Francis Ford Coppola
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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Acting (89 movies)
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
A Conversation with Martin Sheen
2010
A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola
1997
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014
Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son
2015
Reflections in Blood: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker’s Dracula
2015
Fog City Mavericks
2007
The Family
2023
The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'
1968
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990
The Making of Captain EO
1986
Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa
2005
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
1999
Seduced and Abandoned
2013
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
Milius
2013
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
2005
The Dream Studio
2004
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
2022
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
1971
The Godfather Legacy
2012
Vem Var Dracula
1996
The People vs. George Lucas
2010
War Hunt
1962
Filmmaker
1968
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
2023
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
2017
Brando
2007
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
1992
The Young Racers
1963
Megadoc
2025
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998
The New Cinema
1968
Inside the Coppola Personality
1981
The Godfather and the Mob
2006
Apocalypse Now
1979
Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos
2016
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
Listen to Me Marlon
2015
Five Came Back
2017
Rendez-Vous Video Magazine
1981
Spielberg
2017
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
1982
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990
Trespassing Bergman
2013
American Dream: Detroit
2018
The Family Whistle
2016
Central Park
1990
Friedkin Uncut
2018
Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto
2014
Godfather I
2018
Hollywood Mavericks
1990
Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
2003
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
2008
The Making of The Virgin Suicides
2000
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
1994
Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema
2018
The Making of 'One from the Heart'
1982
The World of Jim Henson
1994
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
Twixt: A Documentary
2013
Palo Alto
2013
Lights, Action, Music
2007
The Making of Marie Antoinette
2007
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
2019
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
2007
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007
Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'
2007
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
2008
The Last Days of Marlon Brando
2008
Sodankylä Forever
2010
Tying the Knot
2004
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
2021
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
2005
Inside Mishima
1985
Lumière! The Adventure Continues
2024
Artistry/Technology
2015
Films to Die For
2025
Directing (33 movies)
Apocalypse Now
1979
Rumble Fish
1983
The Godfather Part III
1990
The Outsiders
1983
The Conversation
1974
Peggy Sue Got Married
1986
The Cotton Club
1984
Jerry Brown: The Shape of Things to Come
1980
No Cigar
1956
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992
Jack
1996
Tetro
2009
The Rainmaker
1997
Youth Without Youth
2007
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988
Gardens of Stone
1987
Dementia 13
1963
One from the Heart
1982
Finian's Rainbow
1968
You're a Big Boy Now
1966
The Rain People
1969
Twixt
2011
Tonight for Sure
1962
The Bellboy and the Playgirls
1962
The Peeper
1962
Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle
1987
One Morning All Over the World
2000
New York Stories
1989
Megalopolis
2024
The Godfather
1972
The Godfather Part II
1974
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
Captain EO
1986
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Bellboy and the Playgirls | 1962 | Writer |
| Tonight for Sure | 1962 | Writer |
| Tonight for Sure | 1962 | Producer |
| The Peeper | 1962 | Writer |
| The Haunted Palace | 1963 | Writer |
| Dementia 13 | 1963 | Writer |
| This Property Is Condemned | 1966 | Screenplay |
| Is Paris Burning? | 1966 | Screenplay |
| You're a Big Boy Now | 1966 | Writer |
| Filmmaker | 1968 | Producer |
| The Rain People | 1969 | Writer |
| The Rain People | 1969 | Producer |
| Patton | 1970 | Screenplay |
| THX 1138 | 1971 | Executive Producer |
