The film was overshadowed by the death of Coppola's eldest son Gian-Carlo Coppola during the film's production.

They had three children: Sofia Coppola, Roman Coppola and Gian-Carlo Coppola.

* May 26 – Gian-Carlo Coppola, American film producer ( b. 1963 )

The couple married in Las Vegas that same year and gave birth to their first son Gian-Carlo Coppola.

The book consists of short passages from each day beginning with the death of her oldest son Gian-Carlo Coppola at the age of 22 and the birth of her granddaughter Gia just months later.

The death of Gian-Carlo Coppola serves as a constant reminder throughout the entire book.

Coppola's eldest son, Gian-Carlo, was in the early stages of a film production career when he was killed on May 26, 1986 in a speedboat accident.

Because Spoleto was a small town, where real estate and other goods and services were at the time relatively inexpensive, and also because there are two indoor theatres, a Roman theatre and many other spaces, it was chosen by Gian-Carlo Menotti as the venue for an arts festival.

Composed by Gian-Carlo Menotti with a libretto in English by the composer, the opera told of a disabled beggar boy living with his ( presumably ) widowed mother in the Holy Land.

* July 7 – Gian-Carlo Menotti, Italian-born American composer ( d. 2007 )

** Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher ( d. 1999 )

In his autobiography, mathematician Gian-Carlo Rota tells of casually browsing the mathematical stacks of Sterling Library and stumbling on a handwritten mailing list, attached to some of Gibbs's course notes, which listed over two hundred notable scientists of his day, including Poincaré, Hilbert, Boltzmann, and Mach.

Much later, after Ulam's death, another friend, Gian-Carlo Rota, asserted that the attack did change Ulam's personality ; afterwards, he turned from rigorous pure mathematics to more speculative conjectures concerning the application of mathematics to physics and biology.

* Eckert, J. Presper, The ENIAC ( in Nicholas Metropolis, J. Howlett, Gian-Carlo Rota, ( editors ), A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, Academic Press, New York, 1980, pp. 525 – 540 )

* Mauchly, John, The ENIAC ( in Metropolis, Nicholas, J. Howlett, Gian-Carlo Rota, 1980, A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, Academic Press, New York, ISBN 0-12-491650-3, pp. 541 – 550, " Original versions of these papers were presented at the International Research Conference on the History of Computing, held at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 10 – 15 June 1976.

It was heard one last time ( as the NBC Symphony Orchestra ) in the 1963 telecast of Gian-Carlo Menotti's Christmas opera for television, Amahl and the Night Visitors.

In the 1970s, Steven Roman, Gian-Carlo Rota, and others developed the umbral calculus by means of linear functionals on spaces of polynomials.

Other major contributors include Jack Edmonds, Jim Geelen, Eugene Lawler, László Lovász, Gian-Carlo Rota, P. D. Seymour, and Dominic Welsh.

* " Fine Hall in its golden age: Remembrances of Princeton in the early fifties ", by Gian-Carlo Rota.

In physics, Wick rotation, named after Gian-Carlo Wick, is a method of finding a solution to a mathematical problem in Minkowski space from a solution to a related problem in Euclidean space by means of a transformation that substitutes an imaginary-number variable for a real-number variable.

* James H. Wilkinson, Turing's Work at the National Physical Laboratory and the Construction of Pilot ACE, DEUCE and ACE ( in Nicholas Metropolis, J. Howlett, Gian-Carlo Rota, ( editors ), A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, Academic Press, New York, 1980 )

American Zoetrope is now owned entirely by Coppola's son and daughter, directors Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola.

Schwartzman was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Talia Shire ( née Coppola ) and the late producer Jack Schwartzman.

Schwartzman was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Talia Shire ( née Coppola ) and the late producer Jack Schwartzman.

The construct of family values played a crucial role in the Tucker's life and Coppola studiously selected Joan Allen for the part of Vera, Tucker's devoted wife while Christian Slater and Elias Koteas fill in the other central roles of eldest son and Tucker's friend and confederate, Alex Tremulis.

