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Francis Ford Coppola was born in
1939 in
Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in a
New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father,
Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician. His mother,
Italia Coppola (née Pennino), had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated with a degree in drama from
Hofstra University, and did graduate work at
UCLA in filmmaking. He was training as assistant with filmmaker
Roger Corman, working in such capacities as sound-man, dialogue director, associate producer and, eventually, director of
Dementia 13 (
1963), Coppola's first feature film. During the next four years, Coppola was involved in a variety of script collaborations, including writing an
adaptation of "
This Property is Condemned" by
Tennessee Williams (with
Fred Coe and Edith
Sommer), and screenplays for
Is Paris Burning? (1966) and
Patton (
1970), the film for which Coppola won a
Best Original Screenplay Academy Award. In 1966, Coppola's 2nd film brought him critical acclaim and a
Master of Fine Arts degree. In
1969, Coppola and
George Lucas established
American Zoetrope, an independent film production company based in
San Francisco.
The company's first project was
THX 1138 (
1971), produced by Coppola and directed by
Lucas. Coppola also produced the second film that Lucas directed,
American Graffiti (
1973), in 1973. This movie got five Academy Award nominations, including one for
Best Picture. In 1971, Coppola's film
The Godfather (
1972) became one of the highest-grossing movies in history and brought him an
Oscar for writing the screenplay with
Mario Puzo The film was a Best Picture
Academy Award-winner, and also brought Coppola a
Best Director Oscar nomination.
Following his work on the screenplay for
The Great Gatsby (
1974), Coppola's next film was
The Conversation (1974), which was honored with the
Golden Palm Award at the
Cannes Film Festival, and brought Coppola Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay
Oscar nominations. Also released that year,
The Godfather: Part II (1974), rivaled the success of The Godfather (1972), and won six
Academy Awards, bringing Coppola
Oscars as a producer, director and writer. Coppola then began work on his most ambitious film,
Apocalypse Now (
1979), a
Vietnam War epic that was inspired by
Joseph Conrad's
Heart of Darkness (
1993).
Released in 1979, the acclaimed film won a Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and two Academy Awards. Also that year, Coppola executive produced the hit
The Black Stallion (1979). With George Lucas, Coppola executive produced
Kagemusha (
1980), directed by
Akira Kurosawa, and
Mishima: A
Life in Four
Chapters (
1985), directed by
Paul Schrader and based on the life and writings of
Yukio Mishima. Coppola also executive produced such films as
The Escape Artist (
1982),
Hammett (1982)
The Black Stallion Returns (
1983),
Barfly (
1987),
Wind (
1992),
The Secret Garden (1993), etc.
He helped to make a star of his nephew,
Nicolas Cage.
Personal tragedy hit in
1986 when his son Gio died in a boating accident. Francis Ford Coppola is one of
America's most erratic, energetic and controversial filmmakers.
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- published: 05 Nov 2014
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