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Film & Television
Francis Ford Coppola
b. 1939Detroit, MIItalian American descendantLiving
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Why Included
Director of The Godfather trilogy — the defining Italian American cinematic saga — and winner of five Academy Awards.
Notable For
- Directed The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974)
- Won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay
Honors & Recognition
- 5 Academy Awards
- AFI Life Achievement Award
Sources
- Encyclopaedia Britannicabiography
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Quick Facts
- Field
- Film & Television
- Specialty
- Directing
- Years
- b. 1939
- Birth Place
- Detroit, MI
- Origin
- Italian American descendant
- Publication Status
- Published
- Ancestry Verification
- Confirmed
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