Francis Ford Coppola
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.
Filmography (53)
Pinocchio: Unstrung
Megalopolis
The Last Showgirl
Paris Can Wait
Palo Alto
Oldboy
The Bling Ring
On the Road
Somewhere
Tetro
Youth Without Youth
The Good Shepherd
Marie Antoinette
She Hate Me
Lost in Translation
Jeepers Creepers 2
Jeepers Creepers
CQ
The Virgin Suicides
Sleepy Hollow
The Third Miracle
The Rainmaker
Jack
My Family
Haunted
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Don Juan DeMarco
In the Name of the Father
The Secret Garden
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Godfather Part III
New York Stories
Barfly
Tough Guys Don't Dance
Gardens of Stone
Peggy Sue Got Married
The Cotton Club
The Outsiders
Rumble Fish
One from the Heart
Apocalypse Now
The Black Stallion
The Godfather Part II
The Conversation
The Great Gatsby
American Graffiti
Paper Moon
The Way We Were
The Godfather
THX 1138
Patton
The Rain People
