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| Born | Roman François Coppola (1965-04-22)April 22, 1965 (age 60) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
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| Years active | 1983–present |
| Spouse | Jennifer Furches |
| Children | 3 |
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| Family | Coppola |
Roman François Coppola (born April 22, 1965) is an American filmmaker and music video director. He is the son ofFrancis Ford andEleanor Coppola, and is known for his film collaborations withWes Anderson.
Coppola serves as president of film companyAmerican Zoetrope. He is also the founder and owner of The Directors Bureau, a commercial and music video production company.[1]
Roman Coppola is the son of documentary filmmaker, artist, and writerEleanor Coppola (née Neil) and directorFrancis Ford Coppola.[2]
He and Sofia Coppola formed a production company Commercial Pictures in 1988, with funding fromAmerican Zoetrope. He produced three filmsClownhouse,The Spirit of '76 andBallad of a Gunfighter under the name.[3]
Coppola began his directing career by overseeingin-camera visual effects and second unit direction for Francis Ford Coppola'sBram Stoker’s Dracula, which garnered aBAFTA Award nomination for Visual Effects. He has continued to do second unit direction throughout his career, including his father'sJack,The Rainmaker,Youth Without Youth,Tetro, andMegalopolis; collaborator Wes Anderson'sThe Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou andThe Darjeeling Limited; and his sisterSofia Coppola'sThe Virgin Suicides andMarie 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 forThe Strokes' 2001 debut album,Is This It, as well as "12:51" forRoom on Fire. His other music videos include clips forDaft Punk,Lilys,Moby,The Presidents of the United States of America,Ween,Green Day, andFatboy Slim. His music video forPhoenix's "Funky Squaredance" was invited into the permanent collection at the New YorkMuseum of Modern Art. He has also been a supporter of cousinJason Schwartzman's musical side project, Coconut Records.
He also directed a commercial forLevi's White Tab in 1997.[4]
His first feature film,CQ, premiered at the2001 Cannes Film Festival[5] 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. The film holds a 66% rating onRotten Tomatoes, based on 76 reviews. The site's consensus reads: "CQ is a stylish and fun homage to campy 1960s flicks".[6]Metacritic gave the film a 56/100 "mixed or average" approval rating based on 26 reviews.[7]
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 includedBill Murray andJason Schwartzman.[8] Reviews for the film tended toward the negative. Nathan Rabin ofThe A.V. Club gave the movie an F, saying that "it isn't a movie so much as a feature-length perfume commercial for a Charlie Sheen signature cologne with gorgeous packaging and absolutely nothing inside."[9] TheDallas Observer said that the film "might generously be described as cut-and-paste – or more accurately as 'throw stuff to the wall and see what sticks'" and it was "a clunker".[10]The New York Daily News gaveCharles Swan III one star out of five, saying that "you want to swat it away" and that "maybe with this out of his [Coppola's] system, he'll think up something better."[11]Time said that the film "does not lead to a deeper understanding of Charlie Sheen. It does, however, demonstrate his compulsion for poor judgment and bad choices. But weren't we already convinced of that?"[12]Lisa Schwarzbaum, reviewer forEntertainment Weekly, gave the film a C and a milder response, writing, "The idea of this home-movie-with-higher-production-values directed by Roman Coppola is no less sweet for being unoriginal ... The execution, on the other hand, is perilously self-absorbed, a private party involving friends, family, too many fantasy sequences, and an abundance of costume and set design to create a notion of a stylized L.A. spritzed with eau dePlayboy."[13]
In 2009, he directed series of commercials for the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G mobile phone line.[14]
In 2015, he directed aState Farm commercial.[15]
In 2018, he co-wrote the story forWes Anderson'sadultstop-motion animatedscience-fiction drama filmIsle of Dogs, which was released to critical acclaim for its animation, story, musical score, and deadpan humor.Richard Roeper of theChicago Sun-Times gave the film three and a half stars out of four, praising it for taking risks, and saying: "It's smart and different and sometimes deliberately odd and really funny—rarely in a laugh-out-loud way, more in a smile-and-nod-I-get-the-joke kind of way."[16]
In 2021, he again collaborated withWes Anderson for the filmThe French Dispatch, he co-wrote the story and served as an executive producer. It received generally positive reviews. David Rooney ofThe Hollywood Reporter praised the "hand-crafted visual delights and eccentric performances" and wrote: "WhileThe French Dispatch might seem like an anthology of vignettes without a strong overarching theme, every moment is graced by Anderson's love for the written word and the oddball characters who dedicate their professional lives to it".[17] Writing forThe Guardian, Peter Bradshaw said: "It might not be at the very zenith of what he can achieve but for sheer moment-by-moment pleasure, and for laughs, this is a treat".[18] It was mentioned in lists of the best films of the year byThe New Yorker (#1),[19]The Forward (the best movie),[20]IndieWire (#6),[21]Esquire (#38),[22]New Musical Express (#11),[23]British Film Institute (#23)[24] andVogue (unlisted).[25]
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, Directors Bureau.[26][27]
His company, Pacific Tote Company, produces a line of beach bags which are handmade inCalifornia and known for their signature multicolor designs.[28]
