List of awards and nominations received by Francis Ford Coppola explained

Francis Ford Coppola awards
Coppola in 1975 Totals Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards BAFTA Film Awards Golden Globe Awards Grammy Award Emmy Awards (Primetime)
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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

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1971		Patton		^[4]
1973	Best Director	The Godfather		^[5]
1974	Best Picture	American Graffiti		^[6]
1975	Best Picture	The Conversation		^[7]
Best Original Screenplay
Best Picture	The Godfather Part II
Best Director
Best Adapted Screenplay
1980	Best Picture	Apocalypse Now		^[8]
Best Director
Best Adapted Screenplay
1991	Best Picture	The Godfather Part III		^[9]
Best Director
2011	Irving G. Thalberg Award			^[10]

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
1975	Best Director	The Conversation		^[11]
Best Screenplay
1980	Best Director	Apocalypse Now		^[12]
Best Music

Emmy Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Primetime Emmy Awards
1997	Outstanding Limited Series	The Odyssey		^[13]
1998		Moby Dick		^[14]

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1973	Best Director	The Godfather		^[15]
Best Screenplay
1975	Best Director	The Conversation
Best Screenplay
Best Director	The Godfather Part II
Best Screenplay
1980	Best Director	Apocalypse Now
1985	Best Director	The Cotton Club
1991	Best Director	The Godfather Part III
Best Screenplay
1998	Best Limited Series or Movie	The Odyssey

Industry awards

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

Miscellaneous awards

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

Honorary awards

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

Special citations

• 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

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		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