Director Francis Ford Coppola's son Roman Coppola played Sonny as a boy in the 1920s scene of that film.

Carmine Coppola ( June 11, 1910 – April 26, 1991 ) was an American composer, flautist, editor, musical director, and songwriter who contributed original music to The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Godfather Part III, and Apocalypse Now, all directed by his son Francis Ford Coppola.

Coppola was born in New York City, the son of Marie ( née Zasa ) and Agostino Coppola.

During that time he mostly worked as an orchestra conductor on Broadway and elsewhere, working with his son, legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, on additional music for his Finian's Rainbow.

Later, his son called on him to compose additional music for the score of The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ), in which he and his father received an in-movie tribute with the characters Agostino and Carmine Coppola, who appear in a deleted scene from the young Vito Corleone flashback segments.

* After the new carpet is installed, Vito, Clemenza and Tessio meet up with a gunsmith, Augustino Coppola, and his young son, Carmine Coppola.

Coppola was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, the son of set decorator / artist Eleanor Coppola ( née Neil ) and director Francis Ford Coppola.

* 1939 – Francis Ford Coppola, American director

Following the success of The Godfather, The Conversation and The Godfather Part II, Coppola began filming Apocalypse Now, an adaptation of Conrad ’ s Heart of Darkness set in Cambodia during the Vietnam War ( Coppola himself briefly appears as a TV news director ).

When Williams was offered the screenplay for Jack he said he would only agree to do it if Coppola agreed to sign on as director.

Sofia Coppola is an Academy Award-winning writer and nominated director.

He also co-wrote ( along with director Wes Anderson and cousin Roman Coppola ) and starred in the 2007 film The Darjeeling Limited.

A production documentary of the film was titled, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, which exposed some of the major difficulties director Coppola faced in seeing the movie through to completion.

Adapted from Antonia Fraser's book Marie Antoinette: The Journey, the film was Dunst's second with director Sofia Coppola.

On June 26, 1999, Jonze married director Sofia Coppola, whom he had first met in 1992.

** Francis Ford Coppola, American film director

Screen names are also used to create a more marketable name, as in the case of Creighton Tull Chaney, who adopted the pseudonym Lon Chaney, Jr., a reference to his famous father Lon Chaney, Sr. On the converse, Nicolas Cage adopted this stage name instead of his real name, Nicolas Kim Coppola, in order to conceal the appearance of nepotism as the nephew of famous director Francis Ford Coppola.

Actor Nicolas Cage, born Nicolas Coppola, chose a new last name to avoid comparisons to his uncle, director Francis Ford Coppola, who gave him his big break in the movie Peggy Sue Got Married.

* Francis Ford Coppola, Film director

The Godfather DVD Collection was released on October 9, 2001 in a package that contained all three films — each with a commentary track by Coppola — and a bonus disc that featured a 73-minute documentary from 1991 entitled The Godfather Family: A Look Inside and other miscellany about the film: the additional scenes originally contained in The Godfather Saga ; Francis Coppola's Notebook ( a look inside a notebook the director kept with him at all times during the production of the film ); rehearsal footage ; a promotional featurette from 1971 ; and video segments on Gordon Willis's cinematography, Nino Rota's and Carmine Coppola's music, the director, the locations and Mario Puzo's screenplays.

Coppola was the third director in Hollywood history to have two films released in the same year, each nominated for Best Picture.

The novel was adapted into a 1999 film by director Sofia Coppola.

* Francis Ford Coppola, film director ( graduated from Great Neck High School )

After working with Kieślowski on Three Colors: Blue, Preisner was hired by the producer Francis Ford Coppola to write the score for The Secret Garden, directed by Polish director Agnieszka Holland.

Air have often collaborated with American film director Sofia Coppola.

Contracts with actress and director Barbra Streisand, actors James Caan, Jane Fonda, Peter Sellers, and Burt Reynolds, directors Francis Ford Coppola and Blake Edwards, writer John Milius, singer Peter Frampton, and producer Ray Stark quickly followed.