Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

07.04.1939 (84 years) (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Francis Ford Coppola (; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer. He was a central figure in the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. After directing The Rain People (1969), he co-wrote the 1970 film Patton, earning the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay along with co-writer Edmund H. North. His directorial prominence was cemented with the release in 1972 of The Godfather, a film which revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre, earning praise from both critics and the public before winning three Academy Awards—including his second Oscar (Best Adapted Screenplay, with Mario Puzo), Best Picture, and his first nomination for Best Director. He followed with The Godfather Part II in 1974, which became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Highly regarded by critics, it brought him three more Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture, and made him the second director, after Billy Wilder, to be honored three times for the same film. The Conversation, which he directed, produced and wrote, was released that same year, winning the Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. He next directed 1979's Apocalypse Now. While notorious for its lengthy and strenuous production, the film is widely acclaimed for its vivid depiction of the Vietnam War. It won the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, making Coppola one of only eight filmmakers to win two Palme d'Or awards. While a number of Coppola's ventures in the 1980s and 1990s were critically lauded, he has never quite achieved the same commercial success with films as in the 1970s. His most well-known films released since the start of the 1980s are the dramas The Outsiders and Rumble Fish (both 1983), the crime-drama The Cotton Club (1984), the crime-drama The Godfather Part III (1990), and the horror film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).

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The Bling Ring (2013)

IMDB: 5.6 (80087 votes)
On the Road (2012)

IMDB: 6.1 (38853 votes)
Twixt (2011)

IMDB: 4.8 (10090 votes)
Youth Without Youth (2007)

IMDB: 6.1 (13785 votes)
Marie Antoinette (2006)

IMDB: 6.4 (96615 votes)
Kinsey (2004)

IMDB: 7.0 (46603 votes)
Lost in translation (2003)

IMDB: 7.7 (461674 votes)
Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)

IMDB: 5.6 (56528 votes)
Lost in translation (2003)

IMDB: 7.7 (461674 votes)
Jeepers Creepers (2001)

IMDB: 6.2 (107174 votes)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)

IMDB: 7.3 (316087 votes)
The Virgin Suicides (1999)

IMDB: 7.2 (138293 votes)
The Rainmaker (1997)

IMDB: 7.2 (77838 votes)
Jack (1996)

IMDB: 5.8 (61454 votes)
My Family (1995)

IMDB: 7.3 (4245 votes)
Don Juan DeMarco (1994)

IMDB: 6.7 (46632 votes)
Frankenstein (1994)

IMDB: 6.4 (49367 votes)
Wind (1992)

IMDB: 6.4 (2923 votes)
Dracula (1992)

IMDB: 7.4 (183724 votes)
The Godfather: Part III (1990)

IMDB: 7.6 (338876 votes)
New York Stories (1989)

IMDB: 6.4 (16264 votes)
Gardens of Stone (1987)

IMDB: 6.4 (4879 votes)
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

IMDB: 6.4 (38683 votes)
The Cotton Club (1984)

IMDB: 6.5 (15575 votes)
The Outsiders (1983)

IMDB: 7.1 (71781 votes)
Rumble Fish (1983)

IMDB: 7.2 (30199 votes)
One from the Heart (1981)

IMDB: 6.5 (4963 votes)
Apocalypse Now (1979)

IMDB: 8.4 (573613 votes)
The Conversation (1974)

IMDB: 7.8 (91115 votes)
The Great Gatsby (1974)

IMDB: 6.4 (22670 votes)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)

IMDB: 9.0 (1047181 votes)
American Graffiti (1973)

IMDB: 7.4 (77619 votes)
Kino Kults | The Godfather (1972)

IMDB: 9.2 (1865515 votes)
The Godfather (1972)

IMDB: 9.2 (1495806 votes)