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Francis Ford Coppola
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.
As director
Megalopolis
The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
Henri Langlois vu par...
Twixt
Tetro
Youth Without Youth
One Morning All Over the World
The Rainmaker
Jack
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
The Godfather Part III
New York Stories
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Gardens of Stone
Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle
Peggy Sue Got Married
Captain EO
The Cotton Club
The Outsiders
Rumble Fish
One from the Heart
Jerry Brown: The Shape of Things to Come
Apocalypse Now
The Conversation
The Godfather Part II
The Godfather
The Rain People
Finian's Rainbow
As actor
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
Megadoc
Films to Die For
Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us
The Making of Hearts of Darkness
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Lumière, Le Cinéma!
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
The Family
Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola
Morceaux de Cannes
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
American Dream: Detroit
Friedkin Uncut
Godfather I
Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
Five Came Back
Spielberg
Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos
The Family Whistle
Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son