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Born April 7, 1939 (age 86) • Detroit • Michigan
Awards And Honors Kennedy Center Honors (2024) • Praemium Imperiale (2013) • Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (2011) • Academy Award (1975) • Academy Award (1973) • Academy Award (1971)
Notable Works “Apocalypse Now” • “Apocalypse Now Redux” • “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” • “Dementia 13” • “Finian’s Rainbow” • “Gardens of Stone” • “Jack” • “Megalopolis” • “One from the Heart” • “Patton” • “Peggy Sue Got Married” • “Rumble Fish” • “Tetro” • “The Conversation” • “The Cotton Club” • “The Godfather, Part II” • “The Godfather, Part III” • “The Godfather” • “The Outsiders” • “The Rain People” • “The Rainmaker” • “Tucker: The Man and His Dream” • “Twixt” • “You’re a Big Boy Now” • “Youth Without Youth”
Notable Family Members daughter Sofia Coppola

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Francis Ford Coppola directing The Godfather: Part II
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Martin Scorsese
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George Lucas
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Warren Beatty
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Orson Welles
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Huston, John; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
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Elia Kazan
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Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
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Leo McCarey
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Ben Affleck
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Barbra Streisand
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Oliver Stone
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Richard Brooks
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