Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola was born on Apr 07, 1939 in USA. Francis Ford Coppola's big-screen debut came with Battle Beyond the Sun directed by Mikhail Karyukov in 1959. Francis Ford Coppola is known for Kinsey directed by Bill Condon, Liam Neeson stars as Alfred Kinsey and Laura Linney as Clara McMillen. Francis Ford Coppola has got 56 awards and 57 nominations so far. The most recent award Francis Ford Coppola achieved is ICG Publicists Awards. The upcoming new movie Francis Ford Coppola plays is Distant Vision which will be released on Jul 22, 2016.

Francis Ford Coppola was born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician. His mother, Italia Coppola (née Pennino), had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated with a degree in drama from Hofstra University, and did graduate work at UCLA in filmmaking. He was training as assistant with filmmaker Roger Corman, working in such capacities as sound-man, dialogue director, associate producer and, eventually, director of Dementia 13 (1963), Coppola's first feature film. During the next four years, Coppola was involved in a variety of script collaborations, including writing an adaptation of "This Property is Condemned" by Tennessee Williams (with Fred Coe and Edith Sommer), and screenplays for Paris brûle-t-il ? (1966) and Patton (1970), the film for which Coppola won a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award. In 1966, Coppola's 2nd film brought him critical acclaim and a Master of Fine Arts degree. In 1969, Coppola and George Lucas established American Zoetrope, an independent film production company based in San Francisco. The company's first project was THX 1138 (1971), produced by Coppola and directed by Lucas. Coppola also produced the second film that Lucas directed, American Graffiti (1973), in 1973. This movie got five Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture. In 1971, Coppola's film Le Parrain (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 Gatsby le magnifique (1974), Coppola's next film was Conversation secrète (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, Le Parrain, 2ᵉ partie (1974), rivaled the success of Le Parrain (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 Au coeur des ténèbres (1993). 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 L'Étalon noir (1979). With George Lucas, Coppola executive produced Kagemusha : L'Ombre du guerrier (1980), directed by Akira Kurosawa, and Mishima - une vie en quatre chapitres (1985), 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) Le retour de l'étalon noir (1983), Barfly (1987), Wind (1992), Le jardin secret (1993), etc.He helped to make a star of his nephew, Nicolas Cage. Personal tragedy hit in 1986 when his son Gio died in a boating accident. Francis Ford Coppola is one of America's most erratic, energetic and controversial filmmakers.