Francis Ford Coppola
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Biography
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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Known For
The Oscars
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Saturday Night Live
Palo Alto
Apocalypse Now
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Five Came Back
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
The Making of Captain EO
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
Filmmaker
Production Credits
The Virgin Suicides
The Godfather Part III
Twixt
Peggy Sue Got Married
Faerie Tale Theatre
Sleepy Hollow
In the Name of the Father
Oldboy
The Outsiders
Megalopolis
The Godfather Epic: 1901-1959
Mozart in the Jungle
The Great Gatsby
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
The Outsiders
The Conversation
Gardens of Stone
Jeepers Creepers 2
Supernova
Lost in Translation
Filmmaker
This Property Is Condemned
Patton
Is Paris Burning?
The 4400
Paper Moon
The Bling Ring
The Rainmaker
Marie Antoinette
The Godfather Part II
American Graffiti
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
Jeepers Creepers
Priscilla
Jack
Captain EO
The Godfather
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Palo Alto
A Very Murray Christmas
The Good Shepherd
The Secret Garden
The Beguiled
Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
The Odyssey
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
Apocalypse Now
On the Rocks
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