Francis Ford Coppola
Directing
Born 1939-04-07
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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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.
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Daily Show
Saturday Night Live
First Wave
The Mike Douglas Show
The Godfather
The Odyssey
Great Performances
The Godfather Part II
Sacrée soirée
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Arena
Apocalypse Now
Film '72
Pinocchio: Unstrung
C à vous
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Spécial cinéma
The Oscars
The Godfather Part III
Dinah!
Late Night with David Letterman
Sleepy Hollow
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
Faerie Tale Theatre
Lost in Translation
Jay Leno's Garage
The Outsiders
The Kennedy Center Honors
Beau geste
Jeepers Creepers
Oldboy
The Virgin Suicides
The Rainmaker
The Good Shepherd
Marie Antoinette
Jeepers Creepers 2
Megalopolis
Marcians
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
The Great Gatsby
In the Name of the Father
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
LIGHT & MAGIC
The Conversation
The Secret Garden
Jack
Leçon de Cinéma
Rumble Fish
The Bling Ring
American Graffiti
Patton
Please Turn the Page
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
On the Road
The Way We Were
THX 1138
Kagemusha
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