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Francis Ford Coppola: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born April 7, 1939 (age 87) • Detroit • Michigan
Awards And Honors Kennedy Center Honors (2024) • Praemium Imperiale (2013) • Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (2011) • Academy Award (1975) • Academy Award (1973) • Academy Award (1971)
Notable Works “Apocalypse Now” • “Apocalypse Now Redux” • “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” • “Dementia 13” • “Finian’s Rainbow” • “Gardens of Stone” • “Jack” • “Megalopolis” • “One from the Heart” • “Patton” • “Peggy Sue Got Married” • “Rumble Fish” • “Tetro” • “The Conversation” • “The Cotton Club” • “The Godfather, Part II” • “The Godfather, Part III” • “The Godfather” • “The Outsiders” • “The Rain People” • “The Rainmaker” • “Tucker: The Man and His Dream” • “Twixt” • “You’re a Big Boy Now” • “Youth Without Youth”
Notable Family Members daughter Sofia Coppola

Photos

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, at right, directs Marlon Brando, in a tuxedo at left, during a crowded outdoor wedding scene from The Godfather, surrounded by extras in formal attire.
Robert Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore stands with hands on hips among helmeted soldiers in military uniforms in a scene from Apocalypse Now (1979).
Publicity still from The Outsiders (1983) showing three teenage boys, played by Ralph Macchio, C. Thomas Howell, and Matt Dillon, standing outside a storefront eating ice cream.
Salvatore Corsitto leans in to speak to Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in a dimly lit scene from the film The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
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Martin Scorsese smiling in a tuxedo and bow tie, holding an Oscar statuette at the Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background.
Martin Scorsese
American filmmaker
Billy Wilder poses in a suit and hat, leaning against a streetlamp with a sign reading Sunset Blvd. in a promotional photo for the film Sunset Boulevard.
Billy Wilder
Austrian-born American director and producer
Steven Spielberg wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smiling at the camera on the red carpet at the Cannes International Film Festival.
Steven Spielberg
American film director and producer
Mel Brooks in a tuxedo smiles widely and points at his Emmy Award trophy while posing in front of a blue Emmy Awards backdrop.
Mel Brooks
American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
George Lucas wearing a black suit and tie with a white shirt, standing in front of a dark backdrop at the 2017 LACMA Art Film Gala in Los Angeles.
George Lucas
American director, producer, and screenwriter
Warren Beatty wearing a dark jacket, white shirt, and light tie, posing at an event with a dark background, 2006.
Warren Beatty
American actor, director, and producer
Orson Welles
Orson Welles
American actor, director, and writer
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
American director, writer, and actor
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Mervyn LeRoy
American director and producer
Elia Kazan stands on a docked ship set with arms outstretched, directing a scene for Panic in the Streets in New Orleans, with crew members and rigging visible behind him.
Elia Kazan
American director and author
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
American filmmaker
Leo McCarey, seated sideways in a director's chair, looks toward the camera in a black-and-white portrait from around 1930.
Leo McCarey
American director
Ben Affleck wearing a dark suit, blue shirt, and navy tie, posing for a photo at the premiere of the film AIR with a blurred event backdrop behind him.
Ben Affleck
American actor, writer, and director
Barbra Streisand in 2010, wearing a layered necklace and a black jacket, with straight shoulder-length hair, smiling slightly at an event.
Barbra Streisand
American singer and actress
Spike Lee wearing a suit, tie, and tortoiseshell glasses at the 2007 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.
Spike Lee
American filmmaker
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
American director, producer, and screenwriter
Brooks, Richard
Richard Brooks
American writer and director
Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin
American writer and producer
Jordan Peele wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, standing in front of a blue background.
Jordan Peele
American comedian, writer, director, and producer
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James L. Brooks
American screenwriter, director, and producer

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