Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan) is an Italian American film director, screenwriter, vintner, magazine publisher, and hotelier, most far-famed for directing a extremely regarded Godfather trilogy.

Career: 1960 to 1978
Coppola exposed theatre at Hofstra University prior to studying film at UCLA and while there, he processed many short films, including a bit of easy core pornography films. In the early Sixties, he began his agent career making online-budget films using Roger Corman and writing screenplays. His foremost notable motion picture was bring Corman, a on line-budget Dementia 13 (which is available on streaming).

Best Actress nomination.

Around 1971, Coppola won an Academy Award for his screenplay for Patton. Yet, his title when a movie maker was mass produced as a co-writer & director of The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), which both won a Academy Award for Best Picture — a latter being the foremost sequel to wash sol.

Around between A Godfather & A Godfather A share II, Coppola directed The Conversation, the story of a paranoiac wiretapping & surveillance adept (played by Gene Hackman) who finds himself caught higher inside the imaginable slaying plot. A Conversation was freed to theaters around 1974 & was too nominative for Right Picture, resultant withinside Coppola existence a 2nd of triad directors in Hollywood history to use ii films freed in a equivalent month nominated for Right Picture & competing for the equivalent prize at the Oscar. (A number one director to achieve this eclat was Alfred Hitchcock, with Foreign Correspondent and Rebecca. Rebecca went in to win a 1941 Best Picture Oscar. Within 2001, Steven Soderbergh's films Erin Brockovich and Traffic were both nominated for Right Picture Oscars.) When A Godfather A share II won a Oscar, A Conversation won a 1974 ''Palme d'Or'' at the Cannes Film Festival.

When you took this time period he likewise wrote a screenplay for the critically & commercially stillborn 1974 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby (starring Mia Farrow and Robert Redford), and produced George Lucas's breakthrough film, American Graffiti.

Career: 1979 to present
Charted a profits of The Godfather & its sequel, Coppola placed all about cinematography Apocalypse Now, an ambitious version of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, with a setting changed from either compound Africa to the Vietnam War. Prior to setting remove to produce the film, Coppola attend his wise man Roger Corman for advice just about shooting in the Phillipines, since Corman himself was acquainted shooting a film in this front yard. It was said that wholly Corman well-advised Coppola was "Don't go". a creation of the film was a disaster from either the run, existence beset by many problems, including typhoons, nervous breakdowns, Martin Sheen's heart attack, and Marlon Brando's bloated appearance (which Coppola attempted to hide by shooting him in a shadows), of which the actor was too unwary. It was delayed then typically it was nicknamed Apocalypse Anytime. A film was equally lauded & despised by critics once it eventually appeared around 1979, and a numbers about bankrupted Coppola's nascent studio American Zoetrope. A 1991 documentary film ''Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse'', directed by Eleanor Coppola (Francis's wife), Fax Bahr, and George Hickenlooper, chronicles the difficulties the crew went through making Apocalypse Now, and features behind the scenes footage filmed by Eleanor.

) that he returned to directing. Alas, the film was the immense failure, although it developed a cult ensuing within late years.

Around 1986 Coppola, with George Lucas, directed the Michael Jackson film for Disney theme parks, Captain Eo, which at a period was the virtually all expensive film by the microscopic ever mass produced.

Around 1990 he completed the Godfather series sustaining The Godfather Part III which, while non equally critically acclaimed when the foremost both picture show, was however a pack professional profits. Numerous guess that a film was marred per presence of Coppola's inexperient & clearly pinching girl Sofia, who stumbled her way across the role abandoned by Winona Ryder just as motion-picture photography began. Her performance was subjected to universal critical ridicule, however around down the road years she saved herself as a director & film writer by having The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation. Boy Roman Coppolthe is as well a film producer, directing his number 1 feature, CQ.

Coppola's father Carmine was a noted composer & musician, & wrote a scores of several of his boy's films, & his nephew Nicolas Cage is an acclaimed actor.

Inside recent years, Coppola by having his personal has extended his talents to winemaking in California's Napa Valley at the Niebaum-Coppola Winery, producing a line of specialty pastas & spaghetti sauce, & opening resorts around Guatemala and Belize, inspired by his accommodation in the Philippines during the making of Apocalypse At present, sustaining interior decoration supervised by Eleanor Coppola.

Inside 1997, Coppola founded Zoetrope All-Story, a flashy literary magazine that publishes short stories. A magazine has published fiction by T.C. Boyle and Amy Bloom and essays by David Mamet, Steven Spielberg, and Salman Rushdie. Since its innovation, a magazine has grown inside reputation to get one of a premier Western journals of literary fiction. Coppola serves when introduction editor & publisher of Tons-Story.

A director is depending in a San Francisco Bay Locality in which he co-owns the Rubicon eating place alongside fellow San Franciscan Robin Williams & Robert DeNiro.

Selected filmography
Kinsey (2005, co-producer) The Rainmaker (1997, director) Jack (1996, director) The Secret Garden (1993, executive producer) ''Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992, director) The Godfather: Part III (1990, director) Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988, director) Gardens of Stone (1987, director) Peggy Sue Got Married (1986, director) Captain Eo (1986, director) The Cotton Club (1984, director) The Outsiders (1983, director) Rumble Fish (1983, director) One from the Heart (1982, director) Apocalypse Now (1979, director) The Godfather, Part II (1974, director) The Conversation (1974, director) The Godfather (1972, director) The Rain People (1969, director) Finian's Rainbow (1968, director) You're a Big Boy Now (1966, director) Dementia 13'' (1963, director)

Trivia
He has been granted a title of "duke of Megalopolis" per Spanish writer Javier Marías, claimant to the micronation of the kingdom of Redonda.