Coppola resides in Napa, California, and since the 2010s has been a vintner and owns a family-brand as well as a winery of his own. ==Early life== Coppola was born in Detroit, Michigan, to father Carmine Coppola (1910–1991), a flutist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and mother Italia Coppola (née Pennino; 1912–2004).
Francis Ford Coppola (; ; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter.
Victor Fleming was the first in 1939 with Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz; Alfred Hitchcock repeated the feat the next year with Foreign Correspondent and Rebecca.
The winery displays several of Coppola's Oscars along with memorabilia from his movies, including Vito Corleone's desk from The Godfather and a restored 1948 Tucker Sedan as used in The Man and His Dream. In October 2018, Coppola and family purchased the Vista Hills winery in Dayton, Oregon, and in 2019 renamed it Domaine de Broglie. ====Resorts==== Included in the Francis Ford Coppola Presents lifestyle brand are several hotels and resorts around the world.
He entered Hofstra College in 1955 with a major in theater arts.
He was a central figure in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and is widely considered to be one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.
While a graduate student, one of his teachers was Dorothy Arzner, whose encouragement Coppola later acknowledged as pivotal to his film career. ==Career== ===1960s=== After earning his theater arts degree from Hofstra in 1960, Coppola enrolled in UCLA Film School.
He later used Morrison's song "The End" in Apocalypse Now. In the early 1960s, Coppola was completely broke, forced to survive on $10 a week.
Both the shelved film and The Peeper featured Marli Renfro, so the producers decided to pay Coppola $500 to combine the scenes of his short film with those of Jerry Schafer's erotic western, creating a completely new film, Tonight for Sure, a softcore comedy released in 1962. Another production company, Screen Rite Pictures, hired Coppola to do a similar job: re-cut a German film titled , directed by Fritz Umgelter.
Although the filmmaker has always stated that he filmed only “15 minutes of new scenes,” the extra material represents about 50 minutes of a 93-minute feature film. Some years later, Coppola was hired as an assistant by Roger Corman and his first job for Corman was to dub and re-edit a Russian science fiction film, Nebo zovyot, which he turned into a sex-and-violence monster movie entitled Battle Beyond the Sun, released in 1962.
Impressed by Coppola's perseverance and dedication, Corman hired him as dialogue director on Tower of London (1962), sound man for The Young Racers (1963) and associate producer and one of the many uncredited directors of The Terror (1963). While on location in Ireland for The Young Racers in 1963, Corman, ever alert for an opportunity to produce a decent movie on a shoestring budget, persuaded Coppola to make a low-budget horror movie with funds left over from the movie.
It was on the sets of Dementia 13 that he met his future wife Eleanor Jessie Neil. In 1965, Coppola won the annual Samuel Goldwyn Award for the best screenplay (Pilma, Pilma) written by a UCLA student.
However, with fame still eluding him and partly out of desperation, Coppola bought the rights to the David Benedictus novel You're a Big Boy Now and fused it with a story idea of his own, resulting in You're a Big Boy Now (1966), which was his UCLA thesis project and earned Coppola his Master of Fine Arts Degree from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 1967.
In his 1968 book The American Cinema, Andrew Sarris wrote, "[Coppola] is probably the first reasonably talented and sensibly adaptable directorial talent to emerge from a university curriculum in film-making...
His accolades include five Academy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Palmes d'Or, and a British Academy Film Award. After directing The Rain People in 1969, Coppola co-wrote Patton (1970), earning the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay along with Edmund H.
The film introduced to him George Lucas, who became his lifelong friend as well as production assistant in his next film The Rain People in 1969.
The film won the Golden Shell at the 1969 San Sebastian Film Festival. In 1969, Coppola took it upon himself to subvert the studio system which he felt had stifled his visions, intending to produce mainstream pictures to finance off-beat projects and give first-time directors their chance to direct.
However, in 1969, with equipment flowing in and no mansion found yet, the first home for Zoetrope Studio became a warehouse in San Francisco on Folsom Street.
He was a central figure in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and is widely considered to be one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.
[He] may be heard from more decisively in the future." ===1970s=== Coppola was at the forefront of a group of filmmakers known as the "New Hollywood" that emerged in the early 1970s with ideas that challenged conventional film-making.
