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Francis Ford Coppola , (born April 7, 1939) is an Italian-American film director, producer and screenwriter. Widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors, In 1970, Coppola won the Oscar for best original screenplay as co-writer, with Edmund H. North, of ''Patton'' (1970). His directorial prominence was cemented with the release of ''The Godfather'' in 1972. The film revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre, earning praise from both critics and the public before winning three Academy Awards—including his second Oscar (Best Adapted Screenplay, with Mario Puzo), Best Picture, and his first nomination for Best Director. Coppola followed with ''The Godfather Part II'' in 1974, which became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Highly regarded by critics, it brought him three more Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture, and made him the second director, after Billy Wilder, to be honored three times for the same film. ''The Conversation'', which he directed, produced and wrote, was released that same year, winning the Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. He next directed 1979's ''Apocalypse Now''. Notorious for its over-long and strenuous production, the film was nonetheless critically acclaimed for its vivid and stark depiction of the Vietnam War, winning the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Coppola is one of only eight filmmakers to win two Palme d'Or awards. While a number of Coppola's ventures in the 1980s and 1990s were critically lauded, he has never quite achieved the same commercial success with films as in the 1970s.

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