Roman Coppola

Known for WritingBorn 1965-04-22 (age 61)Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Green Day: International Supervideos!

Lost on Location: Behind the Scenes of 'Lost in Translation'

The Godfather

The Godfather Part II

The Work of Director Spike Jonze

Here Comes the Night Time

Apocalypse Now

In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'

Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'

Torrance Rises

Isle of Dogs

Free Tibet

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Moonrise Kingdom

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

Mozart in the Jungle

The Strokes: MTV $2 Bill Concert

Lost in Translation

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Lumière, Le Cinéma!

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

The Darjeeling Limited

The Making of The Virgin Suicides

Castello Cavalcanti

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

The Virgin Suicides

On the Set of CQ

The Swan

The Rainmaker

Priscilla

Rumble Fish

Tetro

Marie Antoinette

Megadoc

The Phoenician Scheme

Fight for Your Right Revisited

Asteroid City

The Last Showgirl

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

Cousin Ben Troop Screening

The Linguini Incident

D.A.F.T.

Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special

The Black Stallion Returns

On the Rocks

Marc by Sofia