Francis Ford Coppola

Known For: Directing
Born: April 7, 1939
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA

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 fo…

Filmography

Pinocchio: Unstrung

2026 · Thanks

Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life

2026 · Self

Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean

2026 · Self

Films to Die For

2025 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us

2025 · Himself

The Making of Hearts of Darkness

2025 · Himself

Megadoc

2025 · Self

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

2025 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Brother Verses Brother

2025 · Executive Producer

The Last Showgirl

2024 · Thanks

Lumière, Le Cinéma!

2024 · Self

The Preakness

2024 · Thanks

Megalopolis

2024 · Writer, Director, Producer

Shadow Brother Sunday

2024 · Executive Producer

Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master

2024 · Self (archive) - director

Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club

2023 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma

2023 · Self - Guest

The Family

2023 · Self

Beau geste

2023 · Self

LIGHT & MAGIC

2022 · Self (archive footage)

Dans les secrets des films Star Wars

2022 · Self ( Archives)

Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called

2022 · Self (archive footage)

Freda

2021 · Executive Producer

Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola

Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola

2021 · Self

Morceaux de Cannes

2021

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

2021 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

2021 · Self (archive footage)

Directors on Directors

2021 · Self

Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen

Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen

2020 · Self

The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone

2020 · Director, Writer, Producer

Wim Wenders, Desperado

2020 · Self

Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back

2019 · Self

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

2019 · Self (archive footage)

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

2019 · Self

Friedkin Uncut

2018 · Self

American Dream: Detroit

2018 · Self - Interviewee

Godfather I

2018 · Self

Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema

2018 · Self

Marcians

2017 · Self

Spielberg

2017 · Self

Five Came Back

2017 · Self

Five Came Back

2017 · Self

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

2017 · Self

Paris Can Wait

2016 · Thanks

Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos

2016 · Self

The Family Whistle

2016 · Self

The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959

2016 · Producer, Screenplay, Director

Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son

2015 · Self, Thanks

Reflections in Blood: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker’s Dracula

2015 · Self, Thanks

Jay Leno's Garage

2015 · Self

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015 · Self

Artistry/Technology

2015 · Self

Listen to Me Marlon

2015 · Self (archive footage)

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

2014 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

2014 · Self (archive footage)

Henri Langlois vu par...

2014 · Self, Director

Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto

2014 · Self

The Director's Chair

2014 · Self

Palo Alto

2014 · The Judge (voice) (uncredited)

Oldboy

2013 · Thanks

Locations: Looking for Rusty James

2013 · Technical Advisor

Trespassing Bergman

2013 · Self

Twixt: A Documentary

2013 · Self

The Bling Ring

2013 · Executive Producer

Seduced and Abandoned

2013 · Self

Milius

2013 · Self

The Godfather Legacy

2012 · Self

On the Road

2012 · Executive Producer

Twixt

2011 · Director, Producer, Songs, Writer

Somewhere

2010 · Executive Producer

A Conversation with Martin Sheen

2010 · Self

Sodankylä Forever

2010 · Self

The People vs. George Lucas

2010 · Self (archive footage)

C à vous

2009 · Self - Guest

Tetro

2009 · Director, Producer, Writer

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

2009 · Self

Cannoli

2008 · Self

Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'

2008 · Self

The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped

2008 · Self

The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

2008 · Self

The Last Days of Marlon Brando

2008 · Self (archive Footage)

Coda: Thirty Years Later

Coda: Thirty Years Later

2007 · Self, Executive Producer

Youth Without Youth

2007 · Director, Producer, Writer

Fog City Mavericks

2007 · Self

The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'

2007 · Self (archive footage)

The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka

2007 · Self

Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'

2007 · Self

In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'

2007 · Self

Lights, Action, Music

2007 · Self

Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'

2007 · Self

The Making of Marie Antoinette

2007 · Self

Brando

2007 · Self (archive footage)

The Good Shepherd

2006 · Executive Producer

Marie Antoinette

2006 · Executive Producer

The Godfather and the Mob

2006 · Self (archive footage)

Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'

2005 · Self

On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'

2005 · Self (archive footage)

Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found

2005 · Self

Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa

2005 · Self

George Lucas: Creating an Empire

2005 · Self

Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa

Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa

2005 · Self

Tying the Knot

2004 · Self

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

2004 · Self

Kinsey

2004 · Executive Producer

Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'

Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'

2004 · Self

She Hate Me

2004 · Thanks

Leçon de Cinéma

2004 · Self

The Dream Studio

2004 · self

Forever Is a Long, Long Time

Forever Is a Long, Long Time

2004 · Executive Producer

Lost in Translation

2003 · Thanks, Executive Producer

Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig

2003 · Self

Jeepers Creepers 2

2003 · Executive Producer

A Decade Under the Influence

2003 · Self

Platinum

2003 · Executive Producer

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

2003 · Self

Assassination Tango

2003 · Executive Producer

The Educational Archives: Sex & Drugs

2003 · Executive Producer

On the Set of CQ

On the Set of CQ

2002 · Self

Pumpkin

2002 · Executive Producer

No Such Thing

2002 · Executive Producer

Another Day

2001 · Executive Producer

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

2001 · Self

Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal

2001 · Self

The Legend of Suriyothai

2001 · Executive Producer

Jeepers Creepers

2001 · Executive Producer

CQ

2001 · Executive Producer

The Making of The Virgin Suicides

2000 · Self

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

2000 · Executive Producer

The Virgin Suicides

2000 · Producer

One Morning All Over the World

2000 · Director

Sleepy Hollow

1999 · Executive Producer

The Third Miracle

1999 · Executive Producer

Goosed

1999 · Executive Producer

The Florentine

1999 · Producer

Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños

Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños

1999 · Self

Kurosawa: The Last Emperor

1999 · Self

Lani Loa: The Passage

Lani Loa: The Passage

1998 · Executive Producer

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

1998 · Self

First Wave

1998 · Producer

Moby Dick

1998 · Executive Producer

Outrage

1998 · Executive Producer

A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola

1997 · Self

The Rainmaker

1997 · Director, Screenplay, Producer

Buddy

1997 · Executive Producer

The Odyssey

1997 · Executive Producer

Survival on the Mountain

1997 · Executive Producer

Vem Var Dracula

1996 · Self

Dark Angel

1996 · Executive Producer

Jack

1996 · Producer, Director

The Daily Show

1996 · Self

Kidnapped

1995 · Executive Producer

Haunted

1995 · Executive Producer

Tecumseh: The Last Warrior

1995 · Executive Producer

White Dwarf

1995 · Executive Producer

My Family

1995 · Executive Producer

The Conversation

The Conversation

1995 · Producer

The World of Jim Henson

1994 · Self

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

1994 · Producer

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

1994 · Self

Don Juan DeMarco

1994 · Producer

Inside the Actors Studio

1994 · Self

Marlon Brando: The Wild One

1994 · Self

Ironbound

1994 · Producer

Traveling Light

Traveling Light

1994 · Producer

In the Name of the Father

1993 · Thanks

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

1993 · Self - Guest

The Secret Garden

1993 · Executive Producer

The Junky's Christmas

1993 · Producer

Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies

1992 · Self

Bram Stoker's Dracula

1992 · Director, Producer

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

1992 · Director, Producer, Screenplay

Wind

1992 · Executive Producer

Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro

Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro

1992 · Self

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

1991 · Self, Executive Producer

Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper

Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper

1991 · Self

The Godfather Part III

1990 · Producer, Screenplay, Director, Songs

Hollywood Mavericks

1990 · Self

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

1990 · Self, Executive Producer

Martin Scorsese Directs

1990 · Self

Central Park

1990 · Self

The Outsiders

1990 · Producer

New York Stories

1989 · Writer, Director

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

1988 · Director, Producer

Powaqqatsi

1988 · Presenter, Executive Producer

Tough Guys Don't Dance

1987 · Executive Producer

Sacrée soirée

1987 · Self

Barfly

1987 · Presenter, Executive Producer

Lionheart

1987 · Executive Producer

Death of a Porn Queen

1987 · Self (archive footage)

