Francis Ford Coppola

32 films directed 28 Awards 4 Nominations

Biography

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 followed it with an equally successful sequel The Godfather Part II, which became the first ever sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film received yet higher praises than its predecessor, and gave him three Academy Awards—for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture. In the same year was released The Conversation, which he directed, produced and wrote. The film went on to win the Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. His next directorial venture was Apocalypse Now in 1979, and it was as notorious for its lengthy and troubled production as it was critically acclaimed for its vivid and stark depiction of the Vietnam War. It won his second Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.

Although some of Coppola's ventures in the 1980s and early 1990s were critically lauded, Coppola's later work has not met the same level of critical and commercial success as his '70s films.

Most directed genres

Recurring actors

Awards and nominations

2025 AFI Life Achievement Award
2019 Lumière Award, Lyon Festival of cinema
2015 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts
2014 California Hall of Fame
2013 Praemium Imperiale
2011 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
2007 Officer of the Legion of Honour
2005 Golden Eagle Awards
2002 Donostia Award
1992 Inkpot Award
1992 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
1980 BAFTA Award for Best Direction
1980 Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Nominated
1975 Academy Award for Best Picture
1975 Academy Award for Best Director
1975 Writers Guild of America Award
1975 Academy Award for Best Picture Nominated
1975 Academy Award for Best Director Nominated
1975 Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay Nominated
1974 Palme d'Or
1973 Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
1973 Golden Globe Awards
1971 Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
1969 Golden Shell
— Princess of Asturias Awards
— Directors Guild of America Award
— Order of Merit of the Principality of Liechtenstein
— Kennedy Center Honors
— National Board of Review Award for Best Film
— Order of the Star of Italy
— Mary Pickford Award
— Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The career in numbers

US$ 649 mi Total budget from 25 film(s) with data
US$ 1.1 bi Total box office from 22 film(s) with data
US$ 26 mi Average budget from 25 film(s) with data
US$ 51 mi Average box office from 22 film(s) with data
6.8 Average rating from 26 film(s) with data
2.1× Return on investment from 22 film(s) with data

Budget and box office do not exist for every film in our records. Averages are computed over the films that carry the figure, and the count beside each one says how many.

Films directed

Film	Year	Budget	Box office	Rating
Megalopolis	2024	US$ 120 mi	US$ 14 mi	5.2
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959	2016	—	—	9.0
Henri Langlois vu par...	2014	—	—	5.0
Twixt	2011	US$ 7 mi	US$ 647,839	5.1
Tetro	2009	US$ 15 mi	US$ 3 mi	6.8
Youth Without Youth	2007	US$ 1 mi	US$ 3 mi	6.1
The Rainmaker	1997	US$ 40 mi	US$ 46 mi	7.0
Jack	1996	US$ 45 mi	US$ 59 mi	6.3
Bram Stoker's Dracula	1992	US$ 40 mi	US$ 216 mi	7.4
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980	1992	US$ 73 mi	—	8.9
The Godfather Part III	1990	US$ 54 mi	US$ 137 mi	7.4
New York Stories	1989	US$ 15 mi	US$ 11 mi	6.2
Tucker: The Man and His Dream	1988	US$ 23 mi	US$ 20 mi	6.7
Gardens of Stone	1987	US$ 14 mi	US$ 5 mi	6.2
Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle	1987	—	—	6.4
Peggy Sue Got Married	1986	US$ 18 mi	US$ 41 mi	6.1
Captain EO	1986	US$ 24 mi	—	7.8
The Cotton Club	1984	US$ 58 mi	US$ 26 mi	6.5
The Outsiders	1983	US$ 10 mi	US$ 34 mi	7.2
Rumble Fish	1983	US$ 10 mi	US$ 2 mi	7.0
One from the Heart	1982	US$ 26 mi	US$ 716,612	5.9
Apocalypse Now	1979	US$ 32 mi	US$ 150 mi	8.3
The Godfather Part II	1974	US$ 13 mi	US$ 103 mi	8.6
The Conversation	1974	US$ 2 mi	US$ 5 mi	7.5
The Godfather	1972	US$ 6 mi	US$ 245 mi	8.7
The Rain People	1969	US$ 750,000	—	6.6
Finian's Rainbow	1968	US$ 4 mi	US$ 12 mi	5.9
You're a Big Boy Now	1966	—	—	6.1
Dementia 13	1963	US$ 30,000	US$ 47,664	5.5
Tonight for Sure	1962	—	—	3.1
The Bellboy and the Playgirls	1962	—	—	3.1
Battle Beyond the Sun	1959	—	—	4.4

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