The group included Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman, and George Lucas. ====Patton (1970)==== Coppola co-wrote the script for Patton in 1970 along with Edmund H.
Rubicon closed in August 2008. ====Literary publications==== Coppola bought out the San Francisco-based magazine City in the 1970s, with the intent of publishing a "service magazine" that informed readers about sights and activities in selected cities.
He had planned to direct this movie, a story about the aftermath and reconstruction of New York City after a mega-disaster, but after the city was hit by the real-life disaster of the September 11 attacks, the project was seen as being too sensitive. ==Commercial ventures== ===American Zoetrope=== In 1971, Coppola produced George Lucas' first film, THX 1138.
Over the years, this opening monologue has become an iconic scene and has spawned parodies in numerous films, political cartoons and television shows. ====The Godfather (1972)==== The release of The Godfather in 1972 was a milestone in cinema.
The Godfather won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay (shared with Mario Puzo). The Godfather Part II, which followed in 1974, became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The movie was a critical success and Coppola won his first Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. ====The Great Gatsby (1974)==== During the filming of The Conversation, Coppola wrote the screenplay for The Great Gatsby.
The movie was released in 1974 and went on to receive tremendous critical acclaim, with many deeming it superior to its predecessor.
Sagan had died a week earlier and Coppola claimed that Sagan's novel Contact was based on a story the pair had developed for a television special back in 1975 titled First Contact.
Filmmaker members can workshop a wide range of film arts, including music, graphics, design and film and video. ===Inglenook Winery=== Coppola, with his family, expanded his business ventures to include winemaking in California's Napa Valley, when in 1975 he purchased the former home and adjoining vineyard of Gustave Niebaum in Rutherford, California using proceeds from the first movie in the Godfather trilogy.
Since Coppola, two other directors have done the same: Herbert Ross in 1977 with The Goodbye Girl and The Turning Point and Steven Soderbergh in 2000 with Erin Brockovich and Traffic.
His winery produced its first vintage in 1977 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. After purchasing the property, he produced wine under the Niebaum-Coppola label.
After filming Apocalypse Now, Coppola famously stated, "We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment and little by little, we went insane." The film was overwhelmingly lauded by critics when it finally appeared in 1979 and was selected for the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, winning the Palme d'Or along with The Tin Drum, directed by Volker Schlöndorff.
The film won the Palme d'Or, making Coppola one of only eight filmmakers to have won that award twice. His best-known films released since the start of the 1980s are the dramas The Outsiders and Rumble Fish (both 1983), the crime dramas The Cotton Club (1984) and The Godfather Part III (1990), and the romantic-horror film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) based on the novel of the same name.
This would be more than the estimated production budget of $40 million, but a disappointment compared with previous films adapted from Grisham novels. ====Pinocchio dispute with Warner Bros.==== In the late 1980s, Coppola started considering concepts for a motion picture based upon the 19th-century novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, and in 1991 Coppola and Warner Bros.
Senate. Coppola appeared in a commercial for Suntory Reserve in 1980 alongside Akira Kurosawa; the commercial was filmed while Kurosawa was making Kagemusha, which Coppola produced. ==Honors== He featured at No.
Although Coppola was not credited for his effort, according to one source, "by the time the final version was released in 1982, only 30 percent of Wenders' footage remained and the rest was completely reshot by Coppola, whose mere 'executive producer' credit is just a technicality". ====The Outsiders (1983)==== In 1983, he directed The Outsiders, a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by S.
The film won the Palme d'Or, making Coppola one of only eight filmmakers to have won that award twice. His best-known films released since the start of the 1980s are the dramas The Outsiders and Rumble Fish (both 1983), the crime dramas The Cotton Club (1984) and The Godfather Part III (1990), and the romantic-horror film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) based on the novel of the same name.
His musical fantasy One from the Heart, although pioneering the use of video-editing techniques that are standard practice in the film industry today, ended with a disastrous box-office gross of US$636,796 against a US$26 million budget, far from enough to recoup the costs incurred in the production of the movie, and he was forced to sell his 23-acre Zoetrope Studio in 1983.
