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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 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.