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.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Films to Die For
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Release Date:23/10/2025
Megadoc
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Release Date:19/09/2025
Lumière! The Adventure Continues
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Release Date:22/11/2024
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
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Release Date:08/12/2023
The Family
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Release Date:17/05/2023
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
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Release Date:09/04/2022
Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola
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Release Date:07/08/2021
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
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Release Date:07/05/2021
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
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Release Date:26/03/2021
Wim Wenders, Desperado
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Release Date:16/07/2020
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
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Release Date:10/11/2019
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
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Release Date:25/10/2019
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
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Release Date:22/03/2019
Friedkin Uncut
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Release Date:05/11/2018
American Dream: Detroit
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Release Date:01/05/2018
Godfather I
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Release Date:29/01/2018
Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema
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Release Date:10/01/2018
Spielberg
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Release Date:05/10/2017
Five Came Back
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Release Date:31/03/2017
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
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Release Date:01/02/2017
Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos
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Release Date:08/09/2016
The Family Whistle
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Release Date:19/05/2016
Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son
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Release Date:08/10/2015
Reflections in Blood: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker’s Dracula
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Release Date:08/10/2015
Artistry/Technology
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Release Date:04/08/2015
Listen to Me Marlon
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Release Date:29/07/2015
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
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Release Date:20/09/2014
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
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Release Date:10/09/2014
Henri Langlois vu par...
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Release Date:27/07/2014
Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto
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Release Date:28/05/2014
Palo Alto
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Release Date:09/05/2014
Trespassing Bergman
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Release Date:28/08/2013
Twixt: A Documentary
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Release Date:23/07/2013
Seduced and Abandoned
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Release Date:20/05/2013
Milius
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Release Date:09/03/2013
The Godfather Legacy
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Release Date:12/07/2012
Sodankylä Forever
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Release Date:05/08/2010
A Conversation with Martin Sheen
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Release Date:20/06/2010
The People vs. George Lucas
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Release Date:14/03/2010
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
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Release Date:16/01/2009
Cannoli
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Release Date:23/09/2008
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
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Release Date:23/09/2008
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
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Release Date:23/09/2008
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
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Release Date:03/06/2008
The Last Days of Marlon Brando
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Release Date:01/03/2008
Coda: Thirty Years Later
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Release Date:09/12/2007
Fog City Mavericks
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Release Date:24/10/2007
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
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Release Date:08/10/2007
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
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Release Date:02/10/2007
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
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Release Date:02/10/2007
Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'
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Release Date:02/10/2007
Lights, Action, Music
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Release Date:06/08/2007
The Making of Marie Antoinette
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Release Date:02/07/2007
Brando
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Release Date:01/05/2007
The Godfather and the Mob
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Release Date:25/04/2006
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
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Release Date:20/09/2005
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
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Release Date:15/04/2005
Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa
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Release Date:29/03/2005
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
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Release Date:27/01/2005
Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa
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Release Date:01/01/2005
Tying the Knot
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Release Date:01/10/2004
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
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Release Date:14/09/2004
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
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Release Date:14/08/2004
The Dream Studio
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Release Date:01/01/2004
Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
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Release Date:07/09/2003
A Decade Under the Influence
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Release Date:25/04/2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
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Release Date:09/03/2003
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
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Release Date:25/11/2001
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
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Release Date:21/08/2001
The Making of The Virgin Suicides
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Release Date:19/12/2000
Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños
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Release Date:22/02/1999
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
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Release Date:01/01/1999
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
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Release Date:15/09/1998
A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola
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Release Date:21/11/1997
Vem Var Dracula
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Release Date:02/10/1996
The World of Jim Henson
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Release Date:23/11/1994
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
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Release Date:25/10/1994
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
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Release Date:11/08/1994
Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro
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Release Date:01/01/1992
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
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Release Date:01/01/1992
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
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Release Date:27/11/1991
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
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Release Date:17/05/1991
Hollywood Mavericks
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Release Date:07/09/1990
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
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Release Date:12/07/1990
Martin Scorsese Directs
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Release Date:16/06/1990
Central Park
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Release Date:01/04/1990
Death Of A Porn Queen
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Release Date:08/06/1987
The Making of Captain EO
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Release Date:12/09/1986
Inside Mishima
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Release Date:23/10/1985
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
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Release Date:15/09/1982
The Making of 'One from the Heart'
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Release Date:14/08/1982
Inside the Coppola Personality
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Release Date:01/01/1981
Rendez-Vous Video Magazine
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Release Date:01/01/1981
Apocalypse Now
Character:Director of TV Crew (uncredited)
Release Date:19/05/1979
The Godfather Comes to Sixth St.
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Release Date:23/10/1976
The Lion Roars Again
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Release Date:01/01/1975
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
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Release Date:01/03/1971
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
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Release Date:01/01/1971
Filmmaker
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Release Date:01/12/1968
The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'
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Release Date:01/01/1968
The New Cinema
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Release Date:01/01/1968
The Young Racers
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Release Date:01/01/1963
War Hunt
Character:Army Truck Driver (uncredited)
Release Date:01/05/1962
Television Appearances
Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma
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Beau geste
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LIGHT & MAGIC
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Directors on Directors
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Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
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Marcians
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Five Came Back
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Jay Leno's Garage
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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The Director's Chair
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Sodankylä Forever
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C à vous
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Leçon de Cinéma
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The Daily Show
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Inside the Actors Studio
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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Sacrée Soirée
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The Kennedy Center Honors
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Please Turn the Page
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Saturday Night Live
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
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Dinah!
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Spécial cinéma
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Great Performances
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The Mike Douglas Show
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The Oscars
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