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American screenwriter (born 1963) This article is about comedy film screenwriter. For Joel Coen, see Coen brothers. For the writer for The Simpsons, see Joel H. Cohen. For other people, see Joel Cohen (disambiguation).

Joel Cohen
Born	Joel Edmund Cohen (1963-08-23) August 23, 1963 (age 61) Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	State University of New York
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	1983–present

Joel Edmund Cohen (born August 23, 1963) is an American screenwriter who has worked on projects such as the movies Cheaper by the Dozen, Toy Story, Money Talks and Garfield: The Movie. He frequently works with his writing partner Alec Sokolow.

Along with Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Joe Ranft, and Sokolow, Cohen was nominated in 1996 for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for his work on Toy Story. Beyond writing, Cohen and Sokolow jointly directed Monster Mash: The Movie (1995) and executively produced Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber (2008).

Selected writing credits

v t e Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Writing in a Feature Production
Brenda Chapman (1994) Andrew Stanton, Joss Whedon, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow (1996) Rita Hsiao, Chris Sanders, Philip LaZebnik, Raymond Singer and Eugenia Bostwick-Singer (1998) Brad Bird and Tim McCanlies (1999) John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Ash Brannon, Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin and Chris Webb (2000) Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S. H. Schulman (2001) Hayao Miyazaki (2002) Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds (2003) Brad Bird (2004) Steve Box, Nick Park and Mark Burton (2005) Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Christopher Lloyd, Joe Keenan and William Davies (2006) Brad Bird (2007) Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger (2008) Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (2009) Chris Sanders, Will Davies and Dean DeBlois (2010) James Ward Byrkit, John Logan and Gore Verbinski (2011) Phil Johnston and Jennifer Lee (2012) Hayao Miyazaki (2013) Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (2014) Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley (2015) Jared Bush and Phil Johnston (2016) Adrian Molina and Matthew Aldrich (2017) Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman (2018) Jérémy Clapin and Guillaume Laurant (2019) Pete Docter, Mike Jones and Kemp Powers (2020) Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe (2021) Dean Fleischer Camp, Jenny Slate, Nick Paley and Elisabeth Holm (2022) Robert L. Baird and Lloyd Taylor (2023)

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