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
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| 1983 | Rumble Fish | No | No | Associate | |
| 1989 | Clownhouse | No | No | Executive | |
| 1990 | The Spirit of '76 | No | Story | Executive | |
| 2002 | CQ | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2007 | The Darjeeling Limited | No | Yes | Yes | Co-writer withWes Anderson andJason Schwartzman |
| 2010 | Somewhere | No | No | Yes | |
| 2012 | Moonrise Kingdom | No | Yes | No | Co-writer with Wes Anderson |
| On the Road | No | No | Yes | ||
| A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2013 | The Bling Ring | No | No | Yes | |
| 2017 | The Beguiled | No | No | Yes | |
| 2018 | Isle of Dogs | No | Story | No | Story with Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman andKunichi Nomura |
| 2020 | On the Rocks | No | No | Executive | |
| 2021 | The French Dispatch | No | Story | Executive | Story with Wes Anderson,Hugo Guinness and Jason Schwartzman |
| 2022 | The Seven Faces of Jane | No | No | Yes | |
| 2023 | Fairyland | No | No | Executive | |
| Asteroid City | No | Story | Executive | Story with Wes Anderson | |
| 2025 | The Phoenician Scheme | No | Story | Executive | Story with Wes Anderson |
| Year | Title | Second Unit Director | Other | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Yes | Visual effects director | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1996 | Jack | Yes | No | |
| 1997 | The Rainmaker | Yes | No | |
| 1999 | The Virgin Suicides | Yes | No | Sofia Coppola |
| 2003 | Lost in Translation | No | Additional director | |
| 2004 | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Yes | No | Wes Anderson |
| 2006 | Marie Antoinette | Yes | No | Sofia Coppola |
| 2007 | The Darjeeling Limited | Yes | No | Wes Anderson |
| Youth Without Youth | Yes | No | Francis Ford Coppola | |
| 2009 | Tetro | Yes | No | |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | No | Special photography unit | Wes Anderson |
| 2023 | Priscilla | Yes | No | Sofia Coppola |
| 2024 | Megalopolis | Yes | No | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 2025 | Marc by Sofia | No | Cinematographer | Sofia Coppola |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1966 | You're a Big Boy Now | Baby boy in carriage | Uncredited |
| 1972 | The Godfather | Boy on street who attended funeral | |
| 1974 | The Godfather Part II | Sonny Corleone as a boy | |
| 1979 | Apocalypse Now | Francis de Marais | Redux version only |
| 1999 | Gunfighter | Bandido | |
| Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace | Senate Guard | Uncredited | |
| 2009 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Squirrel Contractor | Voice |
| 2018 | Isle of Dogs | Igor |
| Year | Title | Director | Executive producer | Writer | Notes |
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| 2002 | $2 Bill | Yes | No | No | Episode: "The Strokes" |
| 2013 | Arcade Fire in Here Comes the Night Time | Yes | No | No | Television special |
| 2014–2018 | Mozart in the Jungle | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2015 | A Very Murray Christmas | Associate | Yes | No | Television special |
| 2020 | Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special | Yes | Yes | No | Co-directed withHamish Hamilton, Television special |
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Other credit(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Bed, Bath and Beyond | No | No | No | Actor, cinematographer | |
| 1999 | Torrance Rises | No | No | No | Cinematographer | |
| 2011 | Fight for Your Right Revisited | No | No | No | Actor | Role: Café Patron |
| 2012 | ¡El Tonto | No | No | Yes | ||
| Modern/Love | No | No | Yes | |||
| The Mirror Between Us | No | No | Yes | |||
| Eugene | No | No | Executive | |||
| Die Again, Undead One | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2013 | Castello Cavalcanti | No | No | Yes | ||
| 2016 | Mommeostasis | Yes | No | No | Commercial forProgressive Corporation | |
| 2023 | The Swan | No | No | No | Cinematographer |
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Levi's White Tab: Daytrippers | Yes | No | |
| 2004 | Burger King:Ugoff | Yes | No | |
| 2009 | T-Mobile: Icons, Comedians, Musicians | Yes | No | Series of commercials for the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G mobile phone line |
| 2010 | Stella Artois: Apartomatic | Yes | No | Co-directed withWes Anderson |
| 2012 | Cousin Ben Troop Screening with Jason Schwartzman | No | Yes | Promotional short forMoonrise Kingdom, co-written with Wes Anderson |
| 2013 | Prada: Candy | Yes | No | Co-directed with Wes Anderson |
| 2015 | Magic Jingle Elvis | Yes | No | State Farm commercial |
| 2017 | L'Oréal Paris | Yes | No | L'Oréal Paris commercial for new Elvive haircare line |
In 2019, Coppola was invited to join theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[29]
| Association | Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref(s) |
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| Academy Awards | 2013 | Best Original Screenplay (Shared withWes Anderson) | Moonrise Kingdom | Nominated | [30] |
| BAFTA Awards | 1994 | Best Special Effects (Shared with Gary Gutierrez,Michael Lantieri, and Gene Warren Jr.) | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Nominated | [31] |
| Grammy Awards | 1997 | Best Music Video, Short Form | "Walking Contradiction" | Nominated | [32] |
| NYFCO Award | 2007 | Best Screenplay (Shared with Wes Anderson andJason Schwartzman) | The Darjeeling Limited | Won | [33] |
| Rome Film Festival | 2012 | Golden Marc'Aurelio Award | A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III | Nominated | [34] |
