
Coppola's reputation as a filmmaker was cemented with the release of The Godfather (1972), which revolutionized the gangster genre of filmmaking, receiving strong commercial and critical reception. Coppola is the recipient of five Academy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Palmes d'Or and a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA).Īfter directing The Rain People in 1969, Coppola co-wrote Patton (1970), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay along with Edmund H.


He is considered one of the major figures of the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Francis Ford Coppola ( / ˈ k oʊ p əl ə/ KOH-pəl-ə, Italian: born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
