# List of awards and nominations received by Francis Ford Coppola

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 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.
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.

## Major associations
### Academy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1971 | Best Original Screenplay | Patton | Won |
| 1973 | Best Director | The Godfather | Nominated |
| 1973 | Best Adapted Screenplay | The Godfather | Won |
| 1974 | Best Picture | American Graffiti | Nominated |
| 1975 | Best Picture | The Conversation | Nominated |
| 1975 | Best Original Screenplay | The Conversation | Nominated |
| 1975 | Best Picture | The Godfather Part II | Won |
| 1975 | Best Director | The Godfather Part II | Won |
| 1975 | Best Adapted Screenplay | The Godfather Part II | Won |
| 1980 | Best Picture | Apocalypse Now | Nominated |
| 1980 | Best Director | Apocalypse Now | Nominated |
| 1980 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Apocalypse Now | Nominated |
| 1991 | Best Picture | The Godfather Part III | Nominated |
| 1991 | Best Director | The Godfather Part III | Nominated |
| 2011 | Irving G. Thalberg Award | Irving G. Thalberg Award | Honored |

### BAFTA Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| British Academy Film Awards |||||
| 1975 | Best Director | The Conversation | Nominated |
| 1975 | Best Screenplay | The Conversation | Nominated |
| 1980 | Best Director | Apocalypse Now | Won |
| 1980 | Best Music | Apocalypse Now | Nominated |

### Emmy Award

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| Primetime Emmy Awards |||||
| 1997 | Outstanding Limited Series | The Odyssey | Nominated |
| 1998 | Outstanding Limited Series | Moby Dick | Nominated |

### Golden Globe Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1973 | Best Director | The Godfather | Won |
| 1973 | Best Screenplay | The Godfather | Won |
| 1975 | Best Director | The Conversation | Nominated |
| 1975 | Best Screenplay | The Conversation | Nominated |
| 1975 | Best Director | The Godfather Part II | Nominated |
| 1975 | Best Screenplay | The Godfather Part II | Nominated |
| 1980 | Best Director | Apocalypse Now | Won |
| 1985 | Best Director | The Cotton Club | Nominated |
| 1991 | Best Director | The Godfather Part III | Nominated |
| 1991 | Best Screenplay | The Godfather Part III | Nominated |
| 1998 | Best Limited Series or Movie | The Odyssey | Nominated |

### Grammy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 1980 | Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | Apocalypse Now | Nominated | |

