Francis Ford Coppola is a film director.
Francis Ford Coppola . Highly regarded by critics , it brought him three more Academy Awards : Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Director and Best Picture , and made him the second director , after Billy Wilder , to be honored three times for the same film . The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy , based on Mario Puzo 's best-selling novel of the same name . The Outsiders is a 1983 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola , an adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton .