"to be nominated in that category, and the third woman overall, after Lina Wertmüller and Jane Campion. In 2010, Kathryn Bigelow became the fourth woman to be nominated, and the first to win the award. Coppola, however, remains the youngest woman to be nominated in the Best Director category. Coppola's win for Best Original Screenplay (along with her cousin Nicolas Cage's 1996 win for Best Actor) resulted in her family's becoming the second three-generation Oscar-winning family, her grandfather Carmine Coppola and her father Francis Ford Coppola having previously won Oscars. The first family to achieve this feat was the Huston"
"Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola (; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer. He was a central figure in the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. After directing ""The Rain People"" (1969), he co-wrote the 1970 film ""Patton"", earning the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay along with co-writer Edmund H. North. His directorial prominence was cemented with the release in 1972 of ""The Godfather"", a film which revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre, earning praise from both critics and the public before winning three Academy Awards—including his second Oscar (Best Adapted Screenplay,"
"I plan to begin a process of making one personal movie after another and if something leads me back to look at that, which I'm sure it might, I'll see what makes sense to me."" Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola (; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer. He was a central figure in the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. After directing ""The Rain People"" (1969), he co-wrote the 1970 film ""Patton"", earning the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay along with co-writer Edmund H. North. His directorial prominence was cemented with"
"Roman Coppola Roman François Coppola (born April 22, 1965) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and entrepreneur. With the 2012 film ""Moonrise Kingdom"", he and co-writer Wes Anderson were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2016, his television series ""Mozart in the Jungle"" won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Comedy. Coppola serves as president of the San Francisco-based film company American Zoetrope. He is also founder and owner of The Directors Bureau, a commercial and music video production company. Roman Coppola is the son of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola (née Neil) and"
"director Francis Ford Coppola. He was born in the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, while his father was in Paris helping write the screenplay of ""Is Paris Burning?"" As a boy, he had minor, uncredited roles in both ""The Godfather"" and ""The Godfather Part II"". He attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Coppola began his directing career by overseeing in-camera visual effects and second unit direction for ""Bram Stoker’s Dracula"", which garnered a BAFTA Award nomination for Visual Effects. He has continued to do second unit direction throughout his career, including Francis Ford Coppola's ""Jack"", ""The Rainmaker"", ""Youth"
"beach bags. The bags are handmade in California and known for their signature multicolor designs. Roman Coppola Roman François Coppola (born April 22, 1965) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and entrepreneur. With the 2012 film ""Moonrise Kingdom"", he and co-writer Wes Anderson were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2016, his television series ""Mozart in the Jungle"" won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Comedy. Coppola serves as president of the San Francisco-based film company American Zoetrope. He is also founder and owner of The Directors Bureau, a commercial and music video"
"Gian-Carlo Coppola Gian-Carlo Coppola (September 17, 1963 – May 26, 1986) was an American film producer. Coppola was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola (née Neil) and famed film director Francis Ford Coppola. As the eldest Coppola sibling, he was the older brother to Roman and Sofia. Gian-Carlo was close friends and once a couple with Tracy Reiner, daughter of director Penny Marshall. Gian-Carlo began his professional filmmaking career at the age of 16, working closely with his father. Like his brother and sister, Gian-Carlo—known to his family and friends as Gio—often featured in"
"(1984), the crime-drama ""The Godfather Part III"" (1990), and the horror film ""Bram Stoker's Dracula"" (1992). Coppola was born in Detroit, Michigan, to father Carmine Coppola (1910–1991), a flautist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and mother Italia Coppola (née Pennino; 1912–2004). Coppola is the middle of three children: his older brother was August Coppola, his younger sister is actress Talia Shire. Born into a family of Italian immigrant ancestry, his paternal grandparents came to the United States from Bernalda, Basilicata. His maternal grandfather, popular Italian composer Francesco Pennino, immigrated from Naples, Italy. Coppola received his middle name in honor of"
"Brown to serve on the California Arts Council. Christopher Coppola Christopher V. Coppola (born January 25, 1962) is a film director and producer. Coppola was born in Los Angeles County, California. His father, the late August Coppola, was a professor of literature, while his mother, Joy Vogelsang, is a dancer and choreographer; the two divorced in 1976. His mother suffered from chronic depression. Coppola's mother is of German descent and his father is Italian American, with his paternal grandparents being Carmine Coppola and Italia Pennino, an actress. Through his father, Coppola is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola and"
