1939-04-07 ( 85 years old ) in Detroit, Michigan, USA
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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Movies
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The Family
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Becoming Al Pacino
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Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
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Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020-07-16
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
2019-11-10
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019-10-25
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019-03-22
Friedkin Uncut
2018-11-05
American Dream: Detroit
2018-05-01
Godfather I
2018-01-29
Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema
2018-01-10
Spielberg
2017-10-05
Five Came Back
2017-03-31
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
2017-02-01
Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos
2016-09-08
The Family Whistle
2016-05-19
Listen to Me Marlon
2015-07-29
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014-09-20
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014-09-10
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014-07-27
Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto
2014-05-28
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
Palo Alto
2013-12-29
Trespassing Bergman
2013-08-28
Twixt: A Documentary
2013-07-23
Seduced and Abandoned
2013-05-20
Milius
2013-03-09
The Godfather Legacy
2012-07-12
Sodankylä Forever
2010-08-05
A Conversation with Martin Sheen
2010-06-20
The People vs. George Lucas
2010-03-14
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009-01-16
Cannoli
2008-09-23
Clemenza
2008-09-23
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
2008-09-23
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
2008-09-23
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008-06-03
The Last Days of Marlon Brando
2008-03-01
Coda: Thirty Years Later
2007-12-09
Fog City Mavericks
2007-10-24
Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'
2007-10-02
Lights, Action, Music
2007-08-06
The Making of Marie Antoinette
2007-07-02
Brando
2007-05-01
The Godfather and the Mob
2006-04-25
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
2005-09-20
Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa
2005-03-29
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
2005-01-27
Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa
2005-01-01
Tying the Knot
2004-10-01
The Dream Studio
2004-01-01
A Decade Under the Influence
2003-04-25
The Kid Stays in the Picture
2002-08-16
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001-11-25
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001-08-21
The Making of The Virgin Suicides
2000-12-19
Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños
1999-02-22
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
1999-01-01
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998-09-15
Vem Var Dracula
1996-10-02
The World of Jim Henson
1994-11-23
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994-10-25
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
1994-08-11
Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro
1992-01-01
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991-11-27
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
1991-05-17
Hollywood Mavericks
1990-09-07
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990-07-12
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990-06-16
Central Park
1990-04-01
The Making of Captain EO
1986-09-12
Inside Mishima
1985-10-23
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
1982-09-15
The Making of 'One from the Heart'
1982-08-14
Inside the Coppola Personality
1981-01-01
Rendez-Vous Video Magazine
1981-01-01
Apocalypse Now
1979-05-19
The Godfather Comes to Sixth St.
1976-10-23
The Lion Roars Again
1975-01-01
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
1971-03-01
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
1971-01-01
Filmmaker
1968-12-01
The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'
1968-01-01
The New Cinema
1968-01-01
The Young Racers
1963-01-01
War Hunt
1962-05-01
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