceremony May 15 at Tel Aviv University.