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Francis Ford Coppola (/kopl/; born April 7, 1939) Italy.[7] Coppola received his middle name in honor of
is an American lm director, producer and screenwriter. Henry Ford, not only because he was born in the Henry
He was part of the New Hollywood wave of lmmaking. Ford Hospital but also because of his musician-fathers
After directing The Rain People in 1969, he won the association with the automobile manufacturer. At the
time of Coppolas birth, his father was a autist as well
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as cowriter, with Edmund H. North, of Patton in 1970. His as arranger and assistant orchestra director for The Ford
an hour-long concert music radio
directorial prominence was cemented with the release Sunday Evening Hour,
Ford Motor Company.[8][9][10]
series
sponsored
by
the
in 1972 of The Godfather, a lm which revolutionized
movie-making in the gangster genre,[1] earning praise Two years after Coppolas birth, his father was named
from both critics and the public before winning three principal autist for the NBC Symphony Orchestra and
Academy Awardsincluding his second Oscar (Best the family moved to New York, settling in Woodside,
Adapted Screenplay, with Mario Puzo), Best Picture, and Queens, where Coppola spent the remainder of his childhood.
his rst nomination for Best Director.
Contracting polio as a boy, Coppola was bedridden for
large periods of his childhood, allowing him to indulge
his imagination with homemade puppet theater productions. Reading A Streetcar Named Desire at age 15 was
instrumental in developing his interest in theater.[11] Eager to be involved in lm-craft, he created 8mm features edited from home movies with such titles as The
Rich Millionaire and The Lost Wallet.[12] As a child, Coppola was a mediocre student, but he was so interested in
technology and engineering that his friends nicknamed
him Science.[13] Trained initially for a career in music, he became procient on the tuba and won a music scholarship to the New York Military Academy.[12]
Overall, Coppola attended 23 other schools[14] before he
eventually graduated from the Great Neck North High
School.[15] He entered Hofstra College in 1955 with a major in theater arts. There he was awarded a scholarship in
playwriting. This furthered his interest in directing theater despite the disapproval of his father, who wanted
him to study engineering.[16] Coppola was profoundly
impressed after seeing Sergei Eisenstein's October: Ten
Days That Shook the World, especially with the movies
quality of editing. It was at this time Coppola decided
he would go into cinema rather than theater.[16] Coppola
says he was tremendously inuenced to become a writer
early on by his brother, August,[14] in whose footsteps he
would also follow by attending both of his brothers alma
maters: Hofstra and UCLA. Coppola also gives credit
to the work of Elia Kazan and for its inuence on him
as a director.[14] Amongst Coppolas classmates at Hofstra were James Caan, Lainie Kazan and radio artist Joe
Frank.[15][17] He later cast Lainie Kazan in One from the
Heart and Caan in The Rain People and The Godfather.
Early life
edy club). He then merged the two into The Spectrum Players and under his leadership, they staged a new
production each week. Coppola also founded the cinema workshop at Hofstra and contributed prolically to
the campus literary magazine.[12] He won three D. H.
Lawrence Awards for theatrical production and direction and received a Beckerman Award for his outstanding contributions to the schools theater arts division.[18]
While a graduate student, one of his teachers was Dorothy
Arzner, whose encouragement Coppola later acknowledged as pivotal to his lm career.[11]
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2.1
Career
1960s
CAREER
2.2
1970s
Andrew Sarris wrote, "[Coppola] is probably the rst rea- become an iconic scene and has spawned parodies in nusonably talented and sensibly adaptable directorial talent merous lms, political cartoons and television shows.
to emerge from a university curriculum in lm-making...
[He] may be heard from more decisively in the future.[24]
2.2.2 The Godfather (1972)
2.2
1970s
Patton (1970)
When the title role was oered to George C. Scott, he remembered having read Coppolas screenplay earlier. He
stated atly that he would accept the part only if they used
Coppolas script. 'Scott is the one who resurrected my
version,' says Coppola.[27]
The movie opens with Scotts rendering of Pattons famous military Pep Talk to members of the Third Army,
set against a huge American ag. Coppola and North
had to tone down Pattons actual language to avoid an
R rating; in the opening monologue, the word fornicating replaced fucking when criticizing the The Saturday
Evening Post. Over the years, this opening monologue has
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was an extremely nightmarish experience. I
had two little kids, and the third one was born
during that. We lived in a little apartment, and
I was basically frightened that they didn't like
it. They had as much as said that, so when it
was all over I wasn't at all condent that it was
going to be successful, and that I'd ever get
another job.