| The People | 1972 | Executive Producer |
| The Godfather | 1972 | Screenplay |
| The Godfather | 1972 | Producer |
| Paper Moon | 1973 | Executive Producer |
| American Graffiti | 1973 | Producer |
| The Way We Were | 1973 | Writer |
| The Great Gatsby | 1974 | Screenplay |
| The Conversation | 1974 | Producer |
| The Conversation | 1974 | Writer |
| The Godfather Part II | 1974 | Producer |
| The Godfather Part II | 1974 | Screenplay |
| Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Producer |
| Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Original Music Composer |
| Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Writer |
| The Black Stallion | 1979 | Executive Producer |
| Jerry Brown: The Shape of Things to Come | 1980 | Executive Producer |
| Kagemusha | 1980 | Executive Producer |
| An All Round Maid | 1981 | Producer |
| One from the Heart | 1982 | Screenplay |
| Parsifal | 1982 | Executive Producer |
| The Escape Artist | 1982 | Executive Producer |
| Hammett | 1982 | Executive Producer |
| The Making of 'One from the Heart' | 1982 | Executive Producer |
| The Black Stallion Returns | 1983 | Executive Producer |
| The Outsiders | 1983 | Producer |
| Koyaanisqatsi | 1983 | Executive Producer |
| Rumble Fish | 1983 | Screenplay |
| Rumble Fish | 1983 | Executive Producer |
| The Cotton Club | 1984 | Screenplay |
| The Cotton Club | 1984 | Producer |
| Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | 1985 | Executive Producer |
| Captain EO | 1986 | Producer |
| Captain EO | 1986 | Writer |
| Peggy Sue Got Married | 1986 | Producer |
| Gardens of Stone | 1987 | Producer |
| Lionheart | 1987 | Executive Producer |
| Barfly | 1987 | Executive Producer |
| Tough Guys Don't Dance | 1987 | Executive Producer |
| Powaqqatsi | 1988 | Executive Producer |
| Tucker: The Man and His Dream | 1988 | Producer |
| New York Stories | 1989 | Writer |
| The Godfather Family: A Look Inside | 1990 | Executive Producer |
| The Godfather Part III | 1990 | Screenplay |
| The Godfather Part III | 1990 | Producer |
| Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Executive Producer |
| Wind | 1992 | Executive Producer |
| Bram Stoker's Dracula | 1992 | Producer |
| The Junky's Christmas | 1993 | Producer |
| The Secret Garden | 1993 | Executive Producer |
| Ironbound | 1994 | Producer |
| Traveling Light | 1994 | Producer |
| Don Juan DeMarco | 1994 | Producer |
| Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | 1994 | Producer |
| The Conversation | 1995 | Producer |
| My Family | 1995 | Executive Producer |
| White Dwarf | 1995 | Executive Producer |
| Tecumseh: The Last Warrior | 1995 | Executive Producer |
| Haunted | 1995 | Executive Producer |
| Kidnapped | 1995 | Executive Producer |
| Jack | 1996 | Producer |
| Dark Angel | 1996 | Executive Producer |
| Survival on the Mountain | 1997 | Executive Producer |
| Buddy | 1997 | Executive Producer |
| The Rainmaker | 1997 | Screenplay |
| The Rainmaker | 1997 | Producer |
| Outrage | 1998 | Executive Producer |
| Lani Loa: The Passage | 1998 | Executive Producer |
| The Florentine | 1999 | Producer |
| Goosed | 1999 | Executive Producer |
| The Third Miracle | 1999 | Executive Producer |
| Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | Executive Producer |
| The Virgin Suicides | 2000 | Producer |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 2000 | Executive Producer |
| CQ | 2001 | Executive Producer |
| Jeepers Creepers | 2001 | Executive Producer |
| The Legend of Suriyothai | 2001 | Executive Producer |
| Another Day | 2001 | Executive Producer |
| No Such Thing | 2002 | Executive Producer |
| Pumpkin | 2002 | Executive Producer |
| The Educational Archives: Sex & Drugs | 2003 | Executive Producer |
| Assassination Tango | 2003 | Executive Producer |
| Jeepers Creepers 2 | 2003 | Executive Producer |
| Lost in Translation | 2003 | Executive Producer |
| Forever Is a Long, Long Time | 2004 | Executive Producer |
| Kinsey | 2004 | Executive Producer |
| Marie Antoinette | 2006 | Executive Producer |
| The Good Shepherd | 2006 | Executive Producer |
| Youth Without Youth | 2007 | Producer |
| Youth Without Youth | 2007 | Writer |
| Coda: Thirty Years Later | 2007 | Executive Producer |
| Tetro | 2009 | Producer |
| Tetro | 2009 | Writer |
| Somewhere | 2010 | Executive Producer |
| Twixt | 2011 | Producer |
| Twixt | 2011 | Writer |
| On the Road | 2012 | Executive Producer |
| The Bling Ring | 2013 | Executive Producer |
| Freda | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| Shadow Brother Sunday | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| Megalopolis | 2024 | Writer |
| Megalopolis | 2024 | Producer |
| Brother Verses Brother | 2025 | Executive Producer |