Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola

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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.

Films Featuring Francis Ford Coppola

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

19947.7

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

19917.9

A Conversation with Martin Sheen

2010

A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola

1997

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

20096.9

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

2014

Coda: Thirty Years Later

Coda: Thirty Years Later

20074.8

Fog City Mavericks

20078.5

The Family

20236.0

The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'

1968

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

19907.8

The Making of Captain EO

19866.9

Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa

2005

Cannoli

Cannoli

20085.0

Kurosawa: The Last Emperor

19996.2

Seduced and Abandoned

20136.2

Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro

Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro

19926.3

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

20047.6

Milius

20137.1

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

20214.6

George Lucas: Creating an Empire

20055.0

Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'

Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'

20047.0

The Godfather Comes to Sixth St.

The Godfather Comes to Sixth St.

19767.0

The Dream Studio

200410.0

Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called

20227.5

Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'

19716.7

Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper

Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper

1991

The Godfather Legacy

20127.2

The People vs. George Lucas

20106.3

War Hunt

19626.4

Filmmaker

19687.3

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

20196.9

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

20196.7

The Godfather: Behind the Scenes

1971

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

20176.8

Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños

Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños

19997.0

Brando

20076.8

Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies

19926.4

The Young Racers

19635.3

Megadoc

20256.5

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

19987.8

The New Cinema

1968

Inside the Coppola Personality

19817.5

The Godfather and the Mob

20067.0

Apocalypse Now

19798.3

Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos

2016

A Decade Under the Influence

20037.9

Listen to Me Marlon

20157.5

Five Came Back

20177.9

Rendez-Vous Video Magazine

19815.0

Spielberg

20177.5

Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982

19827.0

Martin Scorsese Directs

19909.0

Trespassing Bergman

20136.6

American Dream: Detroit

2018

The Family Whistle

20166.0

Central Park

19907.5

Friedkin Uncut

20187.1

Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto

20146.0

Godfather I

2018

Hollywood Mavericks

19907.3

Art Never Sleeps

Art Never Sleeps

Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig

20037.5

Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'

20087.0

The Making of The Virgin Suicides

20007.2

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

20147.2

Marlon Brando: The Wild One

19946.5

Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema

201810.0

The Making of 'One from the Heart'

19828.5

The World of Jim Henson

19947.4

Henri Langlois vu par...

20145.0

Twixt: A Documentary

2013

Palo Alto

20146.1

Lights, Action, Music

20077.0

The Making of Marie Antoinette

20075.0

Wim Wenders, Desperado

20207.7

Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back

20195.0

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

20016.7

The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka

20077.7

In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'

20078.0

The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'

20078.0

Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'

20078.0

The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped

20086.6

The Last Days of Marlon Brando

20087.0

The Lion Roars Again

The Lion Roars Again

19756.5

Tying the Knot

20046.2

Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal

20017.1

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

20217.8

The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

20087.2

Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola

Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola

20217.0

Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'

20059.0

Inside Mishima

1985

Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa

Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa

2005

Lumière, Le Cinéma!

20247.0

Artistry/Technology

2015

Films to Die For

2025

Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found

20058.0

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

20037.1

Death of a Porn Queen

19871.0

On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'

20058.0

Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club

20236.9

Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us

2025

The Making of Hearts of Darkness

2025

Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'

2007

On the Set of CQ

On the Set of CQ

20027.0

Morceaux de Cannes

20212.0

Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master

20248.1

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

20257.5

Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life

2026

Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean

2026