Francis Ford Coppola
- Directing
- April 7, 1939 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
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
- Making Marie Antoinette · Self
- Tribeca 25 · Self
- Pinocchio: Unstrung · Thanks
- Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life · Self
- Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean · Self
- Films to Die For · Self
- Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us · Self
- The Making of Hearts of Darkness · Self
- Megadoc · Self
- Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story · Self
- Brother Verses Brother · Executive producer
- The Last Showgirl · Thanks
- Lumière, Le Cinéma! · Self
- The Preakness · Thanks
- Megalopolis · Writer, Director
- Shadow Brother Sunday · Executive producer
- Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master · Self
- Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club · Self
- Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma · Self
- The Family · Self
- Beau geste · Self
- LIGHT & MAGIC · Self
- Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called · Self
- 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
- Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony · Self
- Directors on Directors · Self
- Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen · Self
- Wim Wenders, Desperado · Self
- Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back · Self
- Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound · Self
- What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael · Self
- Friedkin Uncut · Self
- American Dream: Detroit · Self
- 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
- Jay Leno's Garage · Self
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- Artistry/Technology · Self
- Listen to Me Marlon · Self
- Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire · Self
- Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance · Self
- Henri Langlois vu par... · Self, Director
- Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto · Self
- The Director's Chair · Self
- Palo Alto · The Judge (voice) (uncredited)
- Oldboy · Thanks
- Locations: Looking for Rusty James · Technical Advisor
- Trespassing Bergman · Self
- Twixt: A Documentary · Self
- The Bling Ring · Executive producer
- Seduced and Abandoned · Self
- Milius · Self
- The Godfather Legacy · Self
- On the Road · Executive producer
- Twixt · Director, Producer
- Somewhere · Executive producer
- A Conversation with Martin Sheen · Self
- Sodankylä Forever · Self
- The People vs. George Lucas · Self
- C à vous · Self
- Tetro · Director, Producer
- I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale · Self
- Cannoli · Self
- Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather' · Self
- The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped · Self
- The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't · Self
- The Last Days of Marlon Brando · Self
- Coda: Thirty Years Later · Self, Executive producer
- Youth Without Youth · Director, Producer