Francis Ford Coppola
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.
Born: 07 April 1939
Played In
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
Self
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
Self
Films to Die For
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us
Himself
The Making of Hearts of Darkness
Himself
Megadoc
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Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Lumière, Le Cinéma!
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Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
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Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club
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Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
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The Family
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Beau geste
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LIGHT & MAGIC
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Dans les secrets des films Star Wars
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Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
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Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola
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Morceaux de Cannes
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Self (archive footage)
Directors on Directors
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Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
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Wim Wenders, Desperado
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Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Self (archive footage)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
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Friedkin Uncut
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American Dream: Detroit
Self - Interviewee
Godfather I
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Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema
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Marcians
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Spielberg
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Five Came Back
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Five Came Back
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Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
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Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos
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The Family Whistle
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Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son
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Reflections in Blood: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker’s Dracula
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Jay Leno's Garage
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Artistry/Technology
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Listen to Me Marlon
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Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
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Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
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Henri Langlois vu par...
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Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto
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The Director's Chair
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Palo Alto
The Judge (voice) (uncredited)
Trespassing Bergman
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Twixt: A Documentary
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Seduced and Abandoned
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Milius
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The Godfather Legacy
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A Conversation with Martin Sheen
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Sodankylä Forever
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The People vs. George Lucas
Self (archive footage)
C à vous
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I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
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Cannoli
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Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
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The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
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The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
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The Last Days of Marlon Brando
Self (archive Footage)
Coda: Thirty Years Later
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Fog City Mavericks
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The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Self (archive footage)
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
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In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
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Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'
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Lights, Action, Music
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Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
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The Making of Marie Antoinette
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Brando
Self (archive footage)
The Godfather and the Mob
Self (archive footage)
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
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On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
Self (archive footage)
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
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Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa
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George Lucas: Creating an Empire
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Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa
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Tying the Knot
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A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
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Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
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Leçon de Cinéma
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The Dream Studio
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Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
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A Decade Under the Influence
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
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On the Set of CQ
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R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
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Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
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The Making of The Virgin Suicides
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Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños
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Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
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The Making of 'American Graffiti'
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A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola
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Vem Var Dracula
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The Daily Show
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The World of Jim Henson
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It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
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Marlon Brando: The Wild One
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
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Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
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Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
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Hollywood Mavericks
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The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
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Martin Scorsese Directs
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Central Park
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Sacrée soirée
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Death of a Porn Queen
Self (archive footage)
The Making of Captain EO
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Inside Mishima
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Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
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The Making of 'One from the Heart'
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Late Night with David Letterman
Self - Guest
Inside the Coppola Personality
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Rendez-Vous Video Magazine
Self (segment "Coppola")
Apocalypse Now
Director of TV Crew (uncredited)
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self - Honoree
Please Turn the Page
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The Godfather Comes to Sixth St.
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Saturday Night Live
Self - Director
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
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The Lion Roars Again
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Dinah!
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Spécial cinéma
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Film '72
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Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
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Great Performances
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The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
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Filmmaker
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The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'
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The New Cinema
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The Young Racers
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War Hunt
Army Truck Driver (uncredited)
The Mike Douglas Show
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The Oscars
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Art Never Sleeps
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