Francis Ford Coppola (Detroit, April 7, 1939) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer, and a central figure of the New Hollywood movement. His career is inextricably linked to the masterpieces he created in the 1970s, such as *The Godfather* saga, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film and three Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay) for *The Godfather Part II*. In the same decade, he also directed *The Conversation* (1974) and the war epic *Apocalypse Now* (1979), works for which he won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival twice, a feat achieved by very few directors. His vast and varied filmography also includes titles such as *The Outsiders* and *Bram Stoker's Dracula*. A winner of five Academy Awards in total, throughout his long career he has also received numerous career honors, including the Golden Lion in Venice and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy.