Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola is a screenwriter, producer, and director from the United States. He has five Academy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Palmes d'Or, and a British Academy Film Award. He is regarded as one of the primary players of the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Francis Ford Coppola, along with directors like Martin Scorsese, was responsible for the height of the mafia crime-drama genre. Coppola accomplished this by providing the media may be the finest pair of mafia films ever created. The Godfather and The Godfather Part II are both widely regarded as two of the finest films ever made, with the latter particularly noteworthy for achieving the uncommon feat of outperforming its celebrated predecessor. Marlon Brando provided one of his most powerful performances in those films, and Al Pacino's career was launched.

The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, both released in 1983, are among his most well-known pictures, as are The Cotton Club (1984) and The Godfather Part III (1990), all crime dramas, and Bram Stoker's Dracula, based on the novel of the same name. His sister Talia Shire is an actress, his daughter Sofia and granddaughter Gia is directors, his son Roman is a screenwriter, and his nephews Jason Schwartzman and Nicolas Cage are actors, among others. Coppola lives in Napa, California, and has been a winemaker since the 2010s, owning a family-branded vineyard as well as his own.

Born: April 7, 1939, Detroit, Michigan, United States