
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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The Oscars

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Light & Magic

Saturday Night Live

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night

Palo Alto

Apocalypse Now

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I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

Five Came Back

The Making of Captain EO

The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'

The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

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The Virgin Suicides

A Very Murray Christmas

Oldboy

The Godfather Part II

Palo Alto

Marie Antoinette

Sleepy Hollow

The Odyssey

Lost in Translation

The Godfather Part III

The 4400

Megalopolis

The Outsiders

Mozart in the Jungle

Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television

The Outsiders

Paper Moon

Gardens of Stone

Faerie Tale Theatre

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American Graffiti

Patton

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

The Rainmaker

Is Paris Burning?

Jeepers Creepers 2

In the Name of the Father

The Godfather

Priscilla

The Beguiled

On the Rocks

Supernova

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

This Property Is Condemned

The Bling Ring

The Great Gatsby

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

Apocalypse Now

The Conversation

Twixt

Peggy Sue Got Married

Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone

The Good Shepherd

Jack

Captain EO

The Secret Garden

Bram Stoker's Dracula

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