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 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.
Known for
Credits
Apocalypse Now (1979)
as Director of TV Crew (uncredited)
Hollywood Mavericks (1990)
as Self
Tribeca 25 (2026)
as Self
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025)
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Making Marie Antoinette (2026)
as Self
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life (2026)
as Self
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club (2023)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome (2001)
as Self
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master (2024)
as Self (archive) - director
Central Park (1990)
as Self
Seduced and Abandoned (2013)
as Self
Palo Alto (2014)
as The Judge (voice) (uncredited)
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean (2026)
as Self
Filmmaker (1968)
as Self
The World of Jim Henson (1994)
as Self
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker' (2007)
as Self
Morceaux de Cannes (2021)
Actor
Spielberg (2017)
as Self
The Young Racers (1963)
as (uncredited)
The Making of Hearts of Darkness (2025)
as Self
Martin Scorsese Directs (1990)
as Self
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
as Self
Fog City Mavericks (2007)
as Self
Lumière, Le Cinéma! (2024)
as Self
War Hunt (1962)
as Army Truck Driver (uncredited)
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish' (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
Artistry/Technology (2015)
as Self
Death of a Porn Queen (1987)
as Self (archive footage)
Megadoc (2025)
as Self
Twixt: A Documentary (2013)
as Self
The New Cinema (1968)
as Self
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age (2021)
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Trespassing Bergman (2013)
as Self
A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
as Self
Henri Langlois vu par... (2014)
as Self
Listen to Me Marlon (2015)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marlon Brando: The Wild One (1994)
as Self
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather' (2008)
as Self
The People vs. George Lucas (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009)
as Self
Coda: Thirty Years Later (2007)
as Self
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003)
as Self
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto (2014)
as Self
Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa (2005)
as Self
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside (1990)
as Self
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire (2014)
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Rendez-Vous Video Magazine (1981)
as Self (segment "Coppola")
Friedkin Uncut (2018)
as Self
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't (2008)
as Self
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka (2007)
as Self
The Making of The Virgin Suicides (2000)
as Self
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped (2008)
as Self
Milius (2013)
as Self
The Making of 'American Graffiti' (1998)
as Self
Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig (2003)
as Self
Brando (2007)
as Self (archive footage)
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found (2005)
as Self
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies (1992)
as Self
Five Came Back (2017)
as Self
George Lucas: Creating an Empire (2002)
as Self
The Making of Captain EO (1986)
as Self
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' (2007)
as Self (archive footage)
The Godfather and the Mob (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back (2019)
as Self
The Making of Marie Antoinette (2007)
as Self
The Family (2023)
as Self
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope (2004)
as Self
Godfather I (2018)
as Self
Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us (2025)
as Self
On the Set of CQ (2002)
as Self
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138' (2004)
as Self
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019)
as Self
Wim Wenders, Desperado (2020)
as Self
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story (2017)
as Self
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein (1994)
as Self
The Godfather Legacy (2012)
as Self
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (1999)
as Self
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders' (2005)
as Self
Lights, Action, Music (2007)
as Self
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' (2007)
as Self
The Last Days of Marlon Brando (2008)
as Self (archive Footage)
Art Never Sleeps (—)
as Self
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982 (1982)
as Self
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal (2001)
as Self
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138' (1971)
as Self
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper (1991)
as Self
Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema (2018)
as Self
The Family Whistle (2016)
as Self
Films to Die For (2025)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Lion Roars Again (1975)
as Self
Close-Up on The Conversation (—)
Actor
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes (1971)
as Self
Inside the Coppola Personality (1981)
as Self
A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola (1997)
as Self
Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola (2021)
as Self
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro (1992)
as Self
Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula' (2007)
as Self
The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow' (1968)
as Self
American Dream: Detroit (2018)
as Self - Interviewee
Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños (1999)
as Self
Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos (2016)
as Self
Tying the Knot (2004)
as Self
The Godfather Comes to Sixth St. (1976)
as Self
Inside Mishima (1985)
as Self
The Dream Studio (2004)
as self
A Conversation with Martin Sheen (2010)
as Self
The Making of 'One from the Heart' (1982)
as Self
Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa (2005)
as Self
Cannoli (2008)
as Self