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List of awards and nominations received by Francis Ford Coppola

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Coppola in 1975
Awards won
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The following is a List of awards and nominations received by Francis Ford Coppola.

Francis Ford Coppola is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. Coppola is the winner of several film awards both nationally and internationally including five Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival prizes. His movies The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974) and Apocalypse Now (1979) are often cited among the greatest films of all time.[1]

Coppola received his first Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the biographical war epic 'Patton (1970). He won the Best Adapted Screenplay for the gangster epic The Godfather (1972), and Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay for its sequel The Godfather Part II (1974). He was Oscar-nominated for American Graffiti (1973), The Conversation (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), and The Godfather Part III (1990). At the Governors Awards he received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The honor was bestowed on him on November 13, along with honorary Oscars to Jean-Luc Godard, Kevin Brownlow and Eli Wallach.[2]

He won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or for the neo-noir mystery The Conversation (1974) and the Vietnam war epic Apocalypse Now (1979). He also earned the British Academy Film Award for Apocalypse Now and three Golden Globe Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay for The Godfather (1972) and Best Director for Apocalypse Now. He won the Directors Guild of America Awards for The Godfather and The Godfather Part II.

Over his career he earned numerous honorary awards including the Berlin International Film Festival's Berlinale Camera in 1991, Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion in 1992, the Directors Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998, a Gala Tribute from the Film Society at Lincoln Center in 2002, was inducted to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2022 and received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2024. Four of Coppola's films have been inducted into the National Film Registry, The Conversation, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and Apocalypse Now.[3] Three of Coppola's films were listed as the American Film Institute's Top 100 films and he was named by Sight and Sound as the fourth greatest Director of all time in 2002.

Major associations

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1970 Best Original Screenplay Patton Won [4]
1972 Best Director The Godfather Nominated [5]
Best Adapted Screenplay Won
1973 Best Picture American Graffiti Nominated [6]
1974 Best Picture The Conversation Nominated [7]
Best Original Screenplay Nominated
Best Picture The Godfather Part II Won
Best Director Won
Best Adapted Screenplay Won
1979 Best Picture Apocalypse Now Nominated [8]
Best Director Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated
1990 Best Picture The Godfather Part III Nominated [9]
Best Director Nominated
2010 Irving G. Thalberg Award Honored [10]
Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
1974 Best Director The Conversation Nominated [11]
Best Screenplay Nominated
1979 Best Director Apocalypse Now Won [12]
Best Music Nominated
Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
Primetime Emmy Awards
1997 Outstanding Limited Series The Odyssey Nominated [13]
1998 Moby Dick Nominated [14]
Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1972 Best Director The Godfather Won [15]
Best Screenplay Won
1974 Best Director The Conversation Nominated [15]
Best Screenplay Nominated
Best Director The Godfather Part II Nominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
1979 Best Director Apocalypse Now Won [15]
1984 Best Director The Cotton Club Nominated [15]
1990 Best Director The Godfather Part III Nominated [15]
Best Screenplay Nominated
1997 Best Limited Series or Movie The Odyssey Nominated [15]
Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1980 Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Apocalypse Now Nominated [16]

Industry awards

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Organizations Year Category Work Result Ref.
Cannes Film Festival 1966 Palme d'Or You're a Big Boy Now Nominated
1974 The Conversation Won
1979 Apocalypse Now Won
2024 Megalopolis Nominated
Directors Guild of America Award 1972 Outstanding Directing – Feature Film The Godfather Won
1974 The Conversation Nominated
The Godfather Part II Won
1979 Apocalypse Now Nominated
1990 The Godfather Part III Nominated
Writers Guild of America Award
1966 Best American Screenplay – Comedy You're a Big Boy Now Nominated
1970 Best Original Screenplay Patton Won
1972 Best Adapted Screenplay The Godfather Won
1974 The Godfather Part II Won
Best Original Screenplay The Conversation Nominated
1979 Apocalypse Now Nominated

