Biography
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. 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.
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Filmography
all 231
Movies 211
self 117
Producer 57
Director 40
TV Shows 20
Writer 5
Voice 1
Megalopolis (2024)
Shadow Brother Sunday (2024)
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain (2023)
The Family (2023)
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called (2022)
Becoming Al Pacino (2022)
Freda (2021)
Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola (2021)
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age (2021)
Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony (2021)
Wim Wenders, Desperado (2020)
Stewart Copeland's Adventures In Music (2020)
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back (2019)
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019)
Hardball: The Girls of Summer (2019)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019)
Friedkin Uncut (2018)
American Dream: Detroit (2018)
Godfather I (2018)
Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema (2018)
Spielberg (2017)
Five Came Back (2017)
Five Came Back (2017)
La Traviata (2017)
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story (2017)
Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos (2016)
The Family Whistle (2016)
Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son (2015)
Reflections in Blood: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (2015)
Jay Leno's Garage (2015)
Listen to Me Marlon (2015)
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire (2014)
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance (2014)
Henri Langlois vu par... (2014)
Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto (2014)
The Director's Chair (2014)
Palo Alto (2014)
And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)
Oldboy (2013)
Locations: Looking for Rusty James (2013)
Trespassing Bergman (2013)
Twixt: A Documentary (2013)
The Bling Ring (2013)
Seduced and Abandoned (2013)
Milius (2013)
Bergmans video (2012)
The Godfather Legacy (2012)
On the Road (2012)
Twixt (2011)
Somewhere (2010)
Sodankylä Forever (2010)
A Conversation with Martin Sheen (2010)
The People vs. George Lucas (2010)
Tetro (2009)
Hollywood's Best Film Directors (2009)
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009)
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped (2008)
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather' (2008)
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't (2008)
The Last Days of Marlon Brando (2008)
Coda: Thirty Years Later (2007)
Youth Without Youth (2007)
Fog City Mavericks (2007)
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' (2007)
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' (2007)
Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula' (2007)
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka (2007)
Lights, Action, Music (2007)
The Making of Marie Antoinette (2007)
The Good Shepherd (2006)
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006)
Marie Antoinette (2006)
The Godfather and the Mob (2006)
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders' (2005)
An All Round Maid (2005)
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found (2005)
Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa (2005)
George Lucas: Creating an Empire (2005)
Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate (2004)
Tying the Knot (2004)
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope (2004)
Kinsey (2004)
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138' (2004)
Leçon de Cinéma (2004)
The Dream Studio (2004)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig (2003)
Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)
A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003)
Assassination Tango (2003)
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die) (2003)
The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)
Pumpkin (2002)
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome (2001)
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal (2001)
Jeepers Creepers (2001)
CQ (2001)
No Such Thing (2001)
The Making of The Virgin Suicides (2000)
Supernova (2000)
Un matin partout dans le monde (2000)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Goosed (1999)
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
The Florentine (1999)
Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños (1999)
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (1999)
Lani Loa: The Passage (1998)
The Making of 'American Graffiti' (1998)
First Wave (1998)
Moby Dick (1998)
Outrage (1998)
A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola (1997)
The Rainmaker (1997)
Buddy (1997)
The Odyssey (1997)
In Search of Dracula (1996)
Dark Angel (1996)
Jack (1996)
White Dwarf (1995)
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)
My Family (1995)
The World of Jim Henson (1994)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein (1994)
Don Juan DeMarco (1994)
Inside the Actors Studio (1994)
Marlon Brando: The Wild One (1994)
Ironbound (1994)
Traveling Light (1994)
In the Name of the Father (1993)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)
The Secret Garden (1993)
The Junky's Christmas (1993)
Making 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' (1992)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992)
Wind (1992)
Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro (1992)
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies. (1992)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper (1991)
The Godfather Part III (1990)
Hollywood Mavericks (1990)
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside (1990)
Martin Scorsese Directs (1990)
The Outsiders (1990)
Central Park (1989)
New York Stories (1989)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Powaqqatsi (1988)
Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)
Barfly (1987)
Lionheart (1987)
Gardens of Stone (1987)
Rip Van Winkle (1987)
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Disney’s Captain EO Grand Opening (1986)
Captain EO (1986)
The Making of Captain EO (1986)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
The Cotton Club (1984)
Rumble Fish (1983)
Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
The Outsiders (1983)
The Black Stallion Returns (1983)
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982 (1982)
Faerie Tale Theatre (1982)
The Making of 'One from the Heart' (1982)
Hammett (1982)
The Escape Artist (1982)
One from the Heart (1982)
The Godfather Epic: 1901-1959 (1981)
A Pretty British Affair (1981)
The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic (1981)
Rendez-Vous Video Magazine (1981)
Inside the Coppola Personality (1981)
Kagemusha (1980)
Jerry Brown: The Shape of Things to Come (1980)
The Black Stallion (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television (1977)
Bitte umblättern (1977)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
The Lion Roars Again (1975)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Dinah! (1974)
Spécial cinéma (1974)
The Conversation (1974)
The Great Gatsby (1974)
The Way We Were (1973)
American Graffiti (1973)
The Godfather (1972)
The People (1972)
THX 1138 (1971)
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138' (1971)
Great Performances (1971)
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes (1971)
Patton (1970)
The Rain People (1969)
Filmmaker (1968)
Finian's Rainbow (1968)
The New Cinema (1968)
The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow' (1968)
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
This Property Is Condemned (1966)
Dementia 13 (1963)
The Haunted Palace (1963)
The Terror (1963)
The Young Racers (1963)
The Peeper (1962)
Tonight for Sure (1962)
War Hunt (1962)
The Premature Burial (1962)
The Bellboy and the Playgirls (1962)
Battle Beyond the Sun (1962)
Nebo Zovyot (1959)
No Cigar (1956)
The Oscars (1953)
Untitled Francis Ford Coppola Film
Behind the scenes
There Is No Direction
The Godfather Comes to Sixth St.
Omnibus - George Lucas - Flying Solo
Distant Vision
CANNOLI
CLEMENZA
Art Never Sleeps
The Conquest of Mexico
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1939-04-07 (85 years old)
Birth PlaceDetroit, United States of America
Height
SpouseEleanor Coppola
ChildrenRoman Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Gian-Carlo Coppola
FatherCarmine Coppola
MotherItalia Coppola
SiblingsTalia Shire, August Coppola
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesNapa Valley AVA, United States of America
Also Known AsФрэнсис Форд Коппола, فرانسيس فورد كوبولا, 弗朗西斯·科波拉, ฟรานซิส ฟอร์ด คอปโปลา, フランシス・フォード・コッポラ, 프랜시스 포드 코폴라, Thomas Colchart, Francis Coppola, 프란시스 포드 코폴라, 프랜시스 코폴라, 프란시스 코폴라, Френсіс Форд Коппола
AwardsLumière Award, Lyon Festival of cinema, Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, Inkpot Award, National Board of Review Award for Best Film, Writers Guild of America Award, Directors Guild of America Award, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Donostia Award, BAFTA Award for Best Direction, Praemium Imperiale, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, California Hall of Fame, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Mary Pickford Award
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