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.
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 2nd Annual 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, 2010, along with honorary Oscars to Jean-Luc Godard, Kevin Brownlow and Eli Wallach.
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. 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. In 2025 he received the AFI Life Achievement Award.
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1971 Best Original Screenplay Patton 1973 Best DirectorThe Godfather Best Adapted Screenplay 1974Best Picture American Graffiti 1975The Conversation Best Original Screenplay Best PictureThe Godfather Part II Best Director Best Adapted Screenplay 1980 Best Picture Apocalypse Now Best Director Best Adapted Screenplay 1991 Best Picture The Godfather Part III Best Director 2011Irving G. Thalberg Award
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.British Academy Film Awards1975 Best DirectorThe Conversation Best Screenplay 1980 Best Director Apocalypse Now Best Music
Emmy Award Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.Primetime Emmy Awards 1997Outstanding Limited Series The Odyssey 1998 Moby Dick
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1973 Best DirectorThe Godfather Best Screenplay 1975 Best DirectorThe Conversation Best Screenplay Best DirectorThe Godfather Part II Best Screenplay 1980 Best DirectorApocalypse Now 1985 Best Director The Cotton Club 1991 Best DirectorThe Godfather Part III Best Screenplay 1998 Best Limited Series or Movie The Odyssey
Grammy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1980 Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Apocalypse Now
Industry awards Organizations Year Category Work Result Cannes Film Festival 1966Palme d'Or You're a Big Boy Now 1974 The Conversation 1979 Apocalypse Now 2024 Megalopolis Directors Guild of America Award 1972Outstanding Directing – Feature FilmThe Godfather1974The ConversationThe Godfather Part II 1979Apocalypse Now 1990The Godfather Part IIIWriters Guild of America Award 1966 Best American Screenplay – ComedyYou're a Big Boy Now 1970 Best Original ScreenplayPatton 1972Best Adapted ScreenplayThe Godfather 1974The Godfather Part IIBest Original ScreenplayThe Conversation 1979Apocalypse Now
Miscellaneous awards Organizations Year Category Work Result CableACE Award 1987 Outstanding Directing in a Dramatic Special Faerie Tale Theatre 1993 Outstanding Animated Programming The Junky's Christmas Cahiers du cinéma 1984 Best Film Rumble Fish 1990 2009 Tetro 2011 Twixt César Award 1979 Best Foreign Film Apocalypse Now David di Donatello 1979 Best Foreign Director Apocalypse Now 1980 Best Foreign Producer Kagemusha Edgar Allan Poe Award 1974 Best Motion Picture Screenplay The Conversation Golden Raspberry Award 2024 Worst Picture Megalopolis Worst Director Worst Screenplay Hugo Award 1992 Best Dramatic Presentation Bram Stoker's Dracula International Confederation of Art Cinemas 2009 CICAE Award Tetro International Federation of Film Critics 1979 FIPRESCI Prize Apocalypse Now Japan Academy Film Prize 1984 Outstanding Foreign Language Film Kansas City Film Critics Circle 1972 Best Director The Godfather 1973 Best Film American Graffiti 1974Best Director The Conversation The Godfather Part II London Film Critics Circle Award 1979 Best Film Apocalypse Now National Board of Review 1974 Best Director National Society of Film Critics Award 1974 Best Director San Sebastián International Film Festival 1969 Golden Shell Moscow International Film Festival 1983 Golden Prize 1987 Golden Prize Gardens of Stone San Sebastián International Film Festival 1983 FIPRESCI Prize Rumble Fish 1983 OCIC Award Rumble Fish Satellite Awards 1997 Best Miniseries or Movies for Television The Odyssey Saturn Award 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 for Lifetime Achievement American Academy of Achievement 1994 Golden Plate Award 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 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 2010 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award San Diego Comic Con 2012 Inkpot Award Praemium Imperiale 2013 Statue California Hall of Fame 2014 Inductee Princess of Asturias Award 2015 Statue Order of Intellectual Efficience of Morocco 2015 Gold Medal Hofstra University 2016 Phi Beta Kappa Inductee Lumière Film Festival 2019 Lumière Award Hollywood Walk of Fame 2022 Inductee Morelia International Film Festival2024Inductee Kennedy Center Honor 2024 Inductee Kennedy Center Announces 47th Class of Honorees
Special citations He featured at No. 17 in MovieMaker magazine's 25 most influential directors of all-time. He also ranked No. 9 in TopTenReviews' list of top directors of all time and at No. 21 in Entertainment Weekly's top 50 directors of all time. 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. 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 and No. 10 in the Critics' top ten directors of all time. 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. Coppola was ranked at No. 15 on Empire magazine's "Top 40 Greatest Directors of All-Time" list in 2005. In 2007, Total Film magazine ranked Coppola at No. 5 on its "100 Greatest Film Directors Ever" list. Coppola serves as the "Honorary Consul H. E. Francis Ford Coppola" in San Francisco for Belize. from Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Belize) Coppola is among only six people in Academy Award history to receive Oscars as a producer, director and screenwriter.
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 Now113 Is Paris Burning?21 1968 Finian's Rainbow25 1970 Patton1072321972The Godfather10351761973American Graffiti51421974The Great Gatsby223343The Conversation3524The Godfather Part II1164161979Apocalypse Now8292431982One from the Heart11983Rumble Fish11984The Cotton Club22121986Peggy Sue Got Married321988 Tucker: The Man and His Dream311111990The Godfather Part III771992 Bram Stoker's Dracula4341997The Rainmaker1Total802339115617
See also List of awards and nominations received by Nicolas Cage List of awards and nominations received by Sofia Coppola
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