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