Info on Francis Ford Coppola and his films

1. Director Research Project

2. Born April 7, 1939
Youth
In Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
At the age of nine he contracted polio and spent most of his
time in bed locked away or in the hospital.
Coppola High
school photo
While he was in bed because of the polio he spent a lot of his
time setting up puppet theater for himself
(Wikipedia, 2012)
"Corman's World: Monsters, Mayhem & Breast Nudity! - The Demanders."
Corman's World: Monsters, Mayhem & Breast Nudity! - The Demanders.
Web. 16 May 2012. <http://blogs.suntimes.com/demand/2012/03/
cormans_world.html>.

3. Coppola worked on his first
big movie with Roger
Coppola
Corman Filming as an
apprentice
(Wikipedia, 2012)
Roger Corman
Filming
"Francis Ford Coppola: Interviews." Francis Ford Coppola:
"And The Oscar Goes To: Roger Corman." - Interviews. Web. 16 May 2012. <http://home.comcast.net/
Famous Monsters Of Filmland. Web. 22 May ~flickhead/Francis-Coppola-Interviews.html>.
2012. <http://famousmonstersoffilmland.com/
2009/11/20/and-the-oscar-goes-to-roger-corman/>.
Graduated from UCLA Film School
(Wikipedia, 2012)
At UCLA, Coppola directed a short horror film called
“The Two Christophers” inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's
"William Wilson".
Apprentice

4. Awards & Honors For The
David di
Donatello for
Godfather "Academy Award Winners: Best
Actor." Coolspotters. Web. 22
Academy Award
for Best Picture
Best Foreign Film May 2012. <http://
coolspotters.com/awards/
"Marco Tulio Giordana Drama Earns 16 Nominations for Italy's academy-award-winners-best-
Top Film Honors." The Hollywood Reporter. Web. 22 May 2012.
<http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/marco-tulio-giordana-
Golden Globe actor>.
donatello-awards-italy-nanni-moretti-paolo-sorrentino-311582>. Award for Best Academy Award for Best
Screenplay Writing (Adapted
"The 2010 Writers Guild of America Awards Winners." Golden Globe Screenplay)
Award for Best
"Manny The Movie Guy." Manny The Movie Guy. Web. 22 May 2012. <http://
MovieWeb. Web. 22 May 2012. <http://
Motion Picture –
www.movieweb.com/news/the-2010-writers-guild-of-
www.mannythemovieguy.com/index.php?m=01>.
"Hollywood Golden Guy: April 2011." Hollywood
america-awards-winners>.
Drama Golden Guy: April 2011. Web. 22 May 2012. <http://
hollywoodgoldenguy.blogspot.com/
Writers Guild of
2011_04_01_archive.html>.
America Award for
Best Drama Adapted
from Another
Medium
Golden Globe Award
for Best Director
Directors Guild of America Award for
Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film
(Wikipedia, 2012)

5. Techniques/Style
"Thread: Godfather: 40 Years If an Offer." Bollywood Fans. Web. 22 May 2012. <http://bollywoodfans.org/
showthread.php?10129-Godfather-40-years-if-an-offer/page2>.
"Journal - I Want To Be A Coppola." Journal - I Want To Be A Coppola. Web. 22 May 2012. <http://
www.iwanttobeacoppola.com/journal/tag/sofia-coppola?currentPage=14>.
"Thread: Godfather: 40 Years If an Offer." Bollywood Fans. Web. 22 May 2012. <http://
bollywoodfans.org/showthread.php?10129-Godfather-40-years-if-an-offer/page2>.
Coppola Tries to
incorporate a very
dramatic feel to most
Coppola liked to
of his movies grabbing
incorporate his italian
Coppola also put a lot into the viewer’s attention
culture into his movies his movies about respect
and plays with it
and show how much being a huge thing and
family means to him that really shows in this
sceen

