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Francis Ford Coppola is an American filmmaker born on the 7th of April 1939 in Detroit, Michigan. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in cinema, known for The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now.
Francis Ford Coppola has won five Academy Awards. His other honors include a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Palmes d'Or, making him one of only ten filmmakers to win the Cannes award twice.
The Philippine production of Apocalypse Now endured typhoons, the firing of Harvey Keitel, Martin Sheen's heart attack, and Marlon Brando arriving overweight and unprepared. Coppola also illegally hired a grave robber for real human corpses and oversaw the ritualistic killing of a water buffalo, and the delays earned it the nickname Apocalypse When?
Francis Ford Coppola began by writing and editing erotic films known as nudie-cuties in the early 1960s, when he made $10 per week. He directed his first feature, the cult horror film Dementia 13, in 1963 on a $40,000 budget over nine days while working for producer Roger Corman.
Francis Ford Coppola used proceeds from The Godfather to buy the former home and vineyard of Gustave Niebaum in Rutherford, California in 1975. His winery produced its first vintage in 1977, made with his father, wife, and children stomping grapes barefoot, and in 2011 he acquired the historic Inglenook trademark.
Francis Ford Coppola's father Carmine was a composer, his sister Talia Shire is an actress, his daughter Sofia is a director, and his son Roman is a screenwriter. His nephews Jason Schwartzman and Nicolas Cage are actors.
Coppola said in 2015 that he ended his career making what he called factory movies because he no longer wanted to compete with a film industry that had gone into the superhero business with enormous budgets. He preferred to self-finance very small, low-budget films and experiment with the form.