## Industry awards

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

## Miscellaneous awards

| Organizations | Year | Category | Work | Result |
| CableACE Award | 1987 | Outstanding Directing in a Dramatic Special | Faerie Tale Theatre | Nominated |
| CableACE Award | 1993 | Outstanding Animated Programming | The Junky's Christmas | Nominated |
| Cahiers du cinéma | 1984 | Best Film | Rumble Fish | 6th place |
| Cahiers du cinéma | 1990 | Best Film | The Godfather Part III | 4th place |
| Cahiers du cinéma | 2009 | Best Film | Tetro | 6th place |
| Cahiers du cinéma | 2011 | Best Film | Twixt | 3rd place |
| César Award | 1979 | Best Foreign Film | Apocalypse Now | Nominated |
| David di Donatello | 1979 | Best Foreign Director | Apocalypse Now | Won |
| David di Donatello | 1980 | Best Foreign Producer | Kagemusha | Won |
| Edgar Allen Poe Award | 1974 | Best Motion Picture Screenplay | The Conversation | Nominated |
| Golden Raspberry Award | 2024 | Worst Picture | Megalopolis | Nominated |
| Golden Raspberry Award | 2024 | Worst Director | Megalopolis | Won |
| Golden Raspberry Award | 2024 | Worst Screenplay | Megalopolis | Nominated |
| Hugo Award | 1992 | Best Dramatic Presentation | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Nominated |
| International Confederation of Art Cinemas | 2009 | CICAE Award | Tetro | Nominated |
| International Federation of Film Critics | 1979 | FIPRESCI Prize | Apocalypse Now | Won |
| Japan Academy Film Prize | 1984 | Outstanding Foreign Language Film | The Cotton Club | Nominated |
| Kansas City Film Critics Circle | 1972 | Best Director | The Godfather | Won |
| Kansas City Film Critics Circle | 1973 | Best Film | American Graffiti | Nominated |
| Kansas City Film Critics Circle | 1974 | Best Director | The Conversation | Won |
| Kansas City Film Critics Circle | 1974 | Best Director | The Godfather Part II | Won |
| London Film Critics Circle Award | 1979 | Best Film | Apocalypse Now | Won |
| National Board of Review | 1974 | Best Director | The Conversation | Won |
| National Society of Film Critics Award | 1974 | Best Director | The Godfather Part II | Won |
| San Sebastián International Film Festival | 1969 | Golden Shell | The Rain People | Won |
| Moscow International Film Festival | 1983 | Golden Prize | The Outsiders | Nominated |
| Moscow International Film Festival | 1987 | Golden Prize | Gardens of Stone | Nominated |
| San Sebastián International Film Festival | 1983 | FIPRESCI Prize | Rumble Fish | Won |
| San Sebastián International Film Festival | 1983 | OCIC Award | Rumble Fish | Won |
| Satellite Awards | 1997 | Best Miniseries or Movies for Television | The Odyssey | Nominated |
| Saturn Award | 1992 | Best Direction | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Won |
| Saturn Award | 1992 | Best Horror Film | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Won |
| Saturn Award | 1994 | Best Horror Film | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Nominated |
| Political Film Society | 1987 | Peace Award | Gardens of Stone | Nominated |
| Political Film Society | 1997 | Democracy Award | The Rainmaker | Nominated |
| USC Scripter Award | 1997 | Best Screenplay | The Rainmaker | Nominated |
| Young Artist Awards | 1983 | Best Family Feature Motion Picture | The Outsiders | Nominated |
| Young Artist Awards | 1996 | Best Family Feature – Musical or Comedy | Jack | Nominated |
| WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival | 1971 | Grand Remi Award - Feature Film | THX 1138 | Won |

## Honorary awards

| Organizations | Year | Award | Result |
| Berlin International Film Festival | 1991 | Berlinale Camera | Honored |
| Venice Film Festival | 1992 | Golden Lion – Honorary Award | Honored |
| American Academy of Achievement | 1994 | Golden Plate Award | Honored |
| Directors Guild of America | 1998 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Honored |
| San Sebastián International Film Festival. | 2002 | 50th Anniversary Award | Honored |
| Film Society of Lincoln Center | 2002 | Gala Tribute | Honored |
| Denver Film Festival | 2003 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Honored |
| Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival | 2007 | Honorary Award | Honored |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | 2010 | Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | Honored |
| San Diego Comic Con | 2012 | Inkpot Award | Honored |
| Praemium Imperiale | 2013 | Statue | Honored |
| California Hall of Fame | 2014 | Inductee | Honored |
| Princess of Asturias Award | 2015 | Statue | Honored |
| Order of Intellectual Efficience of Morocco | 2015 | Gold Medal | Honored |
| Hofstra University | 2016 | Phi Beta Kappa Inductee | Honored |
| Lumière Film Festival | 2019 | Lumière Award | Honored |
| Hollywood Walk of Fame | 2022 | Inductee | Honored |
| Kennedy Center Honor | 2024 | Inductee | Honored |

## 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.
* 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 | Academy Awards | BAFTA Awards | BAFTA Awards | Golden Globe Awards | Golden Globe Awards |
| Year | Film | Nominations | Wins | Nominations | Wins | Nominations | Wins |
| 1966 | You're a Big Boy Now | 1 | | 1 | | 3 | |
| 1966 | 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 |
| 1974 | The Conversation | 3 | | 5 | 2 | 4 | |
| 1974 | 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 | Tucker: The Man and His Dream | 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 | Total | 80 | 23 | 39 | 11 | 56 | 17 |