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 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 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.

However, his reputation was restored over the years, and by the time of his death, he and Pressburger were recognised as one of the foremost film partnerships of all time-and cited as a key influence by many noted filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.

Coppola noted that he first noticed Keaton in Lovers and Other Strangers, and cast her because of her reputation for eccentricity that he wanted her to bring to the role ( Keaton claims that at the time she was commonly referred to as " the kooky actress " of the film industry ).

Francis Ford Coppola once noted that Storaro was the only man he ever knew that could fall off a ladder in a white suit, into the mud, and not get dirty.

He is noted for his choice of forceful characters such as Charlotte Gainsbourg, Courtney Love, Hilary Swank, Salma Hayek, Björk, Sofia Coppola, Robert Mitchum and Javier Bardem.

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

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 ).

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.

One of these featured Francis Ford Coppola ( an executive producer of the film ), which later inspired his daughter Sofia Coppola in her writing of Lost in Translation, a film which focuses on an American actor filming a Suntory commercial in Tokyo.

Gallop wrote in 2001: " After completing this game I know how Francis Coppola felt after filming Apocalypse Now.

In June 1973, during the filming of The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ), Coppola announced his intention to start development at American Zoetrope as writer, producer and director.

Coppola originally intended to write the screenplay himself, but due to his commitment to the filming of Gardens of Stone ( 1987 ), engaged Arnold Schulman who scripted Capra's A Hole in the Head ( 1959 ).

Coppola included the involvement of Preston Tucker's children, grandchildren and members of the Tucker Estate during the development of Tucker in the late 1970s, as well as during filming in 1987.

Brennan and Waits met in 1980 during the filming of the Francis Ford Coppola film One from the Heart.

The Conversation, which Coppola directed, produced and wrote, was released that same year, winning the Palme d ' Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.

Although Coppola insisted that this was purely coincidental, for not only was the script for The Conversation completed in the mid-1960s ( before the election of Richard Nixon ) but the spying equipment used in the film was discovered through research and the use of technical advisers and not, as many believed, by revelatory newspaper stories about the Watergate break-in.

Coppola shot The Godfather Part II parallel to The Conversation.

The Conversation is a 1974 American psychological thriller film written, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman.

* The Conversation ( 1974 ) ( directed by Francis Ford Coppola )

In the DVD audio commentary for The Conversation, director Francis Ford Coppola revealed that Blowup was a major source of inspiration for that film.

* David Shire, Grammy Award-winning songwriter and composer ; scored The Conversation for brother-in-law Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola shot scenes of The Conversation ( 1974 ) in Union Square, where the bugged conversation which forms the foundation of the movie takes place.

Jendresen is attached to multiple projects in various stages of development, including National Geographic Films ' Aloft ( starring Robert Redford ), The Hot Zone ( based on Richard Preston's novel ) Fire ( based on the Sebastian Junger book of the same name ), The 300 Spartans, Explaining Hitler, Cousteau, The Immortals, Journey to the Center of the Earth, a prequel to Star Trek, a 4-hour miniseries, " Majestic-12 ", a television series based on the history of The Pony Express with Robert Duvall, a television series based on the Francis Ford Coppola film, " The Conversation ", with Christopher McQuarrie, a television series " Mars " with NBC, a television series " Neurasthenia " with Melanie Griffith, an 8-hour miniseries adaptation of " Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West " with Salma Hayek and ABC, and a feature presentation " Killing Lincoln " which he is co-producing with Ridley Scott for the National Geographic Channel.