Francis Ford Coppola is an American director and producer, a leading figure of the New Hollywood generation of the 1970s, best known for The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, which won him multiple Academy Awards including Best Picture, and for Apocalypse Now, a large-scale and famously troubled production about the Vietnam War. Coppola founded the independent production company American Zoetrope in 1969 to work outside the traditional studio system, and beyond filmmaking he built a significant winemaking business in California's Napa Valley. His family, including daughter Sofia Coppola, has continued his filmmaking legacy into later generations.
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AwardAcademy Award for Best Director 1 AwardDirectors Guild of America Award 1 AwardBAFTA Award for Best Director 1 AwardAcademy Award for Best Picture 1 AwardWriters Guild of America Award 1 AwardIrving G. Thalberg Memorial Award 1 AwardAcademy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay 1 AwardAcademy Award for Best Original Screenplay 1 Defining ContributionThe Godfather films, which revolutionized the gangster genre 1 Connections
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Directed The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974) for Paramount Pictures.
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1939-04-07
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The films revolutionized the gangster genre.
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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
The Godfather, Wikipedia
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The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel.
The Godfather Part II, Wikipedia
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The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American epic gangster film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, loosely based on the 1969 novel The Godfather by Mario Puzo, who co-wrote the screenplay with Coppola.
The Conversation (1974 film) (Wikipedia)
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The Conversation is a 1974 American neo-noir mystery thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Apocalypse Now Redux - Wikipedia
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Apocalypse Now Redux is a 2001 American extended version of Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now.
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