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 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.

In San Francisco, Coppola owns a restaurant named Cafe Zoetrope, located in the Sentinel Building.

The original 22-member Board of Trustees included Chair Gregory Peck and Vice Chair Sidney Poitier as well as Francis Ford Coppola, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Jack Valenti and other representatives from the arts and academia.

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His contemporaries include Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, John Milius, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, John Carpenter, and Ridley Scott.

Francis Ford Coppola directed The Godfather ( 1972 ).

Francis Ford Coppola (, ; born April 7, 1939 )

Francis Ford Coppola at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

Francis Ford Coppola at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Coppola serves as the " Honorary Consul H. E. Francis Ford Coppola " for the Central American nation of Belize in San Francisco.

Over the years, Francis Coppola has given political contributions to several candidates of the Democratic Party, including Mike Thompson, Nancy Pelosi for the U. S. House of Representatives and Barbara Boxer and Alan Cranston for the U. S. Senate.

He became the fourth two-time recipient, joining Alf Sjöberg, Francis Ford Coppola and Bille August.

He appeared at the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in 2007 with Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola to present the Best Director award to their friend Martin Scorsese.

" In the same year, he was invited by Francis Ford Coppola to recruit a production staff for American Zoetrope's One from the Heart ( 1982 ).

Voight took a supporting role in The Rainmaker, adopted from the John Grisham novel and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Director Francis Ford Coppola convinced Brando to submit to a " make-up " test, in which Brando did his own makeup ( he used cotton balls to simulate the puffed-cheek look ).

Brownlow's restoration was later distributed in America re-edited and shortened by Francis Ford Coppola with a live orchestral score composed by his father Carmine Coppola.

The same year, he began a long working relationship with Francis Ford Coppola, who asked Waits to provide music for his film One from the Heart.

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.

Most trilogies are works of fiction involving the same characters or setting, such as The Deptford Trilogy of novels by Robertson Davies or The Godfather films of Francis Ford Coppola, " " The Shiva Trilogy " by Amish Tripathi.

* Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) — winner of two Academy Awards, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.