Roman Coppola
Roman François Coppola (April 22, 1965) is the son of Francis Ford Coppola and an American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and entrepreneur. With the 2012 film Moonrise Kingdom, he and co-writer Wes Anderson were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His television series Mozart in the Jungle won the 2016 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. In 2019, Coppola was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Coppola serves as president of the San Francisco-based film company American Zoetrope. He is also the founder and owner of The Directors Bureau, a commercial and music video production company. Coppola began his directing career by overseeing in-camera visual effects and second unit direction for Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which garnered a BAFTA Award nomination for Visual Effects. He has continued to do second unit direction throughout his career, including his father's Jack, The Rainmaker, Youth Without Youth, and Tetro; collaborator Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited; and his sister Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides and Marie Antoinette.
In the 1990s, Coppola established himself as an influential music video and commercial director. Through his production company, The Directors Bureau, he directed all four music videos for The Strokes' 2001 debut album, Is This It, as well as "12:51" for Room on Fire. His other music videos include clips for Daft Punk, Lilys, Moby, The Presidents of the United States of America, Ween, Green Day, and Fatboy Slim. His music video for Phoenix's "Funky Squaredance" was invited into the permanent collection at the New York Museum of Modern Art. He has also been a supporter of cousin Jason Schwartzman's musical side project, Coconut Records.
His first feature film, CQ, premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and was well-received critically. Set in Paris in 1969, CQ centers on a young film editor trying to juggle his personal and professional life while simultaneously juggling a science fiction adventure and his own personal art film. Coppola's second feature, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, debuted in 2012 at the Rome Film Festival. Charlie Sheen starred as the title character, a graphic designer dealing with a break-up. The cast also included Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman. Reviews for the film tended toward the negative.
Coppola is also an inventor and entrepreneur, responsible for the Photobubble Company, Pacific Tote Company, and a number of projects through the "Special Projects" arm of his production company.
| Known For | Writing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0726 |
| Birthday | 1965-04-22 |
| Place of Birth | Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
| Also Known As | Roman François Coppola, |
2009
Fantastic Mr. Fox
7.813/5883
The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with t...
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
1991
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
7.9/397
A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming o...
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
2011
Fight for Your Right Revisited
6.549/92
Fight for Your Right Revisited stars Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, and Elijah Wood as the "young" Beastie Boys from the past and Jack Black, John C. Reil...
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Fight for Your Right Revisited
2015
Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son
0/0
Journalist and critic F. X. Feeney talks with the Coppolas about the production with specific details and interpretations of the original story.
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Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son
2007
Coda: Thirty Years Later
4.8/5
A behind-the-scenes look at the trials and tribulations of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola directing his first film in ten years, Youth Without Youth (...
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Coda: Thirty Years Later
1972
The Godfather
8.685/22249
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corl...
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The Godfather
2004
Lost on Location: Behind the Scenes of 'Lost in Translation'
7.8/6
Behind the scenes documentary shot during the making of Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003).
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Lost on Location: Behind the Scenes of 'Lost in Translation'
1974
The Godfather Part II
8.571/13455
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone at...
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The Godfather Part II
1996
Bed, Bath and Beyond
6/2
Dominique is desperate to to play the title role in her husband Jean Claude's bio-pic "No Sunrise for Selena," but why won't Jean Claude cast his volu...
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Bed, Bath and Beyond
1999
Torrance Rises
7.7/6
A mockumentary chronicling the Torrance Community Dance Group (from Fatboy Slim's "Praise You" video) on their road to the MTV Video Music Awards.
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Torrance Rises
2004
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
6/1
Mario Bava Operazione Paura", hosted by Joe Dante, is an hommage of the Master of the Terror, the italian director Mario Bava
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Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2018
Isle of Dogs
7.845/5230
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must...
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Isle of Dogs
2016
The Family Whistle
6/0
The famed Coppola family of filmmakers and musicians descends from Agostino Coppola, a poor immigrant from an impoverished village in Southern Italy....
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The Family Whistle
2000
The Making of The Virgin Suicides
7.2/4
While Sofia Coppola directed her first feature, her mother, the artist and filmmaker Eleanor Coppola, was there to document the experience.
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The Making of The Virgin Suicides
2005
Danger: Diabolik - From Fumetti to Film
4/2
Famous comic book artist Stephen R. Bissette, creator of DC Comic Book character "The Swamp Thing" and co-creator of the comic character "Constantine"...
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Danger: Diabolik - From Fumetti to Film
1999
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
6.567/15458
Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for reve...
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
2007
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
8/5
Director Francis Ford Coppola and production staff reveal the secrets behind the 1992 masterpiece.
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In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007
Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'
8/2
Behind the scenes of the 1992 masterpiece with director Francis Ford Coppola.
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Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'
1966
You're a Big Boy Now
6.1/44
Naive library clerk Bernard Chanticleer moves out of his parents’ home and into a chaotic city full of eccentric landlords, meddling parents, and roma...
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You're a Big Boy Now
2012
Die Again, Undead One
0/0
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Die Again, Undead One
2024
Lumière! The Adventure Continues
7/12
The sequel to Lumière! L'aventure commence (Lumière! The Adventure Begins) reveals another hundred Lumière films, all immaculately restored, and aims...
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Lumière! The Adventure Continues
1979
Apocalypse Now
8.267/8797
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist."...
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Apocalypse Now
2025
Megadoc
6.9/5
Presenting a behind-the-scenes account of a visionary at work. From Oscar-nominated Mike Figgis, Megadoc gives audiences an unfiltered and intimate lo...
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