Francis Ford Coppola

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Age

Movies

110

Born: April 7, 1939
From: Detroit, Michigan, USA
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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.

Works

110 films

Apocalypse Now

19798.3

Palo Alto

20146.1

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

20257.5

Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master

20248.1

The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'

20078.0

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

20196.9

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

19917.9

Lumière, Le Cinéma!

20247.0

Seduced and Abandoned

20136.2

Spielberg

20177.5

A Decade Under the Influence

20037.9

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

20214.5

Hollywood Mavericks

19907.3

Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto

20146.0

Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club

20236.9

Kurosawa: The Last Emperor

19996.2

George Lucas: Creating an Empire

20055.0

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

20217.9

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

20037.1

Marlon Brando: The Wild One

19946.5

Morceaux de Cannes

20212.0

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

19907.8

Fog City Mavericks

20078.5

Megadoc

20256.5

The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

20087.2

Friedkin Uncut

20187.1

The World of Jim Henson

19947.4

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

20016.7

Coda: Thirty Years Later

20074.8

The People vs. George Lucas

20106.3

Martin Scorsese Directs

19909.0

War Hunt

19626.4

The Making of Marie Antoinette

20075.0

Trespassing Bergman

20136.6

Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'

20059.0

The Making of The Virgin Suicides

20007.2

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

20096.9

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

19987.8

Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life

2026

Listen to Me Marlon

20157.5

Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean

2026

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

20196.7

Godfather I

2018

Henri Langlois vu par...

20144.0

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

20047.6

Central Park

19907.5

Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found

20058.0

The Young Racers

19635.3

The Godfather and the Mob

20067.0

Wim Wenders, Desperado

20207.7

Brando

20076.8

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

20147.2

Milius

20137.1

Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'

2007

On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'

20058.0

The Godfather Legacy

20127.2

The Godfather: Behind the Scenes

1971

Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola

2021

Five Came Back

20177.9

Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'

20087.0

The Making of Captain EO

19866.9

The Lion Roars Again

19756.5

Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called

20227.7

Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal

20017.1

Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back

20195.0

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

19947.7

The Making of 'One from the Heart'

19828.5

The New Cinema

1968

Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig

20037.5

Filmmaker

19687.3

Inside the Coppola Personality

19817.5

The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka

20077.7

The Family

20236.0

Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'

20047.0

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

20176.8

Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa

2005

Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'

19716.7

Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper

1991

Twixt: A Documentary

2013

The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped

20086.6

Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema

201810.0

Artistry/Technology

2015

Art Never Sleeps

2026

The Making of Hearts of Darkness

2025

Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies

19926.4

Death of a Porn Queen

19871.0

A Conversation with Martin Sheen

2010

Rendez-Vous Video Magazine

19815.0

Films to Die For

2025

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

2014

Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro

19926.3

The Family Whistle

20166.0

In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'

20078.0

The Last Days of Marlon Brando

20087.0

On the Set of CQ

20027.0

Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa

2005

The Godfather Comes to Sixth St.

19767.0

The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'

1968

Lights, Action, Music

20077.0

American Dream: Detroit

2018

The Dream Studio

200410.0

Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982

19827.0

Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'

20078.0

Tying the Knot

20046.2

Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us

2025

Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños

19997.0

A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola

1997

Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos

2016

Inside Mishima

1985

Cannoli

20085.0