Known For
Directing
Born
Apr 07, 1939
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Credits
265 titles
Francis Ford Coppola
Biography
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American filmmaker. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most celebrated and influential film directors. He epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, which included George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Woody Allen and William Friedkin, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary filmmaking. He co-authored the script for Patton, winning the Academy Award in 1970. His directorial fame escalated with the release of The Godfather in 1972. The film revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre, garnering universal laurels from critics and public alike. It went on to win three Academy Awards, including his second, which he won for Best Adapted Screenplay, and it was instrumental in cementing his position as one of the prominent American film directors. Coppola followed it with an equally successful sequel The Godfather Part II, which became the first ever sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film received yet higher praises than its predecessor, and gave him three Academy Awards—for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture. In the same year was released The Conversation, which he directed, produced and wrote. The film went on to win the Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. His next directorial venture was Apocalypse Now in 1979, and it was as notorious for its lengthy and troubled production as it was critically acclaimed for its vivid and stark depiction of the Vietnam War. It won his second Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Although some of Coppola's ventures in the 1980s and early 1990s were critically lauded, Coppola's later work has not met the same level of critical and commercial success as his '70s films.
Known For
Filmography
Pinocchio: Unstrung
Thanks
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
Self
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
Self
Films to Die For
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Making of Hearts of Darkness
Himself
Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us
Himself
Megadoc
Self
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Brother Verses Brother
Executive Producer
The Last Showgirl
Thanks
Lumière, Le Cinéma!
Self
The Preakness
Thanks
Megalopolis
Writer
Shadow Brother Sunday
Executive Producer
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
Self (archive) - director
Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
Self - Guest
The Family
Self
Beau geste
Self
LIGHT & MAGIC
Self (archive footage)
Dans les secrets des films Star Wars
Self ( Archives)
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
Self (archive footage)
Freda
Executive Producer
Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola
Self
Morceaux de Cannes
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Self (archive footage)
Directors on Directors
Self
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
Self
The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
Director
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
Self
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Self (archive footage)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Self
Friedkin Uncut
Self
American Dream: Detroit
Self - Interviewee
Godfather I
Self
Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema
Self
Marcians
Self
Spielberg
Self
Five Came Back
Self
Five Came Back
Self
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
Self
Paris Can Wait
Thanks
Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos
Self
The Family Whistle
Self
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
Producer
Reflections in Blood: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Self
Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son
Self
Jay Leno's Garage
Self