Roman Coppola
Date of birth: 1965-04-22
Place of birth: Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Known for: Writing
Also known as: Roman François Coppola
Biography
Roman François Coppola (April 22, 1965) is the son of Francis Ford Coppola and an American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and entrepreneur. With the 2012 film Moonrise Kingdom, he and co-writer Wes Anderson were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His television series Mozart in the Jungle won the 2016 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. In 2019, Coppola was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Coppola serves as president of the San Francisco-based film company American Zoetrope. He is also the founder and owner of The Directors Bureau, a commercial and music video production company. Coppola began his directing career by overseeing in-camera visual effects and second unit direction for Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which garnered a BAFTA Award nomination for Visual Effects. He has continued to do second unit direction throughout his career, including his father's Jack, The Rainmaker, Youth Without Youth, and Tetro; collaborator Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited; and his sister Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides and Marie 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 for The Strokes' 2001 debut album, Is This It, as well as "12:51" for Room on Fire. His other music videos include clips for Daft Punk, Lilys, Moby, The Presidents of the United States of America, Ween, Green Day, and Fatboy Slim. His music video for Phoenix's "Funky Squaredance" was invited into the permanent collection at the New York Museum of Modern Art. He has also been a supporter of cousin Jason Schwartzman's musical side project, Coconut Records. His first feature film, CQ, premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival 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. 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 included Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman. Reviews for the film tended toward the negative. 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.
Movie Credits
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009-10-14
The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. T
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991-11-27
A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming
Fight for Your Right Revisited
2011-04-22
Fight for Your Right Revisited stars Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, and Elijah Wood as the "young" Beast
Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son
2015-10-08
Journalist and critic F. X. Feeney talks with the Coppolas about the production with specific detail
Coda: Thirty Years Later
2007-12-09
A behind-the-scenes look at the trials and tribulations of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola directing
The Godfather
1972-03-14
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family
Lost on Location: Behind the Scenes of 'Lost in Translation'
2004-02-03
Behind the scenes documentary shot during the making of Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003).
The Godfather Part II
1974-12-20
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in
Bed, Bath and Beyond
1996-01-06
Dominique is desperate to to play the title role in her husband Jean Claude's bio-pic "No Sunrise fo
Torrance Rises
1999-01-01
A mockumentary chronicling the Torrance Community Dance Group (from Fatboy Slim's "Praise You" video
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004-04-30
Mario Bava Operazione Paura", hosted by Joe Dante, is an hommage of the Master of the Terror, the it
Isle of Dogs
2018-03-23
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an
The Family Whistle
2016-05-19
The famed Coppola family of filmmakers and musicians descends from Agostino Coppola, a poor immigran
The Making of The Virgin Suicides
2000-12-19
While Sofia Coppola directed her first feature, her mother, the artist and filmmaker Eleanor Coppola
Danger: Diabolik - From Fumetti to Film
2005-06-14
Famous comic book artist Stephen R. Bissette, creator of DC Comic Book character "The Swamp Thing" a
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999-05-19
Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evi
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007-10-02
Director Francis Ford Coppola and production staff reveal the secrets behind the 1992 masterpiece.
Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'
2007-10-02
Behind the scenes of the 1992 masterpiece with director Francis Ford Coppola.
You're a Big Boy Now
1966-12-09
Naive library clerk Bernard Chanticleer moves out of his parents’ home and into a chaotic city full
Die Again, Undead One
2012-11-30
Lumière! The Adventure Continues
2024-11-22
The sequel to Lumière! L'aventure commence (Lumière! The Adventure Begins) reveals another hundred L
Apocalypse Now
1979-05-19
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, offi
Megadoc
2025-09-19
Presenting a behind-the-scenes account of a visionary at work. From Oscar-nominated Mike Figgis, Meg