
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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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Oscars

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

LIGHT & MAGIC

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SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night

Palo Alto

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 Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

The Making of Captain EO

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

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Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'

The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
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In the Name of the Father

Jeepers Creepers

Faerie Tale Theatre

Lost in Translation

Is Paris Burning?

Marie Antoinette

The Godfather

The Secret Garden

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

A Very Murray Christmas

The Last Showgirl

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

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Peggy Sue Got Married

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Captain EO

This Property Is Condemned

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The Virgin Suicides

Twixt

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Oldboy

Palo Alto

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Paper Moon

Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone

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Sleepy Hollow

American Graffiti

Jeepers Creepers 2

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

The Godfather Part III

The Conversation

The Good Shepherd

The Godfather Part II

Priscilla

The Outsiders

Supernova

Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
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