Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher and hotelier. He is a graduate of Hofstra University where he studied theatre. He earned an M.F.A. in film directing from the UCLA Film School. He is most renowned for directing the Godfather films, The Conversation, Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 Dracula Film) and the Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now.
In 1971, Coppola's film The Godfather (1972) became one of the highest-grossing movies in history and brought him an Oscar for writing the screenplay with Mario Puzo The film was a Best Picture Academy Award-winner, and also brought Coppola a Best Director Oscar nomination. Following his work on the screenplay for The Great Gatsby (1974), Coppola's next film was The Conversation (1974), which was honored with the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and brought Coppola Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay Oscar nominations. Also released that year, The Godfather: Part II (1974). rivaled the success of The Godfather (1972), and won six Academy Awards, bringing Coppola Oscars as a producer, director and writer. Coppola then began work on his most ambitious film, Apocalypse Now (1979), a Vietnam War epic that was inspired by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1993) (TV). Released in 1979, the acclaimed film won a Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and two Academy Awards . Also that year, Coppola executive produced the hit The Black Stallion (1979). With George Lucas, Coppola executive produced Kagemusha, directed by Akira Kurosawa, and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, directed by Paul Schrader, and based on the life and writings of Yukio Mishima. Coppola also executive produced such films as The Escape Artist (1982), Hammett (1982) The Black Stallion Returns (1983), Barfly (1987), Wind (1992), The Secret Garden (1993) etc


Film Directed By Coppola
Year Film
1963 Dementia 13
1966 You're a Big Boy Now
1968 Finian's Rainbow
1969 The Rain People
1972 The Godfather
1974 The Conversation
The Godfather Part II
1979 Apocalypse Now
1982 One from the Heart
Hammett (uncredited)
1983 The Outsiders
Rumble Fish
1984 The Cotton Club
1986 Captain EO
Peggy Sue Got Married
1987 Gardens of Stone
1988 Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1989 New York Stories
1990 The Godfather Part III
1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula
1996 Jack
1997 The Rainmaker
2000 Supernova (uncredited), with Walter Hill and Jack Sholder
2007 Youth Without Youth
2009 Tetro