
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 Daily Show

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Oscars

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

LIGHT & MAGIC

Saturday Night Live

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 Making of Captain EO

The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'

The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped

Filmmaker
Production Credits

Faerie Tale Theatre

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

Paper Moon

In the Name of the Father

The Beguiled

Priscilla

American Graffiti

The Rainmaker

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Jeepers Creepers 2

Sleepy Hollow

The Godfather Part III

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

The Outsiders

Is Paris Burning?

Oldboy

The Bling Ring

Jack

This Property Is Condemned

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Patton

Palo Alto

Peggy Sue Got Married

The Secret Garden

On the Rocks

The Godfather

Supernova

Gardens of Stone

The Last Showgirl

A Very Murray Christmas

The Great Gatsby

Filmmaker

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

Captain EO

Jeepers Creepers

The Good Shepherd

Mozart in the Jungle

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Marie Antoinette

The 4400

Twixt

Lost in Translation

The Odyssey

Apocalypse Now

The Conversation

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

The Outsiders

The Godfather Part II

Megalopolis

The Virgin Suicides
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