Francis Ford Coppola
Director

Francis Ford Coppola

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Birthday April 7, 1939 (87 years old)
Place of Birth Detroit, Michigan, USA
Also Known As Francis Coppola
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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 Awardsβ€”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.

Filmography (142)

Vittorio De Sica – La Vie in Scene 2026
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean 2026
Megadoc 2025
Films to Die For 2025
Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us 2025
The Making of Hearts of Darkness 2025
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story 2025
Lumière, Le Cinéma! 2024
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master 2024
The Family 2023
Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club 2023
Beau geste 2023
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinΓ©ma 2023
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called 2022
LIGHT & MAGIC 2022
Dans les secrets des films Star Wars 2022
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony 2021
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age 2021
Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola 2021
Morceaux de Cannes 2021
Directors on Directors 2021
Wim Wenders, Desperado 2020
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und TrΓ€umen 2020
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound 2019
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael 2019
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back 2019
American Dream: Detroit 2018
Friedkin Uncut 2018
Godfather I 2018
Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema 2018
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story 2017
Five Came Back 2017
Spielberg 2017
Five Came Back 2017
Marcians 2017
Jaime Lerner - Uma HistΓ³ria de Sonhos 2016
The Family Whistle 2016
Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son 2015
Reflections in Blood: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker’s Dracula 2015
Listen to Me Marlon 2015
Artistry/Technology 2015
Jay Leno's Garage 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 2015
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance 2014
Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto 2014
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire 2014
Henri Langlois vu par... 2014
Palo Alto 2014
The Director's Chair 2014
Seduced and Abandoned 2013
Milius 2013
Trespassing Bergman 2013
Twixt: A Documentary 2013
The Godfather Legacy 2012
A Conversation with Martin Sheen 2010
The People vs. George Lucas 2010
SodankylΓ€ Forever 2010
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale 2009
C Γ  vous 2009
Cannoli 2008
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather' 2008
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped 2008
The Last Days of Marlon Brando 2008
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't 2008
Coda: Thirty Years Later 2007
Fog City Mavericks 2007
Brando 2007
Lights, Action, Music 2007
The Making of Marie Antoinette 2007
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka 2007
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' 2007
Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula' 2007
In Camera: The NaΓ―ve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' 2007
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker' 2007
The Godfather and the Mob 2006
Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa 2005
George Lucas: Creating an Empire 2005
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders' 2005
Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa 2005
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found 2005
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish' 2005
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope 2004
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138' 2004
The Dream Studio 2004
Tying the Knot 2004
LeΓ§on de CinΓ©ma 2004
A Decade Under the Influence 2003
Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig 2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood 2003
On the Set of CQ 2002
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome 2001
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal 2001
The Making of The Virgin Suicides 2000
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor 1999
Coppola, un hombre y sus sueΓ±os 1999
The Making of 'American Graffiti' 1998
A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola 1997
Vem Var Dracula 1996
The Daily Show 1996
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein 1994
Marlon Brando: The Wild One 1994
The World of Jim Henson 1994
Inside the Actors Studio 1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien 1993
Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro 1992
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies 1992
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper 1991
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside 1990
Martin Scorsese Directs 1990
Central Park 1990
Hollywood Mavericks 1990
Death of a Porn Queen 1987
SacrΓ©e soirΓ©e 1987
The Making of Captain EO 1986
Inside Mishima 1985
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982 1982
The Making of 'One from the Heart' 1982
Late Night with David Letterman 1982
Inside the Coppola Personality 1981
Rendez-Vous Video Magazine 1981
Apocalypse Now 1979
The Kennedy Center Honors 1978
Please Turn the Page 1977
The Godfather Comes to Sixth St. 1976
The Lion Roars Again 1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche 1975
Saturday Night Live 1975
SpΓ©cial cinΓ©ma 1974
Dinah! 1974
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138' 1971
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes 1971
Great Performances 1971
Film '72 1971
The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow' 1968
Filmmaker 1968
The New Cinema 1968
The Young Racers 1963
War Hunt 1962
The Mike Douglas Show 1961
The Oscars 1953
Art Never Sleeps

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