Francis Ford Coppola
Birthday: 1939-04-07
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Biography: 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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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
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A Conversation with Martin Sheen
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A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola
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Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son
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Coda: Thirty Years Later
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Fog City Mavericks
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The Family
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The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'
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The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
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The Making of Captain EO
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Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa
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Clemenza
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Cannoli
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Seduced and Abandoned
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Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
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The Godfather Comes to Sixth St.
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The Dream Studio
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Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
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Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
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Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
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The Godfather Legacy
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Vem Var Dracula
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The People vs. George Lucas
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War Hunt
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Filmmaker
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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
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What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
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The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
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Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
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Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
Short documentary on the making of Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula" (1992)....
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The Young Racers
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Megadoc
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The Making of 'American Graffiti'
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The New Cinema
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Inside the Coppola Personality
Monte Hellman's short portrait of Francis Ford Coppola discussing business and craft at home and on ...
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The Godfather and the Mob
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Apocalypse Now
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A Decade Under the Influence
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Trespassing Bergman
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American Dream: Detroit
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The Family Whistle
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Central Park
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Friedkin Uncut
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Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto
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Hollywood Mavericks
A documentary focusing on seventeen maverick directors who were not afraid to break the rules of fil...
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Art Never Sleeps
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Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
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Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
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The Making of The Virgin Suicides
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Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
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Marlon Brando: The Wild One
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Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema
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The Making of 'One from the Heart'
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The World of Jim Henson
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Twixt: A Documentary
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Palo Alto
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Lights, Action, Music
A wonderful journey through the meaning and relevance of film music composition. Featuring great, a...
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The Making of Marie Antoinette
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Wim Wenders, Desperado
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Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
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R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
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The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
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The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
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Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'
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In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Director Francis Ford Coppola and production staff reveal the secrets behind the 1992 masterpiece....
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The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
Members of the crew recall the post-production process on the three 'Godfather' movies....
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The Last Days of Marlon Brando
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Sodankylä Forever
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The Lion Roars Again
A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in ...
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Tying the Knot
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Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
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Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
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The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
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Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola
A meeting with Francis Ford Coppola in Rome, on the occasion of the Italian release of Dracula, whic...
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Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
Join director Francis Coppola and his remarkable cast as they reminisce about their experiences shoo...
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Inside Mishima
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Lumière! The Adventure Continues
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
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