Gardens of Stone

1987 · Director, Producer

Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle

1987 · Director

Peggy Sue Got Married

1986 · Director, Producer

The Making of Captain EO

1986 · Self

Captain EO

1986 · Director, Producer, Writer

Inside Mishima

1985 · Self

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

1985 · Executive Producer

The Cotton Club

1984 · Screenplay, Director, Producer, Story

Rumble Fish

1983 · Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer

Koyaanisqatsi

1983 · Executive Producer

The Outsiders

1983 · Director, Producer

The Black Stallion Returns

1983 · Executive Producer

Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982

1982 · Self

Faerie Tale Theatre

1982 · Director

The Making of 'One from the Heart'

1982 · Self, Executive Producer

Hammett

1982 · Executive Producer

The Escape Artist

1982 · Executive Producer

Parsifal

1982 · Executive Producer

One from the Heart

1982 · Director, Screenplay, Presenter

Late Night with David Letterman

1982 · Self - Guest

Inside the Coppola Personality

1981 · Self

Rendez-Vous Video Magazine

1981 · Self (segment "Coppola")

An All Round Maid

1981 · Producer

Kagemusha

1980 · Executive Producer

Jerry Brown: The Shape of Things to Come

1980 · Director, Executive Producer

The Black Stallion

1979 · Executive Producer

Apocalypse Now

1979 · Creator

Apocalypse Now

1979 · Director of TV Crew (uncredited), Producer, Writer, Original Music Composer

Perfumed Nightmare

1979 · Executive Producer

The Kennedy Center Honors

1978 · Self - Honoree

Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television

1977 · Producer, Writer, Director, Screenplay, Creator

Please Turn the Page

Please Turn the Page

1977 · Self

The Godfather Comes to Sixth St.

The Godfather Comes to Sixth St.

1976 · Self

Saturday Night Live

1975 · Self - Director

Arena

1975 · Self

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975 · Self

The Lion Roars Again

The Lion Roars Again

1975 · Self

The Godfather Part II

1974 · Producer, Screenplay, Director

Dinah!

1974 · Self

Spécial cinéma

1974 · Self

The Conversation

1974 · Director, Producer, Writer

The Great Gatsby

1974 · Screenplay

The Way We Were

1973 · Additional Writing

American Graffiti

1973 · Producer

Paper Moon

1973 · Executive Producer

The Godfather

1972 · Screenplay, Producer, Director

The People

1972 · Executive Producer

Film '72

1971 · Self

THX 1138

1971 · Executive Producer

Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'

1971 · Self

Great Performances

1971 · Self

The Godfather: Behind the Scenes

1971 · Self

Patton

1970 · Screenplay, Screenstory

The Rain People

1969 · Writer, Director, Producer

Filmmaker

1968 · Self, Producer

Finian's Rainbow

1968 · Director

The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'

1968 · Self

The New Cinema

1968 · Self

You're a Big Boy Now

1966 · Director, Writer

Is Paris Burning?

1966 · Screenplay

This Property Is Condemned

1966 · Screenplay

Dementia 13

1963 · Writer, Director, Stunts

The Haunted Palace

1963 · Additional Dialogue, Writer

The Terror

1963 · Associate Producer

The Young Racers

1963 · (uncredited), Sound

The Magic Voyage of Sinbad

1962 · Additional Writing

Tonight for Sure

1962 · Director, Writer, Producer

The Peeper

1962 · Writer, Director, Cinematography

War Hunt

1962 · Army Truck Driver (uncredited)

The Bellboy and the Playgirls

1962 · Writer, Director

The Mike Douglas Show

1961 · Self

Battle Beyond the Sun

1959 · Associate Producer, Director

No Cigar

1956 · Director

The Oscars

1953 · Self

Art Never Sleeps

Art Never Sleeps

— · Self

Glimpses of the Moon

Glimpses of the Moon

— · Director, Screenplay, Producer

Apocalypse Retold!

— · Original Concept

Thank You Mr. Brown

Thank You Mr. Brown

— · Executive Producer

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