"Christopher Coppola Christopher V. Coppola (born January 25, 1962) is a film director and producer. Coppola was born in Los Angeles County, California. His father, the late August Coppola, was a professor of literature, while his mother, Joy Vogelsang, is a dancer and choreographer; the two divorced in 1976. His mother suffered from chronic depression. Coppola's mother is of German descent and his father is Italian American, with his paternal grandparents being Carmine Coppola and Italia Pennino, an actress. Through his father, Coppola is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, as well as the cousin"
"played the hobo Vladimir in a 2005 off-Broadway production of ""Waiting for Godot"" and an aging real estate salesman, Aaronow, in a 2000 production of ""Glengarry Glen Ross"" at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton. Coppola died February 5, 2012 from an aneurysm, and was predeceased by his wife, Helen. He is survived by his children, Jason Coppola of Brooklyn and Samantha Coppola of Bogota, and three grandchildren. Sam Coppola Sam Coppola (July 31, 1932 – February 5, 2012) was an American actor. He appeared in almost 70 films, beginning in 1968, but may be best remembered for his role as"
"uses of HDTV. Four films produced by American Zoetrope are included in the American Film Institute's Top 100 Films. American Zoetrope-produced films have received 15 Academy Awards and 68 nominations. Initially located in a warehouse on Folsom Street, the company's headquarters have since 1972 been in the historic Sentinel Building, at 916 Kearny Street in San Francisco's North Beach neighbourhood. Coppola named the studio after a zoetrope he was given in the late 1960s by the filmmaker and collector of early film devices, Mogens Skot-Hansen. ""Zoetrope"" is also the name by which Coppola's quarterly fiction magazine, """", is often known."
"Gia Coppola Gian-Carla ""Gia"" Coppola (born January 1, 1987) is an American film director, screenwriter, and actress. She is a granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola, the daughter of Gian-Carlo Coppola and the niece of Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola. Coppola is the daughter of Gian-Carlo Coppola and Jacqui de la Fontaine. Her father died in a speed boating accident while her mother was pregnant with her. The credits of the 1996 film ""Jack"", directed by her grandfather Francis Ford Coppola, include the dedication ""for gia 'When you see a shooting star...'"" (with her name stylized in lower case). She was"
"memorabilia from his films. The neighborhood is well known for its cafes and its writers. Coppola wrote much of the screenplay for ""The Godfather"" in the nearby Caffe Trieste and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books is located across the street from the Sentinel Building. American Zoetrope American Zoetrope (also known as Zoetrope Studios from 1979 until 1990) is a privately run American film studio, centered in San Francisco and founded by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. Opened on December 12, 1969, the studio has produced not only the films of Coppola (including ""Apocalypse Now"", ""Bram Stoker's Dracula"" and ""Tetro""),"
"are now entirely organically grown. George Altamura, a real estate developer announced in 2003 that he had partnered with several people, including Francis Ford Coppola, in a project to restore the Uptown Theater in downtown Napa, California in order to create a live entertainment venue. Coppola is also the owner of Francis Ford Coppola Presents, a lifestyle brand under which he markets goods from companies he owns or controls. It includes films and videos, resorts, cafes, a literary magazine, a line of pastas and pasta sauces called Mammarella Foods and a winery. The Francis Ford Coppola Winery near Geyserville, California,"
"for members only. 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 endeavours. Filmmaker members can workshop a wide range of film arts, including music, graphics, design and film and video. 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. His winery produced its first vintage"
"Sam Coppola Sam Coppola (July 31, 1932 – February 5, 2012) was an American actor. He appeared in almost 70 films, beginning in 1968, but may be best remembered for his role as Dan Fusco, owner of the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, hardware and paint store, in ""Saturday Night Fever"", who gave John Travolta's character sage but salty advice in the classic 1977 film. Later in his career, Coppola made a brief but memorable appearance on ""The Sopranos"" as the idiosyncratic family therapist of Jennifer Melfi. Coppola was a cop in ""Serpico"" (1973), starring Al Pacino, and a detective in ""Fatal"
"American Zoetrope American Zoetrope (also known as Zoetrope Studios from 1979 until 1990) is a privately run American film studio, centered in San Francisco and founded by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. Opened on December 12, 1969, the studio has produced not only the films of Coppola (including ""Apocalypse Now"", ""Bram Stoker's Dracula"" and ""Tetro""), but also George Lucas's pre-""Star Wars"" films (""THX 1138"", ""American Graffiti""), as well as many others by ""avant-garde"" directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, Wim Wenders and Godfrey Reggio. American Zoetrope was an early adopter of digital filmmaking, including some of the earliest"
"Trevor Coppola Trevor Coppola is an actor, musician from Santa Monica, California. The films he has acted in include ""Little Blue Pill"", ""The Hunchback"", ""Matilda"", ""The Bank Job"", ""Lucky Numbers"" and ""3:10 to Yuma"" and ""Vikingdom"". As a musician, he is a cellist and classically trained singer. Coppola was born in Santa Monica, California. He graduated from UCLA and holds a degree in English literature. He is a singer and a musician. In the early 1990s he had a part in the television series ""Love & War"". 1995 marked the beginning of his film acting career with a minor role."
