Blood Simple (1984)
A Texas neo-noir small-cast murder spiral. Blood Simple is Joel and Ethan Coen's 1984 American indie neo-noir and the directors' debut feature.
Actor: Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand has won Best Actress three times, for Fargo, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri and Nomadland, which only Katharine Hepburn has beaten.
Marge Gunderson in Fargo is a pregnant police chief whose competence is never remarked upon by the film, and the performance is the least mannered thing in a very mannered picture.
She married Joel Coen in 1984 and has appeared in most of the brothers’ films, including Blood Simple, her debut.
Nomadland she also produced, living in a van during filming alongside the non-professional cast, and she has been consistently blunt about industry expectations of women.
