Profile of Francis Ford Coppola
View photos

Francis Ford Coppola

Born
1939-04-07
Birthplace
Detroit,
Michigan
USA
Born
1939-04-07
Birthplace
Detroit, Michigan
USA
Biography

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 k......

Profile of Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Born
1939-04-07
Birthplace
Detroit, Michigan
USA
Born
1939-04-07
Birthplace
Detroit, Michigan
USA
Biography

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.

263 titles with 340 credits

Showing all roles in all media, sorted by popularity (descending)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert poster

2015

i
The Daily Show poster

1996

i
Saturday Night Live poster

1975

i
The Mike Douglas Show poster

1961

i
The Godfather poster

1972

i
Great Performances poster

1971

i
Late Night with David Letterman poster

1982

i
The Godfather Part II poster

1974

i
Late Night with Conan O'Brien poster

1993

i
Sacrée soirée poster

1987

i
First Wave poster

1998

i
Apocalypse Now poster

1979

i
The Oscars poster

1953

i
Spécial cinéma poster

1974

i
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche poster

1975

i
The Godfather Part III poster

1990

i
Faerie Tale Theatre poster

1982

i
Dinah! poster

1974

i
Sleepy Hollow poster

1999

i
Lost in Translation poster

2003

i
Bram Stoker's Dracula poster

1992

i
Oldboy poster

2013

i
C à vous poster

2009

i
Jeepers Creepers poster

2001

i
The Outsiders poster

1983

i
The Odyssey poster

1997

i
Jay Leno's Garage poster

2015

i
The Kennedy Center Honors poster

1978

i
Film '72 poster

1971

i
LIGHT & MAGIC poster

2022

i
Beau geste poster

2023

i
Pinocchio: Unstrung poster

2026

i
The Virgin Suicides poster

2000

i
Marie Antoinette poster

2006

i
Jeepers Creepers 2 poster

2003

i
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma poster

2023

i
In the Name of the Father poster

1993

i
American Graffiti poster

1973

i
The Rainmaker poster

1997

i
Megalopolis poster

2024

i
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television poster

1977

i
Marcians poster

2017

i
The Conversation poster

1974

i
Jack poster

1996

i
The Good Shepherd poster

2006

i
Patton poster

1970

i
Kagemusha poster

1980

i
The Outsiders poster

1990

i
Directors on Directors poster

2021

i
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein poster

1994

i
The Secret Garden poster

1993

i
The Bling Ring poster

2013

i
THX 1138 poster

1971

i
Palo Alto poster

2014

i
On the Road poster

2012

i
Paper Moon poster

1973

i
Somewhere poster

2010

i
Don Juan DeMarco poster

1994

i
Koyaanisqatsi poster

1983

i
Rumble Fish poster

1983

i
Peggy Sue Got Married poster

1986

i
Kinsey poster

2004

i
The Great Gatsby poster

1974

i
The Way We Were poster

1973

i
The Cotton Club poster

1984

i
Tucker: The Man and His Dream poster

1988

i
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse poster

1991

i
New York Stories poster

1989

i
Barfly poster

1987

i
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters poster

1985

i
The Black Stallion poster

1979

i
Spielberg poster

2017

i
Twixt poster

2011

i
The Last Showgirl poster

2024

i
Paris Can Wait poster

2016

i
Youth Without Youth poster

2007

i
Is Paris Burning? poster

1966

i
Tetro poster

2009

i
One from the Heart poster

1982

i
Dementia 13 poster

1963

i
The Haunted Palace poster

1963

i
The Terror poster

1963

i
Haunted poster

1995

i
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 poster

1992

i
Listen to Me Marlon poster

2015

i
Gardens of Stone poster

1987

i
She Hate Me poster

2004

i
The People vs. George Lucas poster

2010

i
This Property Is Condemned poster

1966

i
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound poster

2019

i
The Rain People poster

1969

i
Buddy poster

1997

i
Five Came Back poster

2017

i
CQ poster

2001

i
Moby Dick poster

1998

i
Powaqqatsi poster

1988

i
Pumpkin poster

2002

i
My Family poster

1995

i
Hammett poster

1982

i
The Black Stallion Returns poster

1983

i
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale poster

2009

i
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood poster

2003

i
Inside the Actors Studio poster

1994

i
Milius poster

2013

i
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story poster

2025

i
You're a Big Boy Now poster

1966

i
The Third Miracle poster

1999

i
Seduced and Abandoned poster

2013

i
Assassination Tango poster

2003

i
Finian's Rainbow poster

1968

i
Wind poster

1992

i
Friedkin Uncut poster

2018

i
Five Came Back poster

2017

i
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside poster

1990

i
A Decade Under the Influence poster

2003

i
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age poster

2021

i
Captain EO poster

1986

i
Trespassing Bergman poster

2013

i
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony poster

2021

i
War Hunt poster

1962

i
Battle Beyond the Sun poster

1959

i
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story poster

2017

i
Lionheart poster

1987

i
The Godfather Legacy poster

2012

i
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael poster

2019

i
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire poster

2014

i
Lumière, Le Cinéma! poster

2024

i
Tonight for Sure poster

1962

i
The Florentine poster

1999

i
Platinum poster

2003

i
No Such Thing poster

2002

i
Tough Guys Don't Dance poster

1987

i
Perfumed Nightmare poster

1979

i
The Legend of Suriyothai poster

2001

i
Another Day poster

2001

i
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome poster

2001

i
The Escape Artist poster

1982

i
The Junky's Christmas poster

1993

i
Freda poster

2021

i
The People poster

1972

i
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called poster

2022

i
Brando poster

2007

i
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies poster

1992

i
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959 poster

2016