Notes and References

1. Web site: 47th Academy Awards Winners: Best Picture . April 20, 2015 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402004005/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1975 . April 2, 2015.
2. Web site: Honorary Oscars for film legends Coppola, Godard . December 11, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140221124540/https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gUXrrhIktLlv3ZZ0hymjsi5mnVug?docId=CNG.abcbb510a5c046dbf43a74a8c92b43c3.1f1 . February 21, 2014.
3. Web site: Complete National Film Registry Listing. Library of Congress. July 26, 2024.
4. Web site: 43rd Academy Awards. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. July 26, 2024.
5. Web site: 45th Academy Awards. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. July 26, 2024.
6. Web site: 46th Academy Awards. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. July 26, 2024.
7. Web site: 47th Academy Awards. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. July 26, 2024.
8. Web site: 52nd Academy Awards. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. July 26, 2024.
9. Web site: 63rd Academy Awards. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. July 26, 2024.
10. Web site: 83rd Academy Awards. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. July 26, 2024.
11. Web site: 28th BAFTA Awards. awards.bafta.org. July 26, 2024.
12. Web site: 33rd BAFTA Awards. awards.bafta.org. July 26, 2024.
13. Web site: Nominees / Winners 1997 Emmy Awards. Television Academy. July 26, 2024.
14. Web site: Nominees / Winners 1998 Emmy Awards. Television Academy. July 26, 2024.
15. Web site: Francis Ford Coppola - Golden Globes. July 26, 2024. Golden Globe Awards.
16. Web site: Francis Ford Coppola. Grammy Awards. July 26, 2024.
17. Web site: 13th Moscow International Film Festival (1983) . 2013-01-31 . MIFF . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131107141111/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1983 . 2013-11-07 .
18. Web site: 15th Moscow International Film Festival (1987) . 2013-02-21 . MIFF . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130116194338/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1987 . 2013-01-16 .
19. Web site: Francis Ford Coppola . https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20170525045529/http://www.superiorpics.com/francis_ford_coppola/ . dead . May 25, 2017 . October 18, 2010 .
20. Web site: Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement . www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
21. Web site: 44th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival Kicks off . https://web.archive.org/web/20080803023641/http://www.icvbbulletin.org/trnews32.htm . dead . August 3, 2008 . October 19, 2010.
22. Web site: Oscar 2011: Francis Ford Coppola Gets Thalberg Award, Kevin Brownlow Gets Honorary Oscar . October 19, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110415012810/http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/francis-ford-coppola-kevin-brownlow-honorary-oscar-2011-thalberg-award/ . April 15, 2011 . dead .
23. Web site: Inkpot Award. December 6, 2012.
24. Web site: Francis Ford Coppola, 2013 Theatre/ Film, Praemium Imperiale . October 25, 2013. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150610224550/http://www.praemiumimperiale.org/en/component/k2/item/299-zoetrope/299-zoetrope . June 10, 2015.
25. Web site: 2013 Praemium Imperiale Press Conference . . October 25, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140301072732/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAs0BJYhZCk . March 1, 2014 . live.
26. Web site: Francis Ford Coppola, 2013 Laureate of Theatre/Film . . October 25, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140301081239/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r22gm5qHnHo . March 1, 2014 . live.
27. Web site: Meet the Newest California Hall of Fame Inductees . . October 5, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141006090509/http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/nbc-news-channel/meet-the-newest-california-hall-of-fame-inductees-336834115568 . October 6, 2014 . live.
28. Web site: Francis Ford Coppola, Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts . The Princess of Asturias Foundation . May 7, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150518075235/http://www.fpa.es/en/communication/francis-ford-coppola-princess-of-asturias-award-for-the-arts.html?idCategoria=0&fechaDesde=&especifica=0&texto=&fechaHasta=&tipo=0 . May 18, 2015 . dead .
29. Web site: Francis Ford Coppola 'Pour changer le monde, le cinéma doit être...' . December 21, 2015 . L'observateur du maroc et d'afrique . March 26, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180911044657/http://lobservateur.info/dossiers/francis-ford-coppola-pour-changer-le-monde-le-cinema-doit-etre-libere/ . September 11, 2018 . dead .
30. Web site: PBK Famous Members . depts.washington.edu . September 7, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161018010047/http://depts.washington.edu/uwpbk/famous.htm . October 18, 2016 . dead .
31. Web site: Prix Lumière 2019. www.festival-lumiere.org. September 20, 2019.
32. News: 19 March 2022 . HOLLYWOOD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO HONOR ICONIC DIRECTOR FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA WITH STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME . Hollywood Chamber of Commerce . live . 23 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220318163602/https://walkoffame.com/press_releases/francisfordcoppola/ . 18 March 2022.
33. https://www.broadwaynews.com/kennedy-center-announces-47th-class-of-honorees/#:~:text=The%20annual%20gala%2C%20scheduled%20for,artists%20from%20around%20the%20world. Kennedy Center Announces 47th Class of Honorees
34. Web site: 25 Most Influential Directors of All-Time (ranked) – MovieMaker Magazine . October 18, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090205055433/http://www.filmsite.org/directors.html . February 5, 2009 . live.
35. Web site: Top Director All Time List . https://web.archive.org/web/20070322214928/http://movies.toptenreviews.com/directors/list_all_time_director.htm . dead . March 22, 2007 . October 18, 2010.
36. Web site: Entertainment Weekly's 50 Greatest Directors . October 27, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100930152431/http://www.listal.com/list/entertainment-weeklys-50-greatest-directors. September 30, 2010. dead.
37. Web site: 101 Greatest Screenplays. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101130121021/http://wga.org/content/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=1807 . November 30, 2010.
38. Web site: The Directors' Top Ten Directors. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120517155218/http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/directors-directors.html. May 17, 2012. October 18, 2010.
39. Web site: The Critics' Top Ten Directors. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100819103438/http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/critics-directors.html. August 19, 2010. October 18, 2010.
40. Web site: Sight & Sound | Modern Times . BFI . January 25, 2012 . September 9, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181013200533/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/63 . October 13, 2018 . dead .
41. Web site: Greatest Film Directors and Their Best Films . . April 19, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150419022028/http://www.filmsite.org/directors1.html. April 19, 2015 .
42. Web site: Greatest Film Directors. filmsite.org.
43. Web site: The Greatest Directors Ever by Total Film Magazine . . April 19, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140702113557/http://www.filmsite.org/greatdirectors-totalfilm.html. July 2, 2014 .
44. https://archive.today/20120720112517/http://www.belize.gov.bz/ct.asp?xItem=1703&ctNode=22&mp=26 Honorary Consulates of Belize
45. Web site: OSCARS LISTS: RECORDS AND CURIOSITIES . Peter . Hobbs . EUdesign . December 31, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141225210206/http://www.eudesign.com/oscars/osc-curi.htm . December 25, 2014 . live.