Directing
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.
Filmography
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
Film · 2026
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
Film · 2026
Tribeca 25
Film · 2026
Making Marie Antoinette
Film · 2026
Megadoc
Film · 2025
Films to Die For
Film · 2025
Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us
Film · 2025
The Making of Hearts of Darkness
Film · 2025
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Film · 2025
Lumière, Le Cinéma!
Film · 2024
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
Film · 2024
The Family
Film · 2023
Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club
Film · 2023
Beau geste
Series · 2023
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
Series · 2023
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
Film · 2022
LIGHT & MAGIC
Series · 2022
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Film · 2021
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Film · 2021
Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola
Film · 2021
Morceaux de Cannes
Film · 2021
Directors on Directors
Series · 2021
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Film · 2020
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
Series · 2020
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Film · 2019
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Film · 2019
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
Film · 2019
American Dream: Detroit
Film · 2018
Friedkin Uncut
Film · 2018
Godfather I
Film · 2018
Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema
Film · 2018
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
Film · 2017
Five Came Back
Film · 2017
Spielberg
Film · 2017
Five Came Back
Series · 2017
Marcians
Series · 2017
Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos
Film · 2016
The Family Whistle
Film · 2016
Listen to Me Marlon
Film · 2015
Artistry/Technology
Film · 2015
Jay Leno's Garage
Series · 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Series · 2015
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Film · 2014
Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto
Film · 2014
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Film · 2014
Henri Langlois vu par...
Film · 2014
Palo Alto
Film · 2014
The Director's Chair
Series · 2014
Seduced and Abandoned
Film · 2013
Milius
Film · 2013
Trespassing Bergman
Film · 2013
Twixt: A Documentary
Film · 2013
The Godfather Legacy
Film · 2012
A Conversation with Martin Sheen
Film · 2010
The People vs. George Lucas
Film · 2010
Sodankylä Forever
Series · 2010
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Film · 2009
C à vous
Series · 2009
Cannoli
Film · 2008
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
Film · 2008
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
Film · 2008
The Last Days of Marlon Brando
Film · 2008
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Film · 2008
Coda: Thirty Years Later
Film · 2007
Fog City Mavericks
Film · 2007
Brando
Film · 2007
Lights, Action, Music
Film · 2007
The Making of Marie Antoinette
Film · 2007
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
Film · 2007
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Film · 2007
Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'
Film · 2007
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Film · 2007
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
Film · 2007
The Godfather and the Mob
Film · 2006
Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa
Film · 2005
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
Film · 2005
Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa
Film · 2005
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
Film · 2005
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
Film · 2005
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Film · 2004
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
Film · 2004
The Dream Studio
Film · 2004
Tying the Knot
Film · 2004
Leçon de Cinéma
Series · 2004
A Decade Under the Influence
Film · 2003
Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
Film · 2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Film · 2003
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
Film · 2002
On the Set of CQ
Film · 2002
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Film · 2001
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Film · 2001
The Making of The Virgin Suicides
Film · 2000
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
Film · 1999
Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños
Film · 1999
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Film · 1998
A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola
Film · 1997
The Daily Show
Series · 1996
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Film · 1994
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Film · 1994
The World of Jim Henson
Film · 1994
Inside the Actors Studio
Series · 1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Series · 1993
Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro
Film · 1992
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
Film · 1992
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Film · 1991
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
Film · 1991
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
Film · 1990
Martin Scorsese Directs
Film · 1990
Central Park
Film · 1990
Hollywood Mavericks
Film · 1990
Death of a Porn Queen
Film · 1987
Sacrée soirée
Series · 1987
The Making of Captain EO
Film · 1986
Inside Mishima
Film · 1985
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
Film · 1982
The Making of 'One from the Heart'
Film · 1982
Late Night with David Letterman
Series · 1982
Inside the Coppola Personality
Film · 1981
Rendez-Vous Video Magazine
Film · 1981
Apocalypse Now
Film · 1979
The Kennedy Center Honors
Series · 1978
The South Bank Show
Series · 1978
Please Turn the Page
Series · 1977
The Godfather Comes to Sixth St.
Film · 1976
The Lion Roars Again
Film · 1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Series · 1975
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
Arena
Series · 1975
Spécial cinéma
Series · 1974
Dinah!
Series · 1974
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
Film · 1971
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
Film · 1971
Great Performances
Series · 1971
Film '72
Series · 1971
The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'
Film · 1968
Filmmaker
Film · 1968
The New Cinema
Film · 1968
The Young Racers
Film · 1963
War Hunt
Film · 1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Series · 1961
The Oscars
Series · 1953
Art Never Sleeps
Film
Close-Up on The Conversation
Film