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Francis Ford Coppola

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Francis Ford Coppola ( KOH-pəl-ə, Italian: [ˈkɔppola]; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the leading figures of the New Hollywood film movement of the 1960s and 1970s and is widely considered one of the greatest directors of all time. He is the recipient of five Academy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Palmes d'Or, and a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA). After directing The Rain People in 1969, Coppola co-wrote Patton (1970), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay along with Edmund H. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis Ford Coppola has received more than 15,734,086 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Francis Ford Coppola is the 23rd most popular film director (down from 19th in 2019), the 154th most popular biography from United States (down from 136th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Film Director.

Francis Ford Coppola is most famous for directing the Godfather trilogy, which includes The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and The Godfather Part III.

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  • 16M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 86

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Us Weekly
Eleanor Coppola, Wife of Francis Ford Coppola, Dead at 87
Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Eleanor Coppola, an award-winning filmmaker and the wife of director Francis Ford Coppola, has died. She was 87 years old. In a statement shared with the Associated Press, the Coppola family announced that she passed aw…
Olivia Jakiel
Friday, April 12, 2024
Entertainment Weekly
Eleanor Coppola dead: Documentarian, wife of Francis Ford Coppola was 87
Eleanor Coppola, the Emmy-winning documentarian, noted visual artist, and wife of acclaimed director Francis Ford Coppola, with whom she raised a family of filmmakers, has died at 87.
Sydney Bucksbaum
Friday, April 12, 2024
Entertainment Tonight
Eleanor Coppola, Famed Documentarian and Francis Ford Coppola's Wife, Dead at 87
Eleanor famously documented her husband's exhausting effort to complete his 1979 classic 'Apocalypse Now.'
Miguel A. Melendez
Friday, April 12, 2024
WPVI-TV
Eleanor Coppola death: Matriarch of a filmmaking family, wife to Francis Ford Coppola and mother to Roman and Sofia, dies at 87
Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola's iconic films, and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87.
Jake Coyle And Lindsey Bahr
Friday, April 12, 2024

Page views of Francis Ford Coppolas by language

Over the past year Francis Ford Coppola has had the most page views in the with 2,584,223 views, followed by Spanish (303,815), and Italian (284,979). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (107.73%), Simple English (92.67%), and Hindi (85.90%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Francis Ford Coppola ranks 23 out of 2,041. Before him are Wim Wenders, Luchino Visconti, François Truffaut, Sergio Leone, Jean-Luc Godard, and Pedro Almodóvar. After him are Bernardo Bertolucci, Agnès Varda, Georges Méliès, Michelangelo Antonioni, George Lucas, and Miloš Forman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Francis Ford Coppola ranks 6. Before him are Lee Harvey Oswald, Ali Khamenei, Tina Turner, Terence Hill, and Ian McKellen. After him are Stanislav Petrov, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Amos Oz, Amanda Lear, Reuven Rivlin, and Giovanni Falcone.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Francis Ford Coppola ranks 154 out of 20,380. Before him are Stan Lee (1922), Ray Charles (1930), David Letterman (1947), Steven Seagal (1952), John Adams (1735), and Tom Selleck (1945). After him are J. D. Salinger (1919), James Monroe (1758), John Wayne (1907), John Steinbeck (1902), Denzel Washington (1954), and Frank Lloyd Wright (1867).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Francis Ford Coppola ranks 5. Before him are Steven Spielberg (1946), Martin Scorsese (1942), Stanley Kubrick (1928), and Woody Allen (1935). After him are George Lucas (1944), Quentin Tarantino (1963), Tim Burton (1958), John Ford (1894), David Lynch (1946), Oliver Stone (1946), and Brian De Palma (1940).

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Filmography

The Godfather
Director
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Mar 14o 19728.708 / 10
The Godfather Part II
Director
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Dec 20o 19748.589 / 10
Apocalypse Now
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At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Aug 15o 19798.3 / 10