Although Coppola was not credited for his effort, according to one source, "by the time the final version was released in 1982, only 30 percent of Wenders' footage remained and the rest was completely reshot by Coppola, whose mere 'executive producer' credit is just a technicality". ====The Outsiders (1983)==== In 1983, he directed The Outsiders, a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by S.
The film bombed at the box office, earning a meager $2.5 million against a budget of $10 million and once again aggravated Coppola's financial troubles. ====The Cotton Club (1984)==== In 1984 Coppola directed the Robert Evans-produced The Cotton Club.
The television program was never produced, but in 1985, Simon & Schuster published Sagan's Contact and Warner Bros.
It was also unfavorably compared with the 1988 film Big, in which Tom Hanks also played a child in a grown man's body.
Two awards came its way: Martin Landau won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and Dean Tavoularis took BAFTA's honors for Best Production Design. ====New York Stories (1989)==== In 1989, Coppola teamed up with fellow Oscar-winning directors Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen for an anthology film called New York Stories.
Zoetrope Studios finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1990, after which its name was changed to American Zoetrope. ====Hammett (1982)==== Following One from the Heart's failure, Coppola co-directed Hammett along with Wim Wenders in the same year.
Co-written with his daughter Sofia, the film is a mystifying embarrassment; it's by far the director's worst work yet." ===1990s=== ====The Godfather Part III (1990)==== In 1990, he released the third and final chapter of The Godfather series: The Godfather Part III.
When Williams was offered the screenplay for Jack, he said he would only agree to do it if Coppola agreed to sign on as director. ====The Rainmaker (1997)==== The last film Coppola directed in the 1990s, The Rainmaker was based on the 1995 novel of the same name by John Grisham.
It was delayed so often it was nicknamed Apocalypse When? The 1991 documentary film A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, directed by Francis's wife, Eleanor Coppola, who was present through the production, Fax Bahr, and George Hickenlooper, chronicles the difficulties the crew went through making Apocalypse Now and features behind-the-scenes footage filmed by Eleanor.
This would be more than the estimated production budget of $40 million, but a disappointment compared with previous films adapted from Grisham novels. ====Pinocchio dispute with Warner Bros.==== In the late 1980s, Coppola started considering concepts for a motion picture based upon the 19th-century novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, and in 1991 Coppola and Warner Bros.
The following Coppola films were also nominated for the list: American Graffiti (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. In 1992, he was awarded a Golden Lion – Honorary Award at the Venice Film Festival.
Coppola said the film is the version he and Puzo had originally envisioned, and it "vindicates" its status among the trilogy and his daughter Sofia's performance. ====Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)==== In 1992, Coppola directed and produced Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The following Coppola films were also nominated for the list: American Graffiti (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. In 1992, he was awarded a Golden Lion – Honorary Award at the Venice Film Festival.
These discussions led to negotiations for Coppola to both produce and direct the Pinocchio project for Warner as well as The Secret Garden (which was made in 1993 and produced by American Zoetrope, but directed by Agnieszka Holland) and Hoover, which never came to fruition.
For 14 years from 1994, Coppola co-owned the Rubicon restaurant in San Francisco along with Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.
as well as the Inkpot Award at the annual San Diego Comic Con. In 1994, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
When Williams was offered the screenplay for Jack, he said he would only agree to do it if Coppola agreed to sign on as director. ====The Rainmaker (1997)==== The last film Coppola directed in the 1990s, The Rainmaker was based on the 1995 novel of the same name by John Grisham.
When he purchased the former Inglenook Winery chateau in 1995, he renamed the winery Rubicon Estate Winery in 2006.
The film won Academy Awards for Costume Design, Makeup and Sound Editing. ====Jack (1996)==== Coppola's next project was Jack, which was released on August 9, 1996.
This is the largest civil financial verdict ever against a Hollywood studio. ====Contact dispute with Carl Sagan/Warner Bros.==== During the filming of Contact on December 28, 1996, Coppola filed a lawsuit against Carl Sagan and Warner Bros.
Andy García has since claimed the film's script was nearly produced. Coppola was the jury president at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival and he also took part as a special guest at the 17th Midnight Sun Film Festival in Sodankylä, Finland, and the 46th International Thessaloniki Film Festival in Thessaloniki, Greece. Over the years, Coppola has given contributions to several candidates of the Democratic Party, including Mike Thompson and Nancy Pelosi for the U.S.