"""It's hard to sum it up really. Perhaps that's why people when they get back from this place always say the same thing, Vietnam: You don't know, man! You weren't there!"" In homage to film-maker Francis Ford Coppola and his Vietnam War epic ""Apocalypse Now"", the end credits replaced each crew members first name with the words ""Francis Ford"" (e.g. ""Francis Ford Clarkson"", ""Francis Ford Hammond"", etc.). To assist with production of the special, the BBC partnered itself with Hanuman Films, a production company involved in film and television shoots within south-east Asia, and who had worked before with the"
"work rather than allowing them to have a real childhood. Sofia Coppola Sofia Carmina Coppola (; born May 14, 1971) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and former actress. She is the daughter of director, producer, and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola, and made her film debut as an infant in her father's acclaimed crime drama film, ""The Godfather"" (1972). She later appeared in a supporting role in ""Peggy Sue Got Married"" (1986) and portrayed Mary Corleone, the daughter of Michael Corleone, in """" (1990). The latter film earned her much derision and critical backlash, effectively ending her acting career. Coppola"
"Sofia Coppola Sofia Carmina Coppola (; born May 14, 1971) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and former actress. She is the daughter of director, producer, and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola, and made her film debut as an infant in her father's acclaimed crime drama film, ""The Godfather"" (1972). She later appeared in a supporting role in ""Peggy Sue Got Married"" (1986) and portrayed Mary Corleone, the daughter of Michael Corleone, in """" (1990). The latter film earned her much derision and critical backlash, effectively ending her acting career. Coppola then turned her attention to filmmaking. She made her feature-length"
"Marc Coppola (actor) Marc ""The Cope"" Coppola is an American actor and DJ working for KGB-FM in San Diego, California and WAXQ and WLTW in New York City. Marc's father, August Coppola, was a professor of literature, while his mother, Joy Vogelsang, is a dancer and choreographer; the two divorced in 1976. Coppola's mother was of German and Polish descent, and his father was an Italian American, with his paternal grandparents being Carmine Coppola, a composer and flutist, and Italia Pennino, an actress. Through his father, Coppola is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, the"
"$40 million, making it the 9th highest-grossing film of the year worldwide. The film won Academy Awards for Costume Design, Makeup and Sound Editing. Coppola's next project was ""Jack"", which was released on August 9, 1996. It starred Robin Williams as Jack Powell, a ten-year-old boy whose cells are growing at four times the normal rate, so at the age of ten he looks like a 40-year-old man. With Diane Lane, Brian Kerwin and Bill Cosby, ""Jack"" also featured Jennifer Lopez, Fran Drescher and Michael McKean in supporting roles. Although a moderate box-office success, grossing $58 million domestically on an"
"the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. In 2013, she directed the satirical crime film ""The Bling Ring"", based on the crime ring of the same name. At the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, Coppola became the second woman (and the first American woman) in the festival's history to win the Best Director award, for the drama film ""The Beguiled"". Sofia Coppola was born in New York City, the youngest child and only daughter of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola (née Neil) and director Francis Ford Coppola. Her father is of Italian descent. She was raised on her parents' farm in"
"a cameo in ""The Bling Ring""). In May 2016, ""The New York Times"" reported that Coppola would be making her debut as an opera director. She is currently directing a production of ""La Traviata"" for the Teatro Nazionale in Rome, Italy. Coppola was nominated for three Academy Awards for her film ""Lost in Translation"" (2003), in the categories of Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. She would go on to win for Best Original Screenplay but lost the other two nominations to Peter Jackson's """". Her nomination for Best Director made her the first American woman in history"
