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

Upon his return home, Coppola and George Lucas searched for a mansion in Marin to house the studio.

George Lucas commented on the film after its five-hour-long preview, telling Coppola: " You have two films.

The 1991 documentary film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, directed by Eleanor Coppola ( Francis's wife ), Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper, chronicles the difficulties the crew went through making Apocalypse Now, and features behind-the-scenes footage filmed by Eleanor.

George Lucas said that he based the Han Solo character in Star Wars on Coppola.

He was part of the wave of " New Hollywood " directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino, and 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.

, members of the Hanover Township Committee are Mayor John Sheridan, Deputy Mayor Ken Schleifer, George Coppola, John Ferramosca and Ronald Francioli.

The film stars Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, and Andy García, and features Eli Wallach, Joe Mantegna, George Hamilton, Bridget Fonda, and Sofia Coppola.

These were George Lucas at Lucasfilm and Francis Ford Coppola.

Beginning in late 1979, Carmine Coppola composed a score incorporating themes taken from various sources such as Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Bedřich Smetana, Erich Mendelsohn and George Frideric Handel.

George Wendt first appeared on the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live in a Season 11 ( 1985 – 1986 ) episode where he shared hosting duties with director Francis Ford Coppola.

American Zoetrope is a privately-run film studio, centred in San Francisco and founded by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas.

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.

* Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse ( 1991 ) ( directed by Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper )

The documentary film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse was co-directed by Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr, and George Hickenlooper.

In 1990, Eleanor Coppola turned her material over to two young filmmakers George Hickenlooper and Fax Bahr who then shot new interviews with the original cast and crew and intercut them with her existing material.

George Lucas and other high profile filmmakers including Francis Ford Coppola supported Murch in discussions with the studio, and Murch was reinstated and finished the film.

Among Paul Schrader's films in the 1980s were American Gigolo ( 1980 ), his 1982 remake of Cat People, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters ( 1985, again co-written with Leonard Schrader, with Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas serving as executive producers ), for which he was nominated for the Palme d ' Or prize at that year's Cannes Film Festival, and Patty Hearst ( 1988 ), about the kidnapping and transformation of the Hearst Corporation heiress.

Kaufman is based in San Francisco alongside other such luminaries as Francis Ford Coppola, Chris Columbus and nearby neighbor George Lucas, where he runs his production company Walrus and Associates with his family.

Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas served as executive producers.

George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola are credited at the end of the film as executive producers in the international version.

** Won: Best Producer-Foreign Film ( Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas ; tied with Hungaro Film for Angi Vera )

In the opening sketch of an episode hosted by George Wendt, the cast is informed that NBC is turning the show over to respected director Francis Ford Coppola, in a bid for greater artistic merit.

Shortly after completion of production Lucas and Coppola brought the finished film to Warner Bros., along with several other scripts for potential projects at American Zoetrope.

During the speech, Spielberg and Coppola talked about the joy of winning an Oscar, making fun of Lucas, who has not won a competitive Oscar.

Lucas wrote the initial script draft himself based on his earlier short film, but Coppola and Lucas agreed it was unsatisfactory, and Murch assisted Lucas to write an improved, final draft.

After completion of photography, Coppola scheduled a year for Lucas to complete postproduction.

Directors who have attended and earned degrees from film schools include Francis Ford Coppola ( UCLA Film School, MFA film directing ), Martin Scorsese ( NYU Film School, MFA film directing ), David Lynch ( AFI Conservatory, MFA Film Directing ), and George Lucas ( USC Film School, BA film directing ).

At one point, Coppola approached Capra to produce the film with Lucas, however, Capra thought Tucker was a failure and Coppola dropped that plan.

The filmmakers devised a $ 24 million production budget, but Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures, TriStar Pictures and Paramount Pictures wanted Coppola and Lucas to lower it to $ 15 million.

Coppola and Lucas acknowledged that they purposely intended to portray Tucker in an entirely sympathetic way.

However, after he chanced to see Sergei Eisenstein ’ s October, which impressed him profoundly, particularly the quality of editing in the movie, Coppola decided that he would not go into theater but would opt for cinema.

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 ).

I called Francis Coppola and asked who was young and exciting and he said to look at a movie called Mean Streets, which hadn ’ t been released yet.

Francis Ford Coppola ’ s Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) went so far as to not feature the title at all, except briefly as graffiti in Colonel Kurtz ’ ( Brando ) compound.

Coppola currently lives on her family ’ s winery in Napa Valley, California.

In 1976, she began documenting the making of Coppola ’ s war film Apocalypse Now.

This would not be the only documentation of the making of Francis Ford Coppola ’ s Apocalypse Now as she decided to film a documentary based on the same movie.

Such events caught on camera include the nervous breakdown of the film ’ s lead Martin Sheen as well as the trouble facing Francis Ford Coppola when an expensive set was destroyed.

The memoir Notes on a Life follows thirty years of Eleanor Coppola ’ s life as she juggles raising children and being there for Francis as he directs films that move the family from place to place.

Storaro ’ s first mainstream American film was Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1979, for which Storaro won his first Oscar.

In 1983, he was featured in Francis Ford Coppola ’ s youth drama Rumble Fish and appeared in the high school football drama All the Right Moves as the best friend of Tom Cruise's character.

In 1975, Francis Ford Coppola and his wife Eleanor, purchased Niebaum ’ s Victorian home, along with of surrounding vineyards.

In 1995, Coppola reunited the two original Inglenook parcels by purchasing the grand Inglenook chateau and surrounding vineyards ( neighboring vineyards include Heitz Wine Cellars Martha ’ s Vineyard and Beaulieu Vineyard Georges de Latour ).

where we hear Coppelius ’ voice but see Coppola.

King Xavier ’ s peers include Pedro Almodovar, Francis Ford Coppola, A. S. Byatt, Alice Munro, Umberto Eco, George Steiner, Ray Bradbury, Frank Gehry, J. M.