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Francis Ford Coppola (b. 1939)

• early films in 1960s were financial failures

• won Academy Award for co-writing script for Patton (1970)

• Most prestigious filmmaker of the 1970s: two best director Academy Awards

Classification of Coppola Films

• Large-scale epics: The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), The Godfather Part III (1990),

• Small-scale, offbeat stylized works: The Conversation (1974), Rumble Fish (1983), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

• Musicals: Finian’s Rainbow (1968), The Cotton Club (1984)

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