6. "DRACULA Affiche "New Poster for Francis Ford Coppola's TWIXT
Original FR Coppola Movie." New Poster for Francis Ford Coppola's
Gary Oldman." At TWIXT Movie. Web. 22 May 2012. <http://
Mauvais-genres Com. www.upcoming-movies.com/Articles/new-poster-
Web. 23 May 2012. "Vintage Movie Posters * Rare and for-francis-ford-coppola-s-twixt-movie/>.
<http://www.mauvais- "Andipantz." Original Film Posters." Vintage Movie
genres.com/en/ Film & Movies Posters * Rare and Original Film
vintage-movie- Archive at. Posters. Web. 23 May 2012. <http://
posters/3372- Malone. "Peggy Sue Web. 24 May
Got Married." www.vintagemovieposters.co.uk/
product.html>. 2012. <http:// shop/index.php?app=gbu0>.
Signis.net. 4 Oct. www.andipantz.
2011. Web. 24 May com/category/
2012. <http:// film-movies/>.
www.signis.net/
malone/tiki-
index.php?
page=Peggy+Sue
+Got+Married>.
"The Invisible
Province." :
Apocalypse Now.
Web. 22 May 2012.
<http://
theinvisibleprovince.b
"The Star Trek Sequel
logspot.com/2011/06/
Might Feature a
apocalypse-now-
Seriously Unexpected
flawed-
Alien Race!" Io9.
masterpiece.html>.
Web. 23 May 2012.
<http://io9.com/
5860359/the-star-trek-
sequel-might-feature-
a-seriously-
unexpected-alien-
race>.
"MRQE Ranks: The
Best of the Best
Pictures." The Best Of
The Best Pictures
â!! MRQE â!!
the Movie Review
Query Engine. Web.
23 May 2012. <http://
www.mrqe.com/lists/
"The Godfather Part Iii
best-pictures/the-best- The Coppola Restoration
of-the-best-pictures>. Movie Poster." , The
Films
Godfather Part Iii The
"Listening to The
Coppola Restoration DVD
Conversation." Listening
Cover. Web. 22 May
to Coppola's The
2012. <http://
Conversation. Web. 24
www.freecodesource.com/
May 2012. <http://
movie-posters/
www.identitytheory.com/
B0019L21H4--the-
listening-to-the-
godfather-part-iii-the-
conversation/>.
coppola-restoration-
"Facebook to Feature Video Game Based on The Godfather Film movie-poster.html>.
Series."NothingButSoftware Blog. Web. 24 May 2012. <http://
blog.nothingbutsoftware.com/2011/08/facebook-to-feature-video-game-
based-on-the-godfather-film-series/>.

7. Coppola talking on a
Coppola has problems getting talk show
financing, so why should I not have "Mumbai Underbelly at TIFF." The Times Of India.
problems getting financing. -Alex
Web. 24 May 2012. <http://
articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-09-17/news-
interviews/30168527_1_deepa-mehta-midnight-s-
Winter
children-salman-rushdie>.
I think my favorite, and Coppola and that
whole thing. East coast Italian directors I
guess. -Anthony Michael Hall
The money part is one of the most difficult things.
Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it
hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have
gotten the money.
-Robert Duvall
Quotes About Coppola

8. Quotes By Coppola
When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very
frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I
was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television. -Coppola
We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we
didn`t speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being
Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food. -Coppola
The Godfather changed my life, for better or worse. It definitely
made me have an older man`s film career when I was 29. So
"Francis Ford Coppola to Return
Inglenook to 'lower Alcohol'" Wine
now I say, `If I had my older career when I was young, as an
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older man, maybe I can have a young film-maker`s career.` -
Tasting and More with Decanter.com.
Web. 24 May 2012. <http:// Coppola
Coppola in his later www.decanter.com/news/wine-news/
527661/francis-ford-coppola-to-return-
years inglenook-to-lower-alcohol>.

9. Legacy - Influence
Coppola has made many big influences in the way that
people film now.
One is that people film their shots, with much less light, making
them more dramatic
Another being that coppola incorporated a lot of culture into
his movie ‘the godfather’ and that really changed a lot about
how stories were told
"Insanity." Insanity. Web. 24
May 2012. <http://
raunakzzz.wordpress.com/
2012/03/27/10-things-you-didnt-
know-about-the-godfather-parti/
Famous dramatic scene
from the godfather
>.

10. Sources
"Francis Ford Coppola." IMDb. IMDb.com. Web. 14 May 2012.
<http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000338/>.
"Francis Ford Coppola." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 05 Dec.
2012. Web. 14 May 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Francis_Ford_Coppola>.
"Quotes." BrainyQuote. Xplore. Web. 16 May 2012. <http://
www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/coppola.html>.
"Francis Ford Coppola Quotes." Francis Ford Coppola Quotes.
Web. 16 May 2012. <http://quotes.lucywho.com/francis-ford-
coppola-quotes-t865.html>.
"Google Images." Google Images. Web. 24 May 2012. <http://
www.google.com/imghp?hl=en>.