Francis Ford Coppola Biography

One of the most influential movie makers of our time Francis Ford Coppola is a true renaissance man. Not only a master storyteller but also an astute businessman Coppola’s is one of the most innovative minds of our time. As the maverick founder of his company American Zoetrope he personally initiated and nourished the careers of talents such as George Lucas Carroll Ballard John Milius his daughter Sofia Coppola and actors including Al Pacino Robert DeNiro Harrison Ford Richard Dreyfus and Diane Keaton. Zoetrope-produced films have received sixteen Academy Awards and seventy nominations. As a writer director producer and technological pioneer Francis Coppola has created a body of work that has helped to shape contemporary American cinema.
Making films since he was a young boy Coppola quickly rose to prominence as a screenwriter. Each decade of Coppola’s 40 year filmmaking career is marked with innovation and success. In the 1970s Coppola wrote Patton which won 7 Academy Awards directed the career-changing smash-hit The GodFather and Wrote Directed and Produced Apocalypse Now influencing generations of directors across the globe. The 1980s was marked by technical innovation for Coppola and he incorporated a range of revolutionary techniques and technologies into his filmmaking including “previsualization electronic editing and experimentation with high definition. The 1990s was again filled incredible box office and critical success. In this decade Coppola produced to name a few The Godfather Part III winner of 7 Oscar nominations and Bar Stoker’s Dracula winner of 3. After a ten year hiatus from Coppola began filmmaking again in 2007. Throughout the rest of the 2000s he has acted as a producer on a string of successful films.

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