"""Project Accessible Hollywood"" or ""PAH"" in New Mexico. In addition to New Mexico, Coppola has taken PAH-FEST across in the US, Germany and Slovenia. Coppola's CRC Productions is also developing and producing content for alternative distribution and interactive platforms. Coppola began filmmaking at an early age and has directed eight feature films and a number of television shows. He premiered his feature film ""Creature of the Sunnyside Up Trailer Park"" at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival. His television show ""Biker Chef"" premiered at the 2004 Oldenburg Film Festival in Germany. In April 2013 Coppola was appointed by Governor Jerry"
"Eleanor Coppola Eleanor Coppola (born May 4, 1936) is an American documentary filmmaker, artist, and writer. She is married to director Francis Ford Coppola. She is most known for her 1991 documentary film """" as well as other documentaries chronicling the films of her husband and children. Coppola currently lives on her family's winery in Napa Valley, California. Eleanor Coppola was born Eleanor Jessie Neil, on May 4, 1936, in Los Angeles, California. Her father was a political cartoonist for the Los Angeles Examiner who died when she was 10 years old. She was raised by her mother, Delphine Neil"
"hits. The increasing indulgence of these young directors did not help. Often, they'd go overschedule, and overbudget, thus bankrupting themselves or the studio. The three most famous examples of this are Coppola's ""Apocalypse Now"" and ""One From The Heart"" and particularly Michael Cimino's ""Heaven's Gate"", which single-handedly bankrupted United Artists. However, ""Apocalypse Now"" eventually made its money back and gained widespread recognition as a masterpiece, winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes. The 1980s and 1990s saw another significant development. The full acceptance of home video by studios opened a vast new business to exploit. Films such as ""Showgirls"", ""The Secret"
"Rutherford, California, a rural area in Napa Valley, and graduated from St. Helena High School in 1989. She later attended Mills College and the California Institute of the Arts. At 15, she interned with Chanel. After dropping out of college, Coppola started a clothing line called ""Milkfed"", which is now sold exclusively in Japan. Among extensive Hollywood family are her aunt Talia Shire, and her first cousins Nicolas Cage and Jason Schwartzman. Coppola's acting career, marked by frequent criticisms of nepotism and negative reviews, began while she was an infant, as she made background appearances in seven of her father's"
"family, for wins by: Walter, John, and Anjelica. For her work on ""Lost in Translation"", Coppola also won the Best Motion Picture and Best Screenplay Golden Globes, in addition to receiving three BAFTA Award nominations. On September 11, 2010, ""Somewhere"" won the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice International Film Festival. Coppola is the first American woman to win the award. On May 28, 2017, Coppola was awarded the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival for ""The Beguiled"", making her the second ever woman (and the first American woman) to win the award. In 1992, Coppola"
"and a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005). Francis Ford Coppola ('67) was the director of the gangster film trilogy ""The Godfather"" and the Vietnam War film ""Apocalypse Now"" and Dustin Lance Black is the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of the film Milk. Meb Keflezighi ('98) is the winner of the 2014 Boston Marathon. UCLA also boasts an excellent military background, with hundreds of alumni serving their nation. Carlton Skinner was a U.S. Navy Commander who racially integrated the service at the end of World War II on the . He was also the first civilian governor of Guam. Francis B."
"While notorious for its lengthy and strenuous production, the film is widely acclaimed for its vivid depiction of the Vietnam War. It won the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, making Coppola one of only eight filmmakers to win two Palme d'Or awards. While a number of Coppola's ventures in the 1980s and 1990s were critically lauded, he has never quite achieved the same commercial success with films as in the 1970s. His most well-known films released since the start of the 1980s are the dramas ""The Outsiders"" and ""Rumble Fish"" (both 1983), the crime-drama ""The Cotton Club"""