The following is a list of awards and nominations received by American director, producer, and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola.

Coppola is the winner of multiple film awards both nationally and internationally including Academy Awards for Patton. His movies The Godfather, The Godfather Part II and Apocalypse Now are often cited among the greatest films of all time.^[1]

Academy Awards

Best Picture

Year	Nominated work	Result
1973	American Graffiti	Nominated
1974	The Conversation	Nominated
1974	The Godfather Part II	Won
1979	Apocalypse Now	Nominated
1990	The Godfather Part III	Nominated

Best Director

Year	Nominated work	Result
1972	The Godfather	Nominated
1974	The Godfather Part II	Won
1979	Apocalypse Now	Nominated
1990	The Godfather Part III	Nominated

Best Original Screenplay

Year	Nominated work	Result
1970	Patton	Won
1974	The Conversation	Nominated

Best Adapted Screenplay

Year	Nominated work	Result
1972	The Godfather	Won
1974	The Godfather Part II	Won
1979	Apocalypse Now	Nominated

British Academy Film Awards

Best Director

Year	Nominated work	Result
1974	The Conversation	Nominated
1979	Apocalypse Now	Won

Best Screenplay

Year	Nominated work	Result
1974	The Conversation	Nominated

Best Music

Year	Nominated work	Result
1979	Apocalypse Now	Nominated

Golden Globe Awards

Best Motion Picture – Drama

Year	Nominated work	Result
1972	The Godfather	Won
1974	The Conversation	Nominated
1974	The Godfather Part II	Nominated
1979	Apocalypse Now	Nominated
1990	The Godfather Part III	Nominated

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Year	Nominated work	Result
1973	American Graffiti	Won

Best Director

Year	Nominated work	Result
1972	The Godfather	Won
1974	The Conversation	Nominated
1974	The Godfather Part II	Nominated
1979	Apocalypse Now	Won
1984	The Cotton Club	Nominated
1990	The Godfather Part III	Nominated

Best Screenplay

Year	Nominated work	Result
1972	The Godfather	Won
1974	The Conversation	Nominated
1974	The Godfather Part II	Nominated
1990	The Godfather Part III	Nominated

Best Original Score

Year	Nominated work	Result
1979	Apocalypse Now	Won

Cannes Film Festival

Palme d'Or

Year	Nominated work	Result
1966	You're a Big Boy Now	Nominated
1974	The Conversation	Won
1979	Apocalypse Now	Won

Directors Guild of America Award

Outstanding Directing – Feature Film

Year	Nominated work	Result
1972	The Godfather	Won
1974	The Conversation	Nominated
1974	The Godfather Part II	Won
1979	Apocalypse Now	Nominated
1990	The Godfather Part III	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award

Outstanding Limited Series

Year	Nominated work	Result
1997	The Odyssey	Nominated
1998	Moby Dick	Nominated

Writers Guild of America Award

Best American Screenplay – Comedy

Year	Nominated work	Result
1966	You're a Big Boy Now	Nominated

Best Original Screenplay

Year	Nominated work	Result
1970	Patton	Won
1974	The Conversation	Nominated
1979	Apocalypse Now	Nominated

Best Adapted Screenplay

Year	Nominated work	Result
1972	The Godfather	Won
1974	The Godfather Part II	Won

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award

Best Film

Year	Nominated work	Result
1973	American Graffiti	Nominated

Best Director

Year	Nominated work	Result
1972	The Godfather	Won
1974	The Conversation	Won
1974	The Godfather Part II	Won

Other awards

Year	Nominated work	Award	Result
1969	The Rain People	Golden Shell at San Sebastián International Film Festival	Won
1971	THX 1138	WorldFest-Houston Grand Remi Award for Best of Show - Feature Film	Won
1972	The Godfather	Golden Screen Award, Germany	Won
1972	The Godfather	Best Audio Commentary at DVD Exclusive Awards	Nominated
1974	The Conversation	Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Special Mention	Won
		National Board of Review Award for Best Director	Won
		Video Premiere Award at DVD Exclusive Awards	Nominated
		Best Motion Picture Screenplay	Nominated
	The Godfather Part II	National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director	Won
1979	Apocalypse Now	FIPRESCI Prize	Won
		David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director	Won
		Golden