Francis Ford Coppola

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Francis Ford Coppola, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Directing

Born: Detroit, Michigan, USA, 1939-04-07

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	War Hunt	Army Truck Driver (uncredited)	65
2	1963	The Young Racers		50
3	1968	The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'	Self	0
4	1968	The New Cinema	Self	0
5	1968	Filmmaker	Self	71
6	1971	The Godfather: Behind the Scenes	Self	0
7	1971	Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'	Self	62
8	1976	The Godfather Comes to Sixth St.	Self	0
9	1981	Inside the Coppola Personality	Self	70
10	1986	The Making of Captain EO	Self	67
11	1990	The Godfather Family: A Look Inside	Self	77
12	1991	Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper	Self	0
13	1991	Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse	Self	79
14	1992	Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro	Self	60
15	1992	Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.	Self	63
16	1994	It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein	Self	85
17	1996	Vem Var Dracula	Self	0
18	1997	A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola	Self	0
19	1998	The Making of 'American Graffiti'	Self	78
20	1999	Kurosawa: The Last Emperor	Self	55
21	1999	Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños	Self	0
22	2002	The Kid Stays in the Picture	Self (archive footage)	66
23	2004	The Dream Studio	self	0
24	2004	Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'	Self	68
25	2004	A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope	Self	75
26	2005	George Lucas: Creating an Empire	Self	0
27	2005	Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa	Self	0
28	2006	The Godfather and the Mob	Self (archive footage)	70
29	2007	Brando	Self (archive footage)	68
30	2007	Fog City Mavericks	Self	85
31	2007	Coda: Thirty Years Later	Self	48
32	2008	Clemenza	Self	50
33	2008	Cannoli	Self	50
34	2009	I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale	Self	68
35	2010	The People vs. George Lucas	Self (archive footage)	64
36	2010	A Conversation with Martin Sheen	Self	0
37	2012	The Godfather Legacy	Self	71
38	2013	Milius	Self	71
39	2013	Seduced and Abandoned	Self	62
40	2014	Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance	Self (archive footage)	0
41	2015	Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son	Self	0
42	2015	Reflections in Blood: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker’s Dracula	Self	0
43	2017	Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story	Self	68
44	2019	What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael	Self	66
45	2019	Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound	Self (archive footage)	68
46	2021	Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony	Self (archive footage)	45
47	2022	Becoming Al Pacino	Self (archive footage)	73
48	2022	Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called	Self (archive footage)	76
49	2023	The Family	Self	80
50	2023	Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain	Self	86
51		Megadoc	Self	0
52	1975	The Lion Roars Again	Self	0
53	1979	Apocalypse Now	Director of TV Crew (uncredited)	83
54	1981	Rendez-Vous Video Magazine	Self (segment "Coppola")	50
55	1982	The Making of 'One from the Heart'	Self	80
56	1982	Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982	Self	0
57	1985	Inside Mishima	Self	0
58	1990	Central Park	Self	74
59	1990	Martin Scorsese Directs	Self	90
60	1990	Hollywood Mavericks	Self	60
61	1994	Marlon Brando: The Wild One	Self	60
62	1994	The World of Jim Henson	Self	73
63	2000	The Making of The Virgin Suicides	Self	72
64	2001	Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal	Self	66
65	2001	R2-D2: Beneath the Dome	Self	65
66	2003	A Decade Under the Influence	Self	80
67	2003	Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig	Self	70
68	2004	Tying the Knot	Self	64
69	2005	Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa	Self	0
70	2005	Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'	Self	0
71	2007	The Making of Marie Antoinette	Self	50
72	2007	Lights, Action, Music	Self	70
73	2007	The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka	Self	77
74	2007	Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'	Self	80
75	2007	In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'	Self	80
76	2007	The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'	Self (archive footage)	80
77	2008	The Last Days of Marlon Brando	Self (archive Footage)	70
78	2008	The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't	Self	65
79	2008	Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'	Self	65
80	2008	The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped	Self	60
81	2010	Sodankylä Forever	Self	0
82	2013	Twixt: A Documentary	Self	0
83	2013	Trespassing Bergman	Self	66
84	2013	Palo Alto	The Judge (voice) (uncredited)	61
85	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
86	2014	Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto	Self	60
87	2014	Henri Langlois vu par...	Self	0
88	2014	Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire	Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)	73
89	2015	Listen to Me Marlon	Self (archive footage)	75
90	2016	The Family Whistle	Self	60
91	2016	Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos	Self	0
92	2017	Five Came Back	Self	79
93	2017	Spielberg	Self	76
94	2018	Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema	Self	100
95	2018	Godfather I	Self	0
96	2018	American Dream: Detroit	Self - Interviewee	0
97	2018	Friedkin Uncut	Self	70
98		Art Never Sleeps	Self	0
99	2019	Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back	Self	50
100	2020	Wim Wenders, Desperado	Self	77
101	2021	Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age	Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)	78
102	2021	Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola	Self	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Oscars	Self	69
2	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	51
3	1971	Great Performances	Self	54
4	1974	Spécial cinéma	Self	0
5	1974	Dinah!	Self	65
6	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
7	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Cameo (uncredited)	69
8	1977	Bitte umblättern	Self	60
9	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	62
10	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	71
11	1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self	74
12	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
13	2004	Leçon de Cinéma	Self	70
14	2009	C à vous	Self - Guest	60
15	2014	The Director's Chair	Self	70
16	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	65
17	2015	Jay Leno's Garage	Self	75
18	2017	Five Came Back	Self	72
19	2017	Marcians	Self	0
20	2020	Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen	Self	100
21	2021	Variety Studio: Directors on Directors	Self	0
22	2023	Beau geste	Self	0
23	2023	Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma	Self - Guest	0
24	2025	SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night	Self	73