Miscellaneous awards

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Organizations Year Category Work Result Ref.
CableACE Award 1987 Outstanding Directing in a Dramatic Special Faerie Tale Theatre Nominated
1993 Outstanding Animated Programming The Junky's Christmas Nominated
Cahiers du cinéma 1984 Best Film Rumble Fish 6th place
1990 The Godfather Part III 4th place
2009 Tetro 6th place
2011 Twixt 3rd place
César Award 1979 Best Foreign Film Apocalypse Now Nominated
David di Donatello 1979 Best Foreign Director Apocalypse Now Won
1980 Best Foreign Producer Kagemusha Won
Edgar Allen Poe Award 1974 Best Motion Picture Screenplay The Conversation Nominated
Hugo Award 1992 Best Dramatic Presentation Bram Stoker's Dracula Nominated
International Confederation of Art Cinemas 2009 CICAE Award Tetro Nominated
International Federation of Film Critics 1979 FIPRESCI Prize Apocalypse Now Won
Japan Academy Film Prize 1984 Outstanding Foreign Language Film The Cotton Club Nominated
Kansas City Film Critics Circle 1972 Best Director The Godfather Won
1973 Best Film American Graffiti Nominated
1974 Best Director The Conversation Won
The Godfather Part II Won
London Film Critics Circle Award 1979 Best Film Apocalypse Now Won
National Board of Review 1974 Best Director The Conversation Won
National Society of Film Critics Award 1974 Best Director The Godfather Part II Won
San Sebastián International Film Festival 1969 Golden Shell The Rain People Won
Moscow International Film Festival 1983 Golden Prize The Outsiders Nominated [17]
1987 Golden Prize Gardens of Stone Nominated [18]
San Sebastián International Film Festival 1983 FIPRESCI Prize Rumble Fish Won
1983 OCIC Award Rumble Fish Won
Satellite Awards 1997 Best Miniseries or Movies for Television The Odyssey Nominated
Saturn Award 1992 Best Direction Bram Stoker's Dracula Won
Best Horror Film Won
1994 Best Horror Film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Nominated
Political Film Society 1987 Peace Award Gardens of Stone Nominated
1997 Democracy Award The Rainmaker Nominated
USC Scripter Award 1997 Best Screenplay The Rainmaker Nominated
Young Artist Awards 1983 Best Family Feature Motion Picture The Outsiders Nominated
1996 Best Family Feature – Musical or Comedy Jack Nominated
WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival 1971 Grand Remi Award - Feature Film THX 1138 Won

Honorary awards

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Organizations Year Award Result Ref.
Berlin International Film Festival 1991 Berlinale Camera Honored [19]
Venice Film Festival 1992 Golden Lion – Honorary Award Honored [19]
American Academy of Achievement 1994 Golden Plate Award Honored [20]
Directors Guild of America 1998 Lifetime Achievement Award Honored [19]
San Sebastián International Film Festival. 2002 50th Anniversary Award Honored [19]
Film Society of Lincoln Center 2002 Gala Tribute Honored [19]
Denver Film Festival 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award Honored [19]
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 2007 Honorary Award Honored [21]
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 2010 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Honored [22]
San Diego Comic Con 2012 Inkpot Award Honored [23]
Praemium Imperiale 2013 Statue Honored [24][25][26]
California Hall of Fame 2014 Inductee Honored [27]
Princess of Asturias Award 2015 Statue Honored [28]
Order of Intellectual Efficience of Morocco 2015 Gold Medal Honored [29]
Hofstra University 2016 Phi Beta Kappa Inductee Honored [30]
Lumière Film Festival 2019 Lumière Award Honored [31]
Hollywood Walk of Fame 2022 Inductee Honored [32]
Kennedy Center Honor 2024 Inductee Honored [33]

Special citations

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  • He featured at No. 17 in MovieMaker magazine's 25 most influential directors of all-time.[34]
  • He also ranked No. 9 in TopTenReviews' list of top directors of all time[35] and at No. 21 in Entertainment Weekly's top 50 directors of all time.[36]
  • Four of Coppola's films (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now, and Patton) featured in the Writers Guild of America, West list of 101 greatest screenplays ever.[37]
  • Three of his films feature in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies: The Godfather at #2, Apocalypse Now at #28, and The Godfather Part II at #32. The Godfather also ranks at No. 11 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills. The following Coppola films were also nominated for the list: American Graffiti (1973) – Producer, The Conversation (1974) – Director/Producer/Screenwriter, and Patton (1970) – Screenwriter.
  • In the 2002 poll of the Sight & Sound publication, Coppola ranked No. 4 in the Directors' top ten directors of all time[38] and No. 10 in the Critics' top ten directors of all time.[39] In a separate poll by the same magazine Coppla was listed at No. 8 on the list of the top ten film directors of modern time.[40]
  • Coppola was ranked at No. 15 on Empire magazine's "Top 40 Greatest Directors of All-Time" list in 2005.[41][42]
  • In 2007, Total Film magazine ranked Coppola at No. 5 on its "100 Greatest Film Directors Ever" list.[43]
  • Coppola serves as the "Honorary Consul H. E. Francis Ford Coppola" in San Francisco for Belize.[44]
  • Coppola is among only six people in Academy Award history to receive Oscars as a producer, director and screenwriter.[45]

Awards received by Coppola movies

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Year Film Academy Awards BAFTA Awards Golden Globe Awards
Nominations Wins Nominations Wins Nominations Wins
1966 You're a Big Boy Now 1 1 3
Is Paris Burning? 2 1
1968 Finian's Rainbow 2 5
1970 Patton 10 7 2 3 2
1972 The Godfather 10 3 5 1 7 6
1973 American Graffiti 5 1 4 2
1974 The Great Gatsby 2 2 3 3 4 3
The Conversation 3 5 2 4
The Godfather Part II 11 6 4 1 6
1979 Apocalypse Now 8 2 9 2 4 3
1982 One from the Heart 1
1983 Rumble Fish 1
1984 The Cotton Club 2 2 1 2
1986 Peggy Sue Got Married 3 2
1988 Tucker: The Man and His Dream 3 1 1 1 1
1990 The Godfather Part III 7 7
1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula 4 3 4
1997 The Rainmaker 1
Total 80 23 39 11 56 17

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