This link on Wikipedia provides a filmography of Francis Ford Coppola, who is a five-time Academy Award winning director, producer, and screenwriter, and also a vintner, magazine publisher, and a hotelier. His most famous films that he is known for is his Godfather trilogy, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now. This site explains his life and film career from 1960 to the present. He had received his MFA in film directing from the UCLA Film School and started making movies such as Dementia 13, and later became a renowned director by his movies Patton and The Godfather. He directed and produced many movies. His most recent movie that he directed was The Rainmaker in 1997. Coppola was in the process of creating a script for the fourth Godfather with Mario Puzo, but then abandoned the project due to the death of Puzo in July 1999, stating that "he couldn't do it without his friend."
"The Godfather was a very under-appreciated movie when we were making it. I almost got fired." - Coppola
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