Coen Brothers receive France's top cultural honour US filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen on Wednesday received France's highest cultural honour at a ceremony in Paris. The brothers, much garlanded for their large body of work including the Oscar-winning "No Country for Old Men" and "Barton Fink" which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, were each made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. Images and soundbites.