Roman Coppola
- Writing
- April 22, 1965 · Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Biography
Roman François Coppola (April 22, 1965) is the son of Francis Ford Coppola and an American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and entrepreneur. With the 2012 film Moonrise Kingdom, he and co-writer Wes Anderson were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His television series Mozart in the Jungle won the 2016 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. In 2019, Coppola was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Coppola serves as president of the San Francisco-based film company American Zoetrope. He is also the founder and owner of The Directors Bureau, a commercial and music video production company. Coppola began his directing career by overseeing in-camera visual effects and second unit direction for Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which garnered a BAFTA Award nomination for Visual Effects. He has continued to do second unit direction throughout his career, including his father's Jack, The Rainmaker, Youth Without Youth, and Tetro; collaborator Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited; and his sister Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides and Marie Antoinette. In the 1990s, Coppola established himself as an influential music video and commercial director. Through his production company, The Directors Bureau, he directed all four music videos for The Strokes' 2001 debut album, Is This It, as well as "12:51" for Room on Fire. His other music videos include clips for Daft Punk, Lilys, Moby, The Presidents of the United States of America, Ween, Green Day, and Fatboy Slim. His music video for Phoenix's "Funky Squaredance" was invited into the permanent collection at the New York Museum of Modern Art. He has also been a supporter of cousin Jason Schwartzman's musical side project, Coconut Records. His first feature film, CQ, premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and was well-received critically. Set in Paris in 1969, CQ centers on a young film editor trying to juggle his personal and professional life while simultaneously juggling a science fiction adventure and his own personal art film. Coppola's second feature, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, debuted in 2012 at the Rome Film Festival. Charlie Sheen starred as the title character, a graphic designer dealing with a break-up. The cast also included Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman. Reviews for the film tended toward the negative. Coppola is also an inventor and entrepreneur, responsible for the Photobubble Company, Pacific Tote Company, and a number of projects through the "Special Projects" arm of his production company.
Known for
Filmography
- Making Marie Antoinette · Self, Executive producer
- Breeder · Executive producer
- Marc by Sofia · Cinematography, Executive producer
- Fairyland · Executive producer
- Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us · Self
- The Making of Hearts of Darkness · Self
- Megadoc · Self
- The Phoenician Scheme · Story, Executive producer
- The Last Showgirl · Thanks
- Lumière, Le Cinéma! · Self
- Megalopolis · Second Unit Director
- A Century in Sound · Executive producer
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More · Cinematography
- Priscilla · Second Unit Director, Executive producer
- The Swan · Cinematography
- Asteroid City · Executive producer, Story
- The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun · Story, Executive producer
- Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special · Director, Executive producer
- On the Rocks · Executive producer
- Isle of Dogs · Igor (Voice), Story
- The Beguiled · Executive producer
- Paris Can Wait · Thanks
- The Family Whistle · Self
- A Very Murray Christmas · Assistant Director, Executive producer
- Mozart in the Jungle · Executive producer, Creator
- Castello Cavalcanti · Producer
- Here Comes the Night Time · Director
- The Bling Ring · Producer
- A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III · Writer, Producer
- Die Again, Undead One · Roman Coppola, Director
- Cousin Ben Troop Screening · Writer, Other
- On the Road · Producer
- Moonrise Kingdom · Writer
- From a Mess To The Masses · Additional Photography
- Fight for Your Right Revisited · Café Patron
- Somewhere · Producer
- Fantastic Mr. Fox · Squirrel Contractor (Voice)
- Tetro · Second Unit Director
- Coda: Thirty Years Later · Self
- Youth Without Youth · Second Unit Director
- Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula' · Self
- In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' · Self
- The Darjeeling Limited · Second Unit Director, Writer
- Adicolor Red · Director
- Marie Antoinette · Second Unit Director
- Danger: Diabolik - From Fumetti to Film · Self
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou · Second Unit Director
- Mario Bava: Operazione paura · Self
- Lost on Location: Behind the Scenes of 'Lost in Translation' · Self
- The Work of Director Spike Jonze · Director
- Lost in Translation · Thanks, Other
- On the Set of CQ · Self
- The Strokes: MTV $2 Bill Concert · Director
- Green Day: International Supervideos! · Director
- CQ · Director, Writer
- The Making of The Virgin Suicides · Self
- The Virgin Suicides · Second Unit Director
- D.A.F.T. · Director
- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace · Senate Guard (uncredited)
- Torrance Rises · Self, Cinematography
- Lick the Star · Second Unit Director of Photography
- Free Tibet · Cinematography
- The Rainmaker · Second Unit Director
- Jack · Second Unit Director
- Bed, Bath and Beyond · Cinematography
- Bram Stoker's Dracula · Second Unit Director, Visual Effects
- Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse · Self
- The Linguini Incident · Thanks
- The Spirit of '76 · Story, Executive producer
- Clownhouse · Executive In Charge Of Production
- Rumble Fish · Associate Producer
- The Black Stallion Returns · Sound Recordist, Production Assistant
- Apocalypse Now · Francis de Marais
- The Godfather Part II · Sonny Corleone as a Boy (uncredited)
- The Godfather · Boy on Street Who Attended Funeral (uncredited)
- You're a Big Boy Now · Baby Boy in Carriage (uncredited)
- Untitled Wes Anderson Film · Writer, Executive producer
- Glimpses of the Moon · Second Unit Director