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Where did Francis Ford Coppola study drama and filmmaking?

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Francis Ford Coppola, with a beard, sits on a camera dolly surrounded by crew and actors on the set of The Godfather: Part II, with storefronts in the background. — Francis Ford Coppola American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola won the Oscar for best director for *The Godfather: Part II* (1974).

Francis Ford Coppola earned a B.A. in drama from Hofstra University before pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he studied filmmaking.1