It has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry was ranked third, behind Citizen Kane and Casablanca on the initial AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list by the American Film Institute in 1997.
The magazine was unsuccessful, and he lost $1.5 million on this venture. In 1997, Coppola founded All-Story, a literary magazine devoted to short stories and design.
The parties deferred this issue and finally a settlement was reached in 1998, when the jurors in the resultant court case awarded Coppola $20 million as compensation for losing the Pinocchio film project.
Even though Sagan was shown to have violated some of the terms of the agreement, the case was dismissed in February 1998 because Coppola had waited too long to file suit. ====Supernova re-edit==== In August 1999, Coppola was brought in by MGM to supervise another re-editing of the film Supernova, costing $1 million at his American Zoetrope facility in Northern California.
His Golden Plate was presented by Awards Council member George Lucas. In 1998, the Directors Guild of America honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In the 2002 poll of the Sight & Sound publication, Coppola ranked No.
Even though Sagan was shown to have violated some of the terms of the agreement, the case was dismissed in February 1998 because Coppola had waited too long to file suit. ====Supernova re-edit==== In August 1999, Coppola was brought in by MGM to supervise another re-editing of the film Supernova, costing $1 million at his American Zoetrope facility in Northern California.
By October 1999, MGM decided to sell the film.
Since Coppola, two other directors have done the same: Herbert Ross in 1977 with The Goodbye Girl and The Turning Point and Steven Soderbergh in 2000 with Erin Brockovich and Traffic.
The film was eventually released on January 17, 2000, almost two years later than planned. ===2000s=== ====Youth Without Youth (2007)==== After a 10-year hiatus, Coppola returned to directing with Youth Without Youth in 2007, based on the novella of the same name by Romanian author Mircea Eliade.
Launched in June 2000, the culmination of more than four years work, it brings together departments for screenwriters, directors, producers and other filmmaker artists, plus new departments for other creative endeavors.
In the director's commentary on the DVD edition of the film (released in 2002), Coppola states that this film was the first major motion picture to use "Part II" in its title.
It was also featured on Sight & Sound's list of the ten greatest films of all time in 2002, ranking at No.
His Golden Plate was presented by Awards Council member George Lucas. In 1998, the Directors Guild of America honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In the 2002 poll of the Sight & Sound publication, Coppola ranked No.
8 on the list of the top ten film directors of modern time. He was honored with a special 50th anniversary award for his impressive career at the 2002 San Sebastián International Film Festival. The same year he received a gala tribute from Film Society of Lincoln Center. In 2003, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Denver Film Festival. He was given an honorary award at the 2007 Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. In 2007, Total Film magazine ranked Coppola at No.
Its grapes are now entirely organically grown. ===Uptown Theater=== George Altamura, a real estate developer announced in 2003 that he had partnered with several people, including Coppola, in a project to restore the Uptown Theater in downtown Napa, California in order to create a live entertainment venue. ===Francis Ford Coppola Presents=== Coppola is also the owner of Francis Ford Coppola Presents, a lifestyle brand under which he markets goods from companies he owns or controls.
8 on the list of the top ten film directors of modern time. He was honored with a special 50th anniversary award for his impressive career at the 2002 San Sebastián International Film Festival. The same year he received a gala tribute from Film Society of Lincoln Center. In 2003, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Denver Film Festival. He was given an honorary award at the 2007 Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. In 2007, Total Film magazine ranked Coppola at No.
When he purchased the former Inglenook Winery chateau in 1995, he renamed the winery Rubicon Estate Winery in 2006.
It was moved up to second when the list was published again in 2007.
The film was eventually released on January 17, 2000, almost two years later than planned. ===2000s=== ====Youth Without Youth (2007)==== After a 10-year hiatus, Coppola returned to directing with Youth Without Youth in 2007, based on the novella of the same name by Romanian author Mircea Eliade.
8 on the list of the top ten film directors of modern time. He was honored with a special 50th anniversary award for his impressive career at the 2002 San Sebastián International Film Festival. The same year he received a gala tribute from Film Society of Lincoln Center. In 2003, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Denver Film Festival. He was given an honorary award at the 2007 Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. In 2007, Total Film magazine ranked Coppola at No.
