Francis Ford Coppola
Born: 1939-04-07 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2026
- Pinocchio: Unstrung ... (Thanks)
2025
- SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night as Self
- Films to Die For as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Megadoc as Self
- Brother Verses Brother ... (Executive Producer)
2024
- Megalopolis ... (Writer)
- The Preakness ... (Thanks)
- Shadow Brother Sunday ... (Executive Producer)
- The Last Showgirl ... (Thanks)
- Lumière! The Adventure Continues as Self
2023
- Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma as Self - Guest
- Beau geste as Self
- Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain as Self
- The Family as Self
2022
- LIGHT & MAGIC as Self (archive footage)
- Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called as Self (archive footage)
2021
- Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony as Self (archive footage)
- Variety Studio: Directors on Directors as Self
- Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- Freda ... (Executive Producer)
- Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola as Self
2020
- Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self
- Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen as Self
2019
- Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound as Self (archive footage)
- What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael as Self
- Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back as Self
2018
- Friedkin Uncut as Self
- American Dream: Detroit as Self - Interviewee
- Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema as Self
- Godfather I as Self
2017
- Five Came Back as Self
- Marcians as Self
- Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story as Self
- Spielberg as Self
- Five Came Back as Self
2016
- Paris Can Wait ... (Thanks)
- The Family Whistle as Self
- Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos as Self
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- Jay Leno's Garage as Self
- Listen to Me Marlon as Self (archive footage)
- Artistry/Technology as Self
- Reflections in Blood: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker’s Dracula as Self
- Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son as Self
2014
- Henri Langlois vu par... as Self
- Palo Alto as The Judge (voice) (uncredited)
- Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- The Director's Chair as Self
- Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance as Self (archive footage)
- Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto as Self
2013
- Trespassing Bergman as Self
- Oldboy ... (Thanks)
- The Bling Ring ... (Executive Producer)
- Seduced and Abandoned as Self
- Milius as Self
- Twixt: A Documentary as Self
- Locations: Looking for Rusty James ... (Technical Advisor)
2012
- The Godfather Legacy as Self
- On the Road ... (Executive Producer)
2011
- Twixt ... (Director)
2010
- Somewhere ... (Executive Producer)
- The People vs. George Lucas as Self (archive footage)
- Sodankylä Forever as Self
- Sodankylä Forever as Self
- A Conversation with Martin Sheen as Self
2009
- C à vous as Self - Guest
- Tetro ... (Director)
- I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
2008
- The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't as Self
- The Last Days of Marlon Brando as Self (archive Footage)
- Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather' as Self
- The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped as Self
- Clemenza as Self
- Cannoli as Self
2007
- Youth Without Youth ... (Director)
- In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' as Self
- The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' as Self (archive footage)
- The Making of Marie Antoinette as Self
- Fog City Mavericks as Self
- Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula' as Self
- Lights, Action, Music as Self
- The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka as Self
- Brando as Self (archive footage)
- Coda: Thirty Years Later as Self
2006
- Marie Antoinette ... (Executive Producer)
- The Good Shepherd ... (Executive Producer)
- The Godfather and the Mob as Self (archive footage)
2005
- Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found as Self
- George Lucas: Creating an Empire as Self
- Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders' as Self
- Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa as Self
- Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa as Self
2004
- The 4400 ... (Executive Producer)
- Kinsey ... (Executive Producer)
- She Hate Me ... (Thanks)
- Leçon de Cinéma as Self
- The Dream Studio as self
- Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138' as Self
- A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope as Self
- Tying the Knot as Self
- Forever Is a Long, Long Time ... (Executive Producer)
2003
- Lost in Translation ... (Thanks)
- Jeepers Creepers 2 ... (Executive Producer)
- Assassination Tango ... (Executive Producer)
- A Decade Under the Influence as Self
- Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig as Self
- Platinum ... (Executive Producer)
- The Educational Archives: Sex & Drugs ... (Executive Producer)
2002
- No Such Thing ... (Executive Producer)
- Pumpkin ... (Executive Producer)
2001
- Jeepers Creepers ... (Executive Producer)
- CQ ... (Executive Producer)
- The Legend of Suriyothai ... (Executive Producer)
- Another Day ... (Executive Producer)
- R2-D2: Beneath the Dome as Self
- Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal as Self
