Who is Francis Ford Coppola?

Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was a central figure in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. His accolades include five Academy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Palmes d'Or, and a British Academy Film Award.

His best-known films released since the start of the 1980s are the dramas "The Outsiders" and "Rumble Fish" (both 1983), the crime dramas "The Cotton Club" (1984) and "The Godfather Part III" (1990), and the romantic-horror film "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992) based on the novel of the same name. A number of Coppola's relatives and children have become famous actors and filmmakers in their own right: his sister is the actress Talia Shire, his daughter Sofia Coppola and granddaughter Gia Coppola are directors, and the actors Jason Schwartzman and Nicolas Cage are his nephews. Coppola resides in Napa, California, and since the 2010s has been a vintner and owns a family-brand as well as a winery of his own.