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Francis Ford Coppola
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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…
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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.
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2026
Tribeca 25
Movie Self
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2026
Pinocchio: Unstrung
Movie Thanks
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2026
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
Movie Self
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2026
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
Movie Self
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2025
Films to Die For
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2025
The Making of Hearts of Darkness
Movie Himself
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2025
Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us
Movie Himself
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2025
Megadoc
Movie Self
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2025
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Movie Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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2025
Brother Verses Brother
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
The Last Showgirl
Movie Thanks
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2024
Lumière, Le Cinéma!
Movie Self
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2024
The Preakness
Movie Thanks
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2024
Megalopolis
Movie Writer
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2024
Shadow Brother Sunday
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
Movie Self (archive) - director
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2023
Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2023
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
TV show Self - Guest
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2023
The Family
Movie Self
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2023
Beau geste
TV show Self
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2022
LIGHT & MAGIC
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2022
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Freda
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
Morceaux de Cannes
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2021
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Movie Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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2021
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Directors on Directors
TV show Self
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2020
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
TV show Self
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2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Movie Self
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2019
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
Movie Self
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2019
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Movie Self
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2018
Friedkin Uncut
Movie Self
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2018
American Dream: Detroit
Movie Self - Interviewee
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2018
Godfather I
Movie Self
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2018
Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema
Movie Self
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2017
Marcians
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2017
Spielberg
Movie Self
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2017
Five Came Back
TV show Self