i
The Bellboy and the Playgirls poster

1962

i
Megadoc poster

2025

i
White Dwarf poster

1995

i
Kidnapped poster

1995

i
Parsifal poster

1982

i
The Young Racers poster

1963

i
Tying the Knot poster

2004

i
Central Park poster

1990

i
Goosed poster

1999

i
The Making of 'American Graffiti' poster

1998

i
Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club poster

2023

i
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138' poster

1971

i
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal poster

2001

i
Filmmaker poster

1968

i
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde poster

2000

i
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' poster

2007

i
The World of Jim Henson poster

1994

i
Dark Angel poster

1996

i
The Director's Chair poster

2014

i
Leçon de Cinéma poster

2004

i
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master poster

2024

i
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138' poster

2004

i
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope poster

2004

i
The Making of Captain EO poster

1986

i
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor poster

1999

i
Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle poster

1987

i
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't poster

2008

i
Sodankylä Forever poster

2010

i
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein poster

1994

i
Tecumseh: The Last Warrior poster

1995

i
Outrage poster

1998

i
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' poster

2007

i
An All Round Maid poster

1981

i
Coda: Thirty Years Later poster

2007

i
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped poster

2008

i
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather' poster

2008

i
The Making of The Virgin Suicides poster

2000

i
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back poster

2019

i
Survival on the Mountain poster

1997

i
Wim Wenders, Desperado poster

2020

i
The Making of Marie Antoinette poster

2007

i
One Morning All Over the World poster

2000

i
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka poster

2007

i
Hollywood Mavericks poster

1990

i
The Last Days of Marlon Brando poster

2008

i
Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro poster

1992

i
The Family poster

2023

i
Martin Scorsese Directs poster

1990

i
Fog City Mavericks poster

2007

i
Marlon Brando: The Wild One poster

1994

i
Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig poster

2003

i
The Making of 'One from the Heart' poster

1982

i
Lani Loa: The Passage poster

1998

i
Inside the Coppola Personality poster

1981

i
Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula' poster

2007

i
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen poster

2020

i
Morceaux de Cannes poster

2021

i
George Lucas: Creating an Empire poster

2005

i
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found poster

2005

i
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders' poster

2005

i
Shadow Brother Sunday poster

2024

i
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish' poster

2005

i
Henri Langlois vu par... poster

2014

i
Traveling Light poster

1994

i
Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto poster

2014

i
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper poster

1991

i
On the Set of CQ poster

2002

i
The Lion Roars Again poster

1975

i
Death of a Porn Queen poster

1987

i
The Godfather and the Mob poster

2006

i
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982 poster

1982

i
Lights, Action, Music poster

2007

i
Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños poster

1999

i
Rendez-Vous Video Magazine poster

1981

i
The Dream Studio poster

2004

i
The Educational Archives: Sex & Drugs poster

2003

i
Ironbound poster

1994

i
Locations: Looking for Rusty James poster

2013

i
Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema poster

2018

i
The Godfather Comes to Sixth St. poster

1976

i
Cannoli poster

2008

i
Dans les secrets des films Star Wars poster

2022

i
The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone poster

2020

i
Vem Var Dracula poster

1996

i
The New Cinema poster

1968

i
The Conversation poster

1995

i
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes poster

1971

i
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean poster

2026

i
The Family Whistle poster

2016

i
Films to Die For poster

2025

i
Twixt: A Documentary poster

2013

i
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker' poster

2007

i
Glimpses of the Moon poster

TBD

i
Artistry/Technology poster

2015

i
The Magic Voyage of Sinbad poster

1962

i
A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola poster

1997

i
No Cigar poster

1956

i
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance poster

2014

i
Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa poster

2005

i
Godfather I poster

2018

i
Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son poster

2015

i
Reflections in Blood: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker’s Dracula poster

2015

i
The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow' poster

1968

i
Inside Mishima poster

1985

i
Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa poster

2005

i
Jerry Brown: The Shape of Things to Come poster

1980

i
The Preakness poster

2024

i
Art Never Sleeps poster

TBD

i
A Conversation with Martin Sheen poster

2010

i
American Dream: Detroit poster

2018

i
The Peeper poster

1962

i
The Making of Hearts of Darkness poster

2025

i
Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos poster

2016

i
Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us poster

2025

i
Brother Verses Brother poster

2025

i
Vittorio De Sica – La Vie in Scene poster

2026

i
Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola poster

2021

i
Apocalypse Retold! poster

TBD

i
Forever Is a Long, Long Time poster

2004

i