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
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 Making of Captain EO
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
'The Godfather' Family: A Look Inside
Filmmaker
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
Production Credits
Patton
The Great Gatsby
Filmmaker
The Godfather
Gardens of Stone
The Godfather Part II
The Conversation
Is Paris Burning?
Peggy Sue Got Married
Faerie Tale Theatre
The Odyssey
Marie Antoinette
The Outsiders
The Outsiders
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Twixt
Captain EO
Sleepy Hollow
This Property Is Condemned
Jeepers Creepers 2
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
The Rainmaker
The Godfather Trilogy
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather Epic: 1901-1959
The Bling Ring
American Graffiti
Paper Moon
Jeepers Creepers
The Godfather Part III
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Lost in Translation
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Secret Garden
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