Directing · Detroit, Michigan, USA · Born April 7, 1939
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.
MovieVittorio De Sica: Staging Life
2026
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MovieMaverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
2026
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MovieFilms to Die For
2025
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MovieEleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us
2025
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MovieThe Making of Hearts of Darkness
2025
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MovieMegadoc
2025
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MovieJaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025
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MovieLumière, Le Cinéma!
2024
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MovieMartin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
2024
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MovieYellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club
2023
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TVFaut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
2023
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MovieThe Family
2023
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TVBeau geste
2023
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TVLIGHT & MAGIC
2022
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TVDans les secrets des films Star Wars
2022
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MovieWinona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
2022
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Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola
2021
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MovieMorceaux de Cannes
2021
MovieIndiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
2021
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MovieHannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
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TVDirectors on Directors
2021
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Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
2020
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MovieWim Wenders, Desperado
2020
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MovieMaurice Hines: Bring Them Back
2019
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MovieMaking Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019
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MovieWhat She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019
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MovieFriedkin Uncut
2018
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MovieAmerican Dream: Detroit
2018
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MovieGodfather I
2018
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MovieFrancis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema
2018
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TVMarcians
2017
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MovieSpielberg
2017
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MovieFive Came Back
2017
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TVFive Came Back
2017
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MovieHarold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
2017
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MovieJaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos
2016
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MovieThe Family Whistle
2016
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MoviePractical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son
2015
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MovieReflections in Blood: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker’s Dracula
2015
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TVJay Leno's Garage
2015
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TVThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
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MovieArtistry/Technology
2015
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MovieListen to Me Marlon
2015
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MovieMarlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
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MovieAlfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014
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MovieHenri Langlois vu par...
2014
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MovieBehind the Scenes of Palo Alto
2014
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TVThe Director's Chair
2014
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MoviePalo Alto
2014
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MovieTrespassing Bergman
2013
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MovieTwixt: A Documentary
2013
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MovieSeduced and Abandoned
2013
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MovieMilius
2013
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MovieThe Godfather Legacy
2012
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MovieA Conversation with Martin Sheen
2010
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TVSodankylä Forever
2010
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MovieThe People vs. George Lucas
2010
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TVC à vous
2009
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MovieI Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
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Cannoli
2008
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MovieEmulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
2008
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MovieThe Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
2008
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MovieThe Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008
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MovieThe Last Days of Marlon Brando
2008
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Coda: Thirty Years Later
2007
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MovieFog City Mavericks
2007
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MovieThe Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007
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MovieThe Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
2007
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MovieIn Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007
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MovieMethod and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'
2007
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MovieLights, Action, Music
2007
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MovieFrancis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
2007
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MovieThe Making of Marie Antoinette
2007
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MovieBrando
2007
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MovieThe Godfather and the Mob
2006
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MovieStaying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
2005
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MovieOn Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
2005
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MovieSaturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
2005
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MovieLucas, Coppola & Kurosawa
2005
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MovieGeorge Lucas: Creating an Empire
2005
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Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa
2005
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MovieTying the Knot
2004
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MovieA Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
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Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
2004
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TVLeçon de Cinéma
2004
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MovieThe Dream Studio
2004
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MovieWhether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
2003
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MovieA Decade Under the Influence
2003
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MovieEasy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
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On the Set of CQ
2002
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MovieR2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
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MovieBreaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001
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MovieThe Making of The Virgin Suicides
2000
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Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños
1999
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MovieKurosawa: The Last Emperor
1999
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MovieThe Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998
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MovieA Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola
1997
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MovieVem Var Dracula
1996
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TVThe Daily Show
1996
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MovieThe World of Jim Henson
1994
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MovieIt's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994
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TVInside the Actors Studio
1994
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MovieMarlon Brando: The Wild One
1994
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TVLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
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MovieBlood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
1992
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Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro
1992
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MovieHearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
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Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
1991
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MovieHollywood Mavericks
1990
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MovieThe Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990
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MovieMartin Scorsese Directs
1990
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MovieCentral Park
1990
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TVSacrée soirée
1987
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MovieDeath of a Porn Queen
1987
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MovieThe Making of Captain EO
1986
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MovieInside Mishima
1985
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MovieReverse Angle: New York, March 1982
1982
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MovieThe Making of 'One from the Heart'
1982
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TVLate Night with David Letterman
1982
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MovieInside the Coppola Personality
1981
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MovieRendez-Vous Video Magazine
1981
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MovieApocalypse Now
1979
as Director of TV Crew (uncredited)
TVThe Kennedy Center Honors
1978
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Please Turn the Page
1977
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The Godfather Comes to Sixth St.
1976
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TVSaturday Night Live
1975
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TVArena
1975
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TVLes Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
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The Lion Roars Again
1975
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TVDinah!
1974
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TVSpécial cinéma
1974
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Film '72
1971
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MovieBald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
1971
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TVGreat Performances
1971
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MovieThe Godfather: Behind the Scenes
1971
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MovieFilmmaker
1968
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MovieThe World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'
1968
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MovieThe New Cinema
1968
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MovieThe Young Racers
1963
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MovieWar Hunt
1962
as Army Truck Driver (uncredited)
TVThe Mike Douglas Show
1961
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TVThe Oscars
1953
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Art Never Sleeps
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