Francis Ford Coppola is a screenwriter.
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed , produced and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola . 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 Cotton Club (film) . The film was co-written ( with William Kennedy ) and directed by Francis Ford Coppola , choreographed by Henry LeTang , and starred Richard Gere , Gregory Hines , Diane Lane , and Lonette McKee . The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American crime film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay co-written with Mario Puzo , starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro .