Francis Ford Coppola
Directing
- Born:
- 1939-04-07
- Place of birth:
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
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 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.
Known For
Filmography
Making Marie Antoinette
Tribeca 25
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
Films to Die For
Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us
The Making of Hearts of Darkness
Megadoc
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Lumière, Le Cinéma!
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
The Family
Beau geste
LIGHT & MAGIC
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola
Morceaux de Cannes
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Directors on Directors
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Friedkin Uncut
American Dream: Detroit
Godfather I
Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema
Marcians
Spielberg
Five Came Back
Five Came Back
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos
The Family Whistle
Jay Leno's Garage
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Artistry/Technology
Listen to Me Marlon
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Henri Langlois vu par...
Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto
The Director's Chair
Palo Alto
Trespassing Bergman
Twixt: A Documentary
Seduced and Abandoned
Milius
The Godfather Legacy
A Conversation with Martin Sheen
Sodankylä Forever
The People vs. George Lucas
C à vous
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Cannoli
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
The Last Days of Marlon Brando
Coda: Thirty Years Later
Fog City Mavericks
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'
Lights, Action, Music
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
The Making of Marie Antoinette
Brando
The Godfather and the Mob
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa
Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa
Tying the Knot
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
Leçon de Cinéma
The Dream Studio
Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
A Decade Under the Influence
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
On the Set of CQ
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
The Making of The Virgin Suicides
Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola
The Daily Show
The World of Jim Henson
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Inside the Actors Studio
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
Hollywood Mavericks
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
Martin Scorsese Directs
Central Park
Sacrée soirée
Death of a Porn Queen
The Making of Captain EO
Inside Mishima
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
The Making of 'One from the Heart'
Late Night with David Letterman
Inside the Coppola Personality
Rendez-Vous Video Magazine
Apocalypse Now
The Kennedy Center Honors
The South Bank Show
Please Turn the Page
The Godfather Comes to Sixth St.
Saturday Night Live
Arena
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
The Lion Roars Again
Dinah!
Spécial cinéma
Film '72
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
Great Performances
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
Filmmaker
The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'
The New Cinema
The Young Racers
War Hunt
The Mike Douglas Show
The Oscars
Art Never Sleeps
Close-Up on The Conversation