Francis Ford Coppola
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.
40 directing credits · 142 acting credits
Directing · 40
The Godfather
1972
The Godfather Part II
1974
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
Apocalypse Now
1979
The Godfather Part III
1990
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
1977
The Outsiders
1983
Megalopolis
2024
The Rainmaker
1997
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
2016
The Conversation
1974
Jack
1996
Peggy Sue Got Married
1986
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988
The Cotton Club
1984
Rumble Fish
1983
Youth Without Youth
2007
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992
One from the Heart
1982
New York Stories
1989
Tetro
2009
Twixt
2011
Gardens of Stone
1987
Captain EO
1986
Finian's Rainbow
1968
The Rain People
1969
Dementia 13
1963
Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle
1987
Battle Beyond the Sun
1959
One Morning All Over the World
2000
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
You're a Big Boy Now
1966
The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
2020
No Cigar
1956
The Bellboy and the Playgirls
1962
Tonight for Sure
1962
The Peeper
1962
Glimpses of the Moon
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Jerry Brown: The Shape of Things to Come
1980
Acting · 142
The Daily Show
1996
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Great Performances
1971
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Sacrée soirée
1987
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
The Oscars
1953
Spécial cinéma
1974
Dinah!
1974
Apocalypse Now
1979
C à vous
2009
Film '72
1971
Jay Leno's Garage
2015
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
2023
Marcians
2017
Beau geste
2023
Directors on Directors
2021
LIGHT & MAGIC
2022
Please Turn the Page
1977
Leçon de Cinéma
2004
Spielberg
2017
The Director's Chair
2014
Five Came Back
2017
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019
Sodankylä Forever
2010
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025
Palo Alto
2014
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
2021
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990
Trespassing Bergman
2013
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
2020
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Megadoc
2025
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
Brando
2007
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008
Friedkin Uncut
2018
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
2005
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
2022
Milius
2013
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
2004
War Hunt
1962
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
2017
The People vs. George Lucas
2010
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
1992
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
2024
Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club
2023
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
2005
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
Sodankylä Forever
2010
Dans les secrets des films Star Wars
2022
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
2005
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
Fog City Mavericks
2007
Five Came Back
2017
The Making of The Virgin Suicides
2000
The Family
2023
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998
Lumière, Le Cinéma!
2024
The World of Jim Henson
1994
Vem Var Dracula
1996
Hollywood Mavericks
1990
The Making of Captain EO
1986
Seduced and Abandoned
2013
The Making of Marie Antoinette
2007
Coda: Thirty Years Later
2007
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
2007
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
2019
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
2005
The Godfather Legacy
2012
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
1991
Listen to Me Marlon
2015
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
1999
Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
2003
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
1971
The Godfather and the Mob
2006
Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto
2014
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
The Lion Roars Again
1975
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
1994
Lights, Action, Music
2007
Filmmaker
1968
The New Cinema
1968
The Young Racers
1963
Central Park
1990
Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us
2025
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
1971
The Family Whistle
2016
Death of a Porn Queen
1987
Rendez-Vous Video Magazine
1981
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
2008
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
2007
The Making of 'One from the Heart'
1982
Twixt: A Documentary
2013
The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'
1968
Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro
1992
The Last Days of Marlon Brando
2008
Reflections in Blood: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker’s Dracula
2015
A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola
1997
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014
Inside the Coppola Personality
1981
The Dream Studio
2004
Artistry/Technology
2015
American Dream: Detroit
2018
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
2008
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
1982
Vittorio De Sica – La Vie in Scene
2026
Inside Mishima
1985
Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola
2021
Films to Die For
2025
Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos
2016
Godfather I
2018
Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños
1999
Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa
2005
Art Never Sleeps
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The Godfather Comes to Sixth St.
1976
Tying the Knot
2004
Cannoli
2008
Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema
2018
A Conversation with Martin Sheen
2010
Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'
2007
On the Set of CQ
2002
The Making of Hearts of Darkness
2025
Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa
2005
Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son
2015