Rubicon closed in August 2008. ====Literary publications==== Coppola bought out the San Francisco-based magazine City in the 1970s, with the intent of publishing a "service magazine" that informed readers about sights and activities in selected cities.
As a result, Coppola announced his plans to produce his own films in order to avoid the marketing input that goes into most films that results in trying to make films appeal to too wide an audience. ====Tetro (2009)==== In 2009, Coppola released Tetro.
Coppola resides in Napa, California, and since the 2010s has been a vintner and owns a family-brand as well as a winery of his own. ==Early life== Coppola was born in Detroit, Michigan, to father Carmine Coppola (1910–1991), a flutist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and mother Italia Coppola (née Pennino; 1912–2004).
5 on its "100 Greatest Film Directors Ever" list. In 2010, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided to honor him with the Irving G.
(A film was eventually made by Clint Eastwood in 2011 titled J.
It has made $2,636,774 worldwide, against a budget of $5,000,000. ===2010s=== ====Twixt (2011)==== Twixt, starring Val Kilmer, Elle Fanning, Joanne Whalley, and Bruce Dern and narrated by Tom Waits, was released to film festivals in late 2011 and was released theatrically in early 2012.
On April 11, 2011, Coppola acquired the Inglenook trademark paying more, he said, for the trademark than he did for the entire estate and announced that the estate would once again be known by its historic original name, Inglenook.
It has made $2,636,774 worldwide, against a budget of $5,000,000. ===2010s=== ====Twixt (2011)==== Twixt, starring Val Kilmer, Elle Fanning, Joanne Whalley, and Bruce Dern and narrated by Tom Waits, was released to film festivals in late 2011 and was released theatrically in early 2012.
The honor was bestowed on him on November 13, along with honorary Oscars to Jean-Luc Godard, Kevin Brownlow and Eli Wallach. On October 16, 2013, he was awarded a Praemium Imperiale in the theater/film category. Coppola serves as the "Honorary Consul H.
Francis Ford Coppola" in San Francisco for Belize. On October 1, 2014, Coppola was inducted into the California Hall of Fame by Governor Edmund G.
It received critical acclaim in France but mostly negative reviews elsewhere. ====Distant Vision (2015)==== In 2015, Coppola stated "...That's why I ended my career: I decided I didn't want to make what you could call 'factory movies' anymore.
Proof of concepts were tested before limited audiences at Oklahoma City Community College in June 2015 and UCLA School of Theater in July 2016. ===2020s=== ====Megalopolis (TBA)==== In April 2019, Coppola announced that he plans to direct Megalopolis, which he had been developing for many years prior.
Proof of concepts were tested before limited audiences at Oklahoma City Community College in June 2015 and UCLA School of Theater in July 2016. ===2020s=== ====Megalopolis (TBA)==== In April 2019, Coppola announced that he plans to direct Megalopolis, which he had been developing for many years prior.
The winery displays several of Coppola's Oscars along with memorabilia from his movies, including Vito Corleone's desk from The Godfather and a restored 1948 Tucker Sedan as used in The Man and His Dream. In October 2018, Coppola and family purchased the Vista Hills winery in Dayton, Oregon, and in 2019 renamed it Domaine de Broglie. ====Resorts==== Included in the Francis Ford Coppola Presents lifestyle brand are several hotels and resorts around the world.
Proof of concepts were tested before limited audiences at Oklahoma City Community College in June 2015 and UCLA School of Theater in July 2016. ===2020s=== ====Megalopolis (TBA)==== In April 2019, Coppola announced that he plans to direct Megalopolis, which he had been developing for many years prior.
The winery displays several of Coppola's Oscars along with memorabilia from his movies, including Vito Corleone's desk from The Godfather and a restored 1948 Tucker Sedan as used in The Man and His Dream. In October 2018, Coppola and family purchased the Vista Hills winery in Dayton, Oregon, and in 2019 renamed it Domaine de Broglie. ====Resorts==== Included in the Francis Ford Coppola Presents lifestyle brand are several hotels and resorts around the world.
The film failed to win any of these awards, the only film in the trilogy to do so. In September 2020, for the film's 30th anniversary, it was announced that a new cut of the film titled Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone would have a limited theatrical release in December 2020 followed by digital and Blu-ray.
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