Although Coppola was not credited for his effort, according to one source, " by the time the final version was released in 1982, only 30 percent of Wenders ' footage remained, and the rest was completely reshot by Coppola, whose mere ' executive producer ' credit is just a technicality.

Three years later, Sofia Coppola credited In the Mood for Love as her largest inspiration on her Oscar-nominated film Lost in Translation, which itself ended with secrets being shared, and made important use of another song by Bryan Ferry.

* Nicolas Cage as Brad's Bud ( credited as Nicolas Coppola )

He was credited as " Nicolas Coppola " for the only time in his career.

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

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

Taking inspiration from Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), Kabuki theater and the work of Bertolt Brecht, Coppola initially planned to make Tucker as a " dark kind of musical.

Coppola followed it with a critically successful sequel, The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ), which became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

His parents were Italia ( née Pennino ) and Carmine Coppola, who was the first flautist for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

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.

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.

The company that hired Coppola to edit Tonight for Sure brought him back to re-cut a German film titled Mit Eva fing die Sünde an directed by Fritz Umgelter.

While on location in Ireland for The Young Racers in 1963, Corman, ever alert for an opportunity to produce a decent movie on a shoestring budget, persuaded Coppola to make a low-budget horror movie with funds left over from that movie.

In 1965, Coppola won the annual Samuel Goldwyn Award for the best screenplay ( Pilma, Pilma ) written by a UCLA student.

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

Coppola co-wrote the script for Patton in 1970 along with Edmund H. North.

However, it was not easy for Coppola to convince Franklin J. Schaffner that the opening scene would work.

The near 3-hour-long epic, which chronicled the saga of the Corleone family, received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics, and fetched Coppola the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, which he shared with Mario Puzo, and two Golden Globe Awards-for Best Director and Best Screenplay.

When Coppola hit upon the idea of making it a metaphor for American capitalism, however, he eagerly agreed to take the helm.

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 ).

It went on to win multiple awards, including Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Coppola.

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.

It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and received 6 Oscars, including 3 for Coppola: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director.

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.

Carmine Coppola wrote and edited the musical score, including the title song " Stay Gold ", which was based upon a famous Robert Frost poem and performed for the movie by Stevie Wonder.

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.

Other critics felt that Coppola was too talented to be making this type of film.

Although ridiculed for making the film, Coppola has defended it, saying he is not ashamed of the final cut of the movie.

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.

Francis Ford Coppola is making the film for which he will always be remembered — an adaptation of Dracula starring Marlon Brando as Dracula and Martin Sheen as Jonathan Harker.

Howell has worked with Francis Ford Coppola many times and in other areas of making motion pictures including writing, producing, and directing.

Coppola accepted the jobs as screenwriter and then director because he needed the money — he was deeply in debt from making One From the Heart with his own money.

Her position was Assistant Art Director, while Coppola was making his directorial debut with the film.

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.

The film would go on to win the Palme d ' Or, making it his second win of the prestigious award in three years and putting him in an elite club of only seven with the likes of Francis Ford Coppola.

In 1979, director Francis Ford Coppola, in the grip of clinical manic depression and anxiety over his incomplete opus Apocalypse Now, and while purportedly under the influence of his girlfriend, screenwriter Melissa Mathison, proposed making a " ten-hour film version of Goethe's Elective Affinities, in 3D ".

Meanwhile, Spielberg and Lucas, now joined by Francis Ford Coppola, start making their way to the premiere in a convoy with the film's print enclosed in an ark being carried.

While a graduate student, one of his teachers was Dorothy Arzner, whose encouragement Coppola later acknowledged as pivotal to his film career.

At UCLA, Coppola directed a short horror film called “ The Two Christophers ” inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's " William Wilson ".

Following the success of You're a Big Boy Now, Coppola was offered the reins of the movie version of the Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow, starring Petula Clark, in her first American film, and veteran Fred Astaire.

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 ".

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

In the director's commentary on the DVD edition of the film ( released in 2002 ), Coppola states that this film was the first major motion picture to use " Part II " in its title.

According to Coppola, the studio's objection stemmed from the belief that audiences would be reluctant to see a film with such a title, as the audience would supposedly believe that, having already seen The Godfather, there was little reason to see an addition to the original story.

The production of the film was plagued by numerous problems, including typhoons, nervous breakdowns, the firing of Harvey Keitel, Martin Sheen's heart attack, extras from the Philippine military leaving in the middle of scenes to go fight rebels, and an unprepared Brando with a bloated appearance ( which Coppola attempted to hide by shooting him in the shadows ).

In 2001, Coppola re-released Apocalypse Now as Apocalypse Now Redux, restoring several sequences lost from the original 1979 cut of the film, thereby expanding its length to 200 minutes.

The film earned Coppola positive feedback and provided Kathleen Turner her first and only Oscar nomination.

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

In 1989 Coppola teamed up with fellow Oscar-winning directors Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen for an anthology film called New York Stories.

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

The last film Coppola directed in the 90s, The Rainmaker was based on the 1995 novel of the same name by John Grisham.