2000
- The Virgin Suicides ... (Producer)
- One Morning All Over the World ... (Director)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ... (Executive Producer)
- The Making of The Virgin Suicides as Self
1999
- Sleepy Hollow ... (Executive Producer)
- Goosed ... (Executive Producer)
- The Florentine ... (Producer)
- The Third Miracle ... (Executive Producer)
- Kurosawa: The Last Emperor as Self
- Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños as Self
1998
- First Wave ... (Producer)
- Outrage ... (Executive Producer)
- Moby Dick ... (Executive Producer)
- Lani Loa: The Passage ... (Executive Producer)
- The Making of 'American Graffiti' as Self
1997
- The Rainmaker ... (Director)
- The Odyssey ... (Executive Producer)
- Buddy ... (Executive Producer)
- Survival on the Mountain ... (Executive Producer)
- A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola as Self
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- Jack ... (Director)
- Dark Angel ... (Executive Producer)
- Vem Var Dracula as Self
1995
- Haunted ... (Executive Producer)
- My Family ... (Executive Producer)
- Kidnapped ... (Executive Producer)
- The Conversation ... (Producer)
- White Dwarf ... (Executive Producer)
- Tecumseh: The Last Warrior ... (Executive Producer)
1994
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ... (Producer)
- Don Juan DeMarco ... (Producer)
- Marlon Brando: The Wild One as Self
- The World of Jim Henson as Self
- Traveling Light ... (Producer)
- Ironbound ... (Producer)
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein as Self
1993
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- The Secret Garden ... (Executive Producer)
- In the Name of the Father ... (Thanks)
- The Junky's Christmas ... (Producer)
1992
- Bram Stoker's Dracula ... (Director)
- Wind ... (Executive Producer)
- Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies. as Self
- Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro as Self
- The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 ... (Director)
1991
1990
- The Godfather Part III ... (Director)
- Hollywood Mavericks as Self
- The Outsiders ... (Producer)
- Martin Scorsese Directs as Self
- Central Park as Self
- The Godfather Family: A Look Inside as Self
1989
- New York Stories ... (Writer)
1988
- Tucker: The Man and His Dream ... (Director)
- Powaqqatsi ... (Presenter)
1987
- Sacrée Soirée as Self
- Barfly ... (Presenter)
- Lionheart ... (Executive Producer)
- Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle ... (Director)
- Gardens of Stone ... (Director)
- Tough Guys Don't Dance ... (Executive Producer)
1986
- Peggy Sue Got Married ... (Director)
- The Making of Captain EO as Self
- Captain EO ... (Director)
1985
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters ... (Executive Producer)
- Inside Mishima as Self
1984
- The Cotton Club ... (Director)
1983
- The Outsiders ... (Director)
- Koyaanisqatsi ... (Executive Producer)
- Rumble Fish ... (Director)
- The Black Stallion Returns ... (Executive Producer)
1982
- Faerie Tale Theatre ... (Director)
- Hammett ... (Second Unit Director)
- Parsifal ... (Executive Producer)
- One from the Heart ... (Director)
- The Escape Artist ... (Executive Producer)
- Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982 as Self
- The Making of 'One from the Heart' as Self
1981
- The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959 ... (Screenplay)
- Inside the Coppola Personality as Self
- An All Round Maid ... (Producer)
- Rendez-Vous Video Magazine as Self (segment "Coppola")
1980
- Kagemusha ... (Executive Producer)
- Jerry Brown: The Shape of Things to Come ... (Director)
1979
- Apocalypse Now as Director of TV Crew (uncredited)
- The Black Stallion ... (Executive Producer)
1978
- The Kennedy Center Honors as Self - Honoree
1977
- Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television ... (Producer)
- Please Turn the Page as Self
1976
- The Godfather Comes to Sixth St. as Self
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- The Lion Roars Again as Self
1974
- The Godfather Part II ... (Producer)
- The Conversation ... (Director)
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- Dinah! as Self
- The Great Gatsby ... (Screenplay)
1973
- American Graffiti ... (Producer)
- The Way We Were ... (Additional Writing)
- Paper Moon ... (Executive Producer)
1972
- The Godfather ... (Screenplay)
- The People ... (Executive Producer)
1971
- Great Performances as Self
- THX 1138 ... (Executive Producer)
- Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138' as Self
- The Godfather: Behind the Scenes as Self
1970
- Patton ... (Screenstory)
1969
- The Rain People ... (Director)
1968
- The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow' as Self
- Filmmaker as Self
- The Wild Racers ... (Second Unit Director)
- Finian's Rainbow ... (Director)
- The New Cinema as Self
1966
- Is Paris Burning? ... (Screenplay)
- This Property Is Condemned ... (Screenplay)
- You're a Big Boy Now ... (Director)
1963
- Dementia 13 ... (Director)
- The Terror ... (Associate Producer)
- The Haunted Palace ... (Additional Dialogue)
- The Young Racers as (uncredited)
1962
- War Hunt as Army Truck Driver (uncredited)
- The Premature Burial ... (Assistant Director)
- Tonight for Sure ... (Director)
- The Bellboy and the Playgirls ... (Director)
- The Peeper ... (Director)
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1959
- Battle Beyond the Sun ... (Associate Producer)
1956
- No Cigar ... (Director)
1953
- The Oscars as Self