Coppola also founded the cinema workshop at Hofstra and contributed prolifically to the campus literary magazine.

According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".

Coppola chose Brando over Ernest Borgnine on the basis of Brando's screen test, which also won over the Paramount leadership.

the Life Without Zoe segment starring his sister Talia Shire, and also co-wrote the film with his daughter Sofia Coppola.

Coppola also owns Francis Ford Coppola Winery near Geyserville, California where he has opened a family-friendly facility with swimming pools, bocce courts and a restaurant.

Coppola is also the owner of Francis Ford Coppola Presents, a lifestyle brand under which he markets goods from companies he owns or controls.

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

The following Coppola films were also nominated for the list:

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.

Others to win twice in this category include: George Seaton, Robert Bolt ( who also won in two consecutive years ), Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Alvin Sargent, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Alexander Payne and Michael Wilson.

Coppola also noted that filming of The Conversation had been completed several months before the most revelatory Watergate stories broke in the press.

Coppola also notes on the commentary that Hackman considers this one of his favorite performances.

Between The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Coppola directed The Conversation, released in 1974 and also nominated for Best Picture.

With the help of his top capos, Joe Adonis, Anthony Carfano ( also known as " Little Augie Pisano ") and Michael " Trigger Mike " Coppola, the crime family ran smoothly and undeterred.

He also used French revolutionary songs that were supplied by Davis in early 1980 during a London meeting between Coppola, Davis and Brownlow.

It has had four major revivals ( 1955, 1960 and 1967, 2009 ), and was also made into a film starring Fred Astaire and Petula Clark, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in 1968.

Rosebraugh's screenplay, " Burning Rage " was a quarterfinalist in the prestigious Francis Ford Coppola 2007 Zoetrope International Screenplay Competition and also in the 2009 Phoenix Film Festival Screenplay Competition.

* " Little Boy Blue " is also the name of a song written by Tom Waits and sung by Nastassja Kinski in the film One from the Heart directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1982.

While writing the screenplay of the thriller film The Conversation ( 1974 ) – also about sound recording – Francis Ford Coppola explained in the DVD commentary to that film that he was inspired by Blow Up.

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 and American Graffiti ), as well as many others by such cutting-edge directors as Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, Wim Wenders and Godfrey Reggio.

Lost in Translation, written and directed by Sofia Coppola and also produced by Zoetrope, won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2003.

Through her film work, Eleanor Coppola is able to illustrate not only what goes into a film financially, but also capture the emotional toll filmmaking has on the individuals on and off the camera.

Coppola had polio as a boy, leaving him bedridden for large periods of his childhood and allowing him to indulge his imagination with homemade puppet theater productions.

It was written, directed and initially produced by Coppola himself, though as the movie advanced, he fell short of his budget and the studio had to underwrite the remainder of the movie.

In 1969, Coppola took it upon himself to subvert the studio system which he felt had stifled his visions, intending to produce mainstream pictures to finance off-beat projects and give first-time directors their chance to direct.

Coppola and North had to tone down Patton's actual language to avoid an R rating ; in the opening monologue, the word " fornicating " replaced " fucking " when criticizing the The Saturday Evening Post.

However, Coppola had to face a lot of difficulties while filming The Godfather.

After pleading with the executives, Coppola was allowed to cast Brando only if he appeared in the film for much less salary than his previous films, perform a screen-test, and put up a bond saying that he would not cause a delay in the production ( as he had done on previous film sets ).

Before production of the film began, Coppola went to his mentor Roger Corman for advice about shooting in the Philippines, since Corman had filmed several pictures there.

After filming Apocalypse Now, Coppola famously stated: " We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.

Coppola credited his inspiration for making the film to a suggestion from middle school students who had read the novel.

A biopic based on the life of Preston Tucker and his attempt to produce and market the Tucker ' 48, Coppola had originally conceived the project as a musical with Marlon Brando after the release of The Godfather Part II.

Warner demanded that Coppola repay the $ 300, 000 they had loaned him for the Zoetrope studio, and insisted on cutting five minutes from the film.

Coppola stated that The Godfather Part IV was never made as Mario Puzo died before they had a chance to write the film.

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

Coppola was electrified by his characterization as the head of a crime family, but he had to fight the studio in order to cast the temperamental actor.

Thomas declined the role and urged the studio to cast Brando at the behest of Coppola and others who had witnessed the screen test.

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

In August 1980, Waits married Kathleen Brennan, a screenwriter, whom he had met while working on the set of the Francis Ford Coppola movie One from the Heart.

Murch had more or less a free hand during the editing process, since Coppola was already working on The Godfather Part II at the time.

Coppola noted in the DVD commentary that Hackman had a very difficult time adapting to the Harry Caul character because it was so much unlike himself.

Production nearly ended before it began when Pacino's lawyers told Coppola that he had grave misgivings with the script and wasn't coming.