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Francis Ford Coppola
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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…
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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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BODY OF WORK
Francis Ford Coppola's Filmography
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Making Marie Antoinette
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Tribeca 25
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Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
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Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
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Films to Die For
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Making of Hearts of Darkness
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Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us
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Megadoc
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Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Lumière, Le Cinéma!
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Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
as Self (archive) - director
Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Family
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Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola
as Self
Morceaux de Cannes
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)
Wim Wenders, Desperado
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Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
as Self (archive footage)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
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Friedkin Uncut
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American Dream: Detroit
as Self - Interviewee
Godfather I
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Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema
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Spielberg
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Five Came Back
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Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
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Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos
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The Family Whistle
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Artistry/Technology
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Listen to Me Marlon
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
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Henri Langlois vu par...
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Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto
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Palo Alto
as The Judge (voice) (uncredited)
Trespassing Bergman
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Twixt: A Documentary
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Seduced and Abandoned
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Milius
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The Godfather Legacy
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A Conversation with Martin Sheen
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The People vs. George Lucas
as Self (archive footage)
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
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Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
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The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
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No Poster
Cannoli
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The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
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The Last Days of Marlon Brando
as Self (archive Footage)
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Coda: Thirty Years Later
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Fog City Mavericks
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The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
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In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
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The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
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Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'
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Lights, Action, Music
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Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
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The Making of Marie Antoinette
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Brando
as Self (archive footage)
The Godfather and the Mob
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Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
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On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
as Self (archive footage)
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
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Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa
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Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa
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Tying the Knot
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A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
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No Poster
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
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The Dream Studio
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Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
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A Decade Under the Influence
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
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No Poster
On the Set of CQ
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George Lucas: Creating an Empire
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R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
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Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
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The Making of The Virgin Suicides
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No Poster
Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños
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Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
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The Making of 'American Graffiti'
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A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola
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The World of Jim Henson
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It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
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Marlon Brando: The Wild One
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Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
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No Poster
Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
as Self
No Poster
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
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Hollywood Mavericks
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The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
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Martin Scorsese Directs
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Central Park
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Death of a Porn Queen
as Self (archive footage)
The Making of Captain EO
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Inside Mishima
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Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
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The Making of 'One from the Heart'
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Rendez-Vous Video Magazine
as Self (segment "Coppola")
Inside the Coppola Personality
as Self
Apocalypse Now
as Director of TV Crew (uncredited)
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The Godfather Comes to Sixth St.
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The Lion Roars Again
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Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
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The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
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Filmmaker
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The New Cinema
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The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'
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The Young Racers
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War Hunt
as Army Truck Driver (uncredited)
No Poster
Art Never Sleeps
as Self
