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Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola’s screen credits include director work on The Godfather Part II, director and producer and writer work on Apocalypse Now, and director work on Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Born April 7, 1939 Detroit, Michigan, USA6 movies on MoviHero
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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. …
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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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- 2026Tribeca 250h 52m · DocumentarySelf
- 1992Bram Stoker's Dracula2h 8m · Horror · RomanceDirector
- 1990The Godfather Part III2h 42m · Crime · DramaDirector
- 1979Apocalypse Now2h 27m · Drama · WarDirector · Producer · Writer
- 1974The Godfather Part II3h 22m · Crime · DramaDirector
- 1972The Godfather2h 55m · Crime · DramaDirector
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- 2026Vittorio De Sica: Staging LifeSelf
- 2026Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David LeanSelf
- 2025Films to Die ForSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2025Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around UsSelf
- 2025The Making of Hearts of DarknessSelf
- 2025MegadocSelf
- 2025Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside StorySelf - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 2025Brother Verses BrotherProducer
- 2024Lumière, Le Cinéma!Self
- 2024MegalopolisWriter · Director · Producer
- 2024Shadow Brother SundayProducer
- 2024Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American MasterSelf (archive) - director
- 2023Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film ClubSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2023The FamilySelf
- 2022Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She CalledSelf (archive footage)
- 2021FredaProducer
- 2021Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford CoppolaSelf
- 2021Morceaux de CannesActor
- 2021Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden AgeSelf - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 2021Hannibal Hopkins & Sir AnthonySelf (archive footage)
- 2020Wim Wenders, DesperadoSelf
- 2019Maurice Hines: Bring Them BackSelf
- 2019Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic SoundSelf (archive footage)
- 2019What She Said: The Art of Pauline KaelSelf
- 2018Friedkin UncutSelf
- 2018American Dream: DetroitSelf - Interviewee
- 2018Godfather ISelf
- 2018Francis Ford Coppola's Live CinemaSelf
- 2017SpielbergSelf
- 2017Five Came BackSelf
- 2017Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love StorySelf
- 2016Jaime Lerner - Uma História de SonhosSelf
- 2016The Family WhistleSelf
- 2015Artistry/TechnologySelf
- 2015Listen to Me MarlonSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2014Marlon Brando: An Actor Named DesireSelf - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 2014Alfonso Sansone: Producer by ChanceSelf (archive footage)
- 2014Henri Langlois vu par...Director · Self
- 2014Behind the Scenes of Palo AltoSelf
- 2014Palo AltoThe Judge (voice) (uncredited)
- 2013Trespassing BergmanSelf
- 2013Twixt: A DocumentarySelf
- 2013The Bling RingProducer
- 2013Seduced and AbandonedSelf
- 2013MiliusSelf
- 2012The Godfather LegacySelf
- 2012On the RoadProducer
- 2011TwixtDirector · Producer · Writer
- 2010SomewhereProducer
- 2010A Conversation with Martin SheenSelf
- 2010The People vs. George LucasSelf (archive footage)
- 2009TetroDirector · Producer · Writer
- 2009I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John CazaleSelf
- 2008CannoliSelf
- 2008Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'Self
- 2008The Godfather: When the Shooting StoppedSelf
- 2008The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn'tSelf
- 2008The Last Days of Marlon BrandoSelf (archive Footage)
- 2007Coda: Thirty Years LaterProducer · Self
- 2007Youth Without YouthDirector · Producer · Writer
- 2007Fog City MavericksSelf
- 2007The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'Self (archive footage)
- 2007In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'Self
- 2007Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'Self
- 2007The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko IshiokaSelf
- 2007Lights, Action, MusicSelf
- 2007Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'Self
- 2007The Making of Marie AntoinetteSelf
- 2007BrandoSelf (archive footage)
- 2006The Good ShepherdProducer
- 2006Marie AntoinetteProducer
- 2006The Godfather and the MobSelf (archive footage)
- 2005Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'Self
- 2005On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'Self (archive footage)
- 2005Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and FoundSelf
- 2005Lucas, Coppola & KurosawaSelf
- 2005Lucas, Coppola, and KurosawaSelf
- 2004Tying the KnotSelf
- 2004A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American ZoetropeSelf
- 2004KinseyProducer
- 2004Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'Self
- 2004The Dream Studioself
- 2004Forever Is a Long, Long TimeProducer
- 2003Lost in TranslationProducer
- 2003Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of HedwigSelf
- 2003Jeepers Creepers 2Producer
- 2003A Decade Under the InfluenceSelf
- 2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved HollywoodSelf
- 2003Assassination TangoProducer
- 2003The Educational Archives: Sex & DrugsProducer
- 2002On the Set of CQSelf
- 2002PumpkinProducer
- 2002No Such ThingProducer
- 2002George Lucas: Creating an EmpireSelf
- 2001Another DayProducer
- 2001R2-D2: Beneath the DomeSelf
- 2001Breaking the Silence: The Making of HannibalSelf
- 2001The Legend of SuriyothaiProducer
- 2001Jeepers CreepersProducer
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