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Born April 7, 1939 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
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.

Megalopolis
2024

The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
2016

Henri Langlois vu par...
2014

Twixt
2011

Tetro
2009

Youth Without Youth
2007

One Morning All Over the World
2000

The Rainmaker
1997

Jack
1996

Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992

The Godfather Part III
1990

New York Stories
1989

Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988

Gardens of Stone
1987

Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle
1987

Peggy Sue Got Married
1986

Captain EO
1986

The Cotton Club
1984

Rumble Fish
1983

The Outsiders
1983

One from the Heart
1982

Jerry Brown: The Shape of Things to Come
1980

Apocalypse Now
1979

The Godfather Part II
1974

The Conversation
1974

The Godfather
1972

The Rain People
1969

Finian's Rainbow
1968

You're a Big Boy Now
1966

Dementia 13
1963

The Peeper
1962

Tonight for Sure
1962

The Bellboy and the Playgirls
1962

Battle Beyond the Sun
1959

No Cigar
1956
Glimpses of the Moon

Films to Die For
2025

Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us
2025

The Making of Hearts of Darkness
2025

Megadoc
2025

Lumière! The Adventure Continues
2024

Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
2024

Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club
2023

The Family
2023

Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
2022
Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola
2021

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
2021

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021

Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020

Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
2019

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
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

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