Francis Ford Coppola
Gender: Male
Born: 7th April 1939 (currently 73 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: Apocalypse Now, Apocalypse Now Redux, Battle Beyond the Sun, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Captain EO, Dementia 13, Finian's Rainbow, Gardens of Stone, Godfather Trilogy, Jack, New York Stories, One from the Heart, Peggy Sue Got Married, Rumble Fish, Supernova, Tetro, The Bellboy and the Playgirls, The Conversation, The Cotton Club, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Godfather Part III, The Godfather Saga, The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980, The Outsiders, The Rain People, The Rainmaker, The Terror, Tonight for Sure, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Twixt, You're a Big Boy Now, Youth Without Youth
Francis Ford Coppola ( /ˈkoʊpələ/ KOH-pə-lə; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors. He epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Peter Bogdanovich, and Brian De Palma who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.
He co-wrote the script for Patton (1970), which won an Academy Award for Original Screenplay. His directorial fame escalated with the release of The Godfather (1972), a film which revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre, earning praise from critics and public alike. It won three Academy Awards, including his second, for Best Adapted Screenplay, and was instrumental in cementing his position as a prominent American film director.
Coppola followed it with a critically successful sequel, The Godfather Part II (1974), which became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film was highly praised and won him three Academy Awards—for Best Adapted
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