Mr.
Francis Ford Coppola
American Zoetrope
Film director; Producer
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Performing Arts
Elected
2010
Film Director, Founder. Multiple Oscar-winning director, producer and screenwriter, wrote Patton (1970); wrote and directed The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather II (1974), The Conversation (1974), and Apocalypse Now (1979), among other films. Producer credits include George Lucas's early films, Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha (1980, with Lucas), and daughter, Sofia Coppola's, Lost in Translation (2003). Launched the careers of numerous Oscar-winning actors, screenwriters, and directors.
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