Cast

Francis Ford Coppola

Directing

Cast

Francis Ford Coppola

Known for

Directing

Born

1939-04-07

From

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Also known as Francis Coppola

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.

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Biography

Apocalypse Now

Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master

Spielberg

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

Central Park

Lumière, Le Cinéma!

Seduced and Abandoned

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

Palo Alto

The World of Jim Henson

Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life

Trespassing Bergman

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

Hollywood Mavericks

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

Artistry/Technology

Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club

Coda: Thirty Years Later

Megadoc

Martin Scorsese Directs

Henri Langlois vu par...

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Listen to Me Marlon

The People vs. George Lucas

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

Fog City Mavericks

Marlon Brando: The Wild One

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

Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

The Godfather Legacy

Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto

A Decade Under the Influence

Milius

Morceaux de Cannes

Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola

The Making of Captain EO

George Lucas: Creating an Empire

The Making of Hearts of Darkness

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

Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

Twixt: A Documentary

Five Came Back

The Making of Marie Antoinette

Art Never Sleeps

The Godfather and the Mob

Wim Wenders, Desperado

War Hunt

On the Set of CQ

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

Friedkin Uncut

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

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

Death of a Porn Queen

Godfather I

Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'

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

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

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

Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called

The Family

The New Cinema

Vem Var Dracula

Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema

The Lion Roars Again

The Young Racers

The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig

Tying the Knot

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

Lights, Action, Music

Filmmaker