2.2.3
2.2.4
2.2.5
CAREER
2.3
1980s
5
pola himself was forced into US bankruptcy court three
times over the next eight years.
2.3.2
Hammett (1982)
2.3.3
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2.3.5
2
The Cotton Club (1984)
CAREER
Captain EO (1986)
2.4
1990s
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times the normal rate, so at the age of ten he looks like
a 40-year-old man. With Diane Lane, Brian Kerwin
and Bill Cosby, Jack also featured Jennifer Lopez, Fran
Drescher and Michael McKean in supporting roles. Although a moderate box-oce success, grossing $58 million domestically on an estimated $45 million budget, it
was panned by critics, many of whom disliked the lms
abrupt contrast between actual comedy and tragic melodrama. It was also unfavourably compared with the 1988
lm Big, in which Tom Hanks also played a child in a
grown mans body. Most critics felt that the screenplay
was poorly written, not funny and the dramatic material
was unconvincing and unbelievable. Other critics felt that
Coppola was too talented to be making this type of lm.
Although ridiculed for making the lm, Coppola has defended it, saying he is not ashamed of the nal cut of
the movie. He had been friends with Robin Williams
for many years and had always wanted to work with him
as an actor. When Williams was oered the screenplay
for Jack he said he would only agree to do it if Coppola
agreed to sign on as director.
2.4.4
Jack (1996)
The last lm Coppola directed in the 90s, The Rainmaker, was based on the 1995 novel of the same name by
John Grisham. An ensemble courtroom drama, the lm
was well received by critics, earning an 88% rating on
Rotten Tomatoes.[69] Roger Ebert gave The Rainmaker
three stars out of four, remarking: I have enjoyed several of the movies based on Grisham novels... but I've
usually seen the storytellers craft rather than the novelists art being reected. By keeping all of the little people
in focus, Coppola shows the variety of a young lawyers
life, where every client is necessary and most of them
need a lot more than a lawyer.[70] James Berardinelli
also gave the lm three stars out of four, saying that the
intelligence and subtlety of The Rainmaker took me by
surprise and that the lm stands above any other lmed
Grisham adaptation.[71] Grisham said of the lm, To
me its the best adaptation of any of [my books]... I love
the movie. Its so well done.[72] The lm grossed about
$45 million domestically.[73] This would be more than the
estimated production budget of $40 million, but a disappointment compared with previous lms adapted from a
Grisham novel.
2.4.5
CAREER
2.5
2.5.1
2000s
Youth Without Youth (2007)
2.5.2
Tetro (2009)
3.4
Uptown Theater
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with the help of his father, wife and children stomping
the grapes barefoot and every year the family has a harvest party to continue the tradition.[92]
After purchasing the property, he produced wine under the Niebaum-Coppola label. When he purchased
the former Inglenook Winery chateau in 1995,[93] he re2.6 2010s
named the winery Rubicon Estate Winery in 2006. On
11 April 2011, Coppola acquired the iconic Inglenook
2.6.1 Twixt (2011)
trademark[94] paying more, he said, for the trademark
than he did for the entire estate[95] and announced that
Main article: Twixt (lm)
the estate would once again be known by its historic original name, Inglenook. Its grapes are now entirely organTwixt, starring Val Kilmer, Elle Fanning, Joanne Whal- ically grown and its Inglenook Chablis is one of the ve
ley and Bruce Dern and narrated by Tom Waits, was re- most-widely-selling wines in US restaurants.[96]
leased to lm festivals in late 2011[88] and was released
theatrically in early 2012. It received critical acclaim in
France,[89] but mostly negative reviews elsewhere.[90]
3.4 Uptown Theater
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3.1
Commercial ventures
American Zoetrope
3.2
His company American Zoetrope also administers the innovative Zoetrope Virtual Studio, a complete motion picture production studio for members only. Launched in
June 2000, the culmination of more than four years work,
it brings together departments for screenwriters, directors, producers and other lmmaker artists, plus new departments for other creative endeavours, oering powerful e-collaborative tools. Filmmaker members can workshop a wide range of lm arts, including music, graphics,
3.5.2 Resorts
design and lm and video.
3.3
Inglenook Winery
Coppola, with his family, expanded his business ventures to include winemaking in Californias Napa Valley,
when in 1975 he purchased the former home and adjoining vineyard of Gustave Niebaum in Rutherford, California using proceeds from the rst movie in the Godfather
trilogy.[91] His winery produced its rst vintage in 1977
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5 HONORS
4 Other ventures
Coppola stated that The Godfather Part IV was never
made as Mario Puzo died before they had a chance to
write the lm.[109] Andy Garcia has since claimed the
lms script was nearly produced.[109]
He was the jury president at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival and he also took part as a special guest at the 46th
International Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece.
Over the years, Francis Coppola has given political contributions to several candidates of the Democratic Party,
including Mike Thompson and Nancy Pelosi for the U.S.
House of Representatives and Barbara Boxer and Alan
Cranston for the U.S. Senate.[110]
For quite some time, he had been planning to direct an
epic movie named Megalopolis, a story about the aftermath and reconstruction of New York City after a megadisaster, but after the city was hit by the real life disaster
and Palazzo Margherita of September 11, the project was suddenly seen as being too sensitive.[111] In 2007 he stated that I have abandoned that as of now. I plan to begin a process of making
one personal movie after another and if something leads
me back to look at that, which I'm sure it might, I'll see
what makes sense to me.[112]
3.5.3
3.5.4
Literary publications
5 Honors
In the 2002 poll of the Sight and Sound publication,
Coppola ranked #4 in the Directors top ten directors of all time[113] and #10 in the Critics top ten
directors of all time.[114]
He featured at #17 in MovieMaker Magazine's 25
most inuential directors of all-time.[115]
He also ranked #9 in toptenreviews list of top directors of all time[116] and at #21 in Entertainment
Weekly's top 50 directors of all time.[117]
Four of Coppolas lms, The Godfather; The Godfather Part II; Apocalypse Now and Patton featured
in the Writers Guild of America, West list of 101
greatest screenplays ever.[118]
Three of his lms feature in AFIs 100 Years...100
Movies: The Godfather (at #2), Apocalypse Now (at
#28) and The Godfather Part II (at #32). The Godfather also ranks at #11 in AFIs 100 Years100
Thrills. The following Coppola lms were also
nominated for the list: American Grati (1973)
Producer; The Conversation (1974) Director/Producer/Screenwriter; Patton (1970) Screenwriter.
In 1991, he was honored with the Berlinale Camera
at the Berlin International Film Festival.[119]
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In 1992, he was awarded a Golden Lion Honorary
Award at the Venice Film Festival.[119]
In 1998, the Directors Guild of America honored
him with a Lifetime Achievement Award.[119]
He was honored with a special 50th anniversary
award for his impressive career at the 2002 San Sebastin International Film Festival.[119]
The same year he received a gala tribute from Film
Society of Lincoln Center.[119]
In 2003, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement
Award at the Denver Film Festival.[119]
He was given an honorary award at the 2007 Antalya
Golden Orange Film Festival.[120]
In 2010, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences decided to honor him with the Irving G.
Thalberg Memorial Award at the 2nd Governors
Awards in November.[121][122] The honor was bestowed on him on November 13, along with honorary Oscars to Jean-Luc Godard, Kevin Brownlow
and Eli Wallach.[123]
In 2013, he was awarded a Praemium Imperiale in
the theatre/lm category.[124][125][126]
Coppola serves as the Honorary Consul H. E. Francis Ford Coppola in San Francisco for the Central
American nation of Belize.[127]
On October 1, 2014, Coppola was inducted into the
California Hall of Fame by Governor Edmund G.
Jerry Brown, Jr.[128]
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List of celebrities who own wineries and vineyards
List of wine personalities
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EXTERNAL LINKS
9 Further reading
Jerey Chown (May 1988). Hollywood auteur:
Francis Coppola. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 9780-275-92910-7.
10 External links
Francis Ford Coppola at the Internet Movie
Database
Francis Ford Coppola at AllMovie
Francis Ford Coppola: Texas Monthly Talks,
YouTube video posted on November 24, 2008
2007 Francis Ford Coppola Video Interview with
InterviewingHollywood.com
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