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Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Film director and producer from the United States

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Person
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CEO of
The Godfather
The Godfather
Founder of
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Zoetrope: All-Story
Birthdate
April 7, 1939
Birthplace
Detroit
Detroit
Author of
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Bram Stoker's Dracula
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Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now
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The Godfather. Part two
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Case for People's Quantitative Easing
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Rumble Fish
Rumble Fish
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Coppola and Eiko on Bram Stoker's Dracula
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Koyaanisqatsi
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Owner of
Inglenook (winery)
Inglenook (winery)
Creator of
The Conversation
The Conversation
Director of (Film)
The Godfather
The Godfather
TwixT
TwixT
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the godfather: part III
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The Trail of Hate
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Jack
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now
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Youth Without Youth
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Tetro
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Educated at
Hofstra University
Hofstra University
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
New York Military Academy
New York Military Academy
Jamaica High School
Jamaica High School
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John L. Miller Great Neck North High School
Awards Received
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Academy Award for Best Director
Occupation
Composer
Composer
Film producer
Film producer
Screenwriter
Screenwriter
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film editor
Musician
Musician
Author
Author
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Writer
Writer
Film director
Film director
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ISNI
000000011480194X0
Open Library ID
OL835402A0
VIAF
1127444060

Other attributes

Child
Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola
Roman Coppola
Roman Coppola
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Gian-Carlo Coppola
Citizenship
United States
United States
Father
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Carmine Coppola
Father of
Roman Coppola
Roman Coppola
Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola
Genre
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New Hollywood
Industry
Cinematography
Cinematography
Movie
Movie
Film industry
Film industry
Member of Board of Directors of
The Conversation
The Conversation
Mother
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Italia Coppola
Notable Work
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather Part III
The Godfather Part III
The Conversation
The Conversation
The Godfather Part II
The Godfather Part II
The Rain People
The Rain People
The Godfather
The Godfather
Rumble Fish
Rumble Fish
Wikidata ID
Q56094

Francis Ford Coppola was born on April 7, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., but grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician. His mother, Italia Coppola, had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated with a degree in drama from Hofstra University, and did graduate work at UCLA in filmmaking. He was training as assistant with filmmaker Roger Corman, working in such capacities as sound-man, dialogue director, associate producer and, eventually, director of Dementia 13 (1963), Coppola's first feature film.

After directing The Rain People in 1969, Coppola co-wrote Patton (1970), earning the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay along with Edmund H. North. Coppola's reputation as a filmmaker was cemented with the release of The Godfather (1972), which revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre and had a strong commercial and critical reception. The Godfather won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay (shared with Mario Puzo).

The Godfather Part II, which followed in 1974, became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Highly regarded by critics, the film brought Coppola three more Academy Awards—Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture—making him the second director (after Billy Wilder) to be so honored three times for the same film. The Conversation, which Coppola directed, produced and wrote, was released that same year, winning the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. His next film, Apocalypse Now (1979), which notoriously had a lengthy and strenuous production, was widely acclaimed for vividly depicting the Vietnam War. The film won the Palme d'Or, making Coppola one of only eight filmmakers to have won that award twice.

His best-known films released since the start of the 1980s are the 1983 dramas The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, the crime dramas The Cotton Club (1984) and The Godfather Part III (1990), and the 1992 romantic-horror film Bram Stoker's Dracula, based on the novel of the same name. A number of Coppola's relatives and children have become famous actors and filmmakers in their own right: his sister Talia Shire is an actress, his daughter Sofia and granddaughter Gia are directors, his son Roman is a screenwriter, and his nephews Jason Schwartzman and Nicolas Cage are actors. Coppola resides in Napa, California, and since the 2010s has been a vintner, owning a family-brand as well as a winery of his own.

Fifty years after he gave us The Godfather, the iconic director is chasing his grandest project yet—and putting up over $100 million of his own money to prove his best work is still ahead of him. It is a film called Megalopolis, and Coppola has been trying to make it, intermittently, for more than 40 years.

It's a love story that is also a philosophical investigation of the nature of man; it's set in New York, but a New York steeped in echoes of ancient Rome; its scale and ambition are vast enough that Coppola has estimated that it will cost $120 million to make. What he dreams about, he said, is creating something like It's a Wonderful Life—a movie everyone goes to see, once a year, forever. “On New Year's, instead of talking about the fact that you're going to give up carbohydrates, I'd like this one question to be discussed, which is: Is the society we live in the only one available to us? And discuss it.”

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

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The Director's Chair (TV Series 2014-2018)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3595002/?ref_=filmo_li_tt

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The Godfather (1972)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/?ref_=nmbio_mbio

Web

March 24, 1972

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (Video 1992)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150742/?ref_=filmo_li_tt

Web

October 30, 1992

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071562/?ref_=nmbio_mbio

Web

December 18, 1974

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