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Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Birthday: 1939-04-07 | Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Francis Ford Coppola, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2018
Friedkin Uncut

as    Self

2017
Five Came Back

as    Self

2017
Spielberg

as    Self

2015
Listen to Me Marlon

as    Self (archive footage)

2013
Seduced and Abandoned

as    Self

2013
Milius

as    Self

2012
The Godfather Legacy

as    Self

2010
The People vs. George Lucas

as    Self (archive footage)

2007
Fog City Mavericks

as    Himself

2004
Tying the Knot

as    Self

2003
2002
The Kid Stays in the Picture

as    Self (archive footage)

2001
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

as    Self

1998
1989
Central Park

as    Himself

1986
The Making of Captain EO

as    Self

1971
1962
War Hunt

as    Army Truck Driver (uncredited)