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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Francis Ford Coppola, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Francis Ford Coppola
07-04-1939
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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星光大盜
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English )
Director:
Harris Savides
Music Director:
Kirsten Dunst
,
Paris Hilton
Release date:
21-06-2013
Milius
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English )
Director:
Zak Knutson
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Joey Figueroa
Music Director:
Kevin Mann
Release date:
09-03-2013
Στο Δρόμο
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English )
Director:
Charles Gillibert
Music Director:
Carlos Conti
Release date:
21-12-2012
Twixt
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English )
Director:
Francis Ford Coppola
Music Director:
Osvaldo Golijov
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Dan Deacon
Release date:
10-08-2012
The People vs. George Lucas
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English )
Director:
Alexandre Philip
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Alexandre O. Philippe
Release date:
14-03-2010
テトロ 過去を殺した男
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English )
Director:
Francis Ford Coppola
Music Director:
Osvaldo Golijov
Release date:
11-06-2009
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
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English )
Director:
Richard Shepard
Music Director:
Adam Gorgoni
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Michael Saltzman
Release Year:
2009
Marie Antoinette
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English )
Director:
Francis Ford Coppola
Music Director:
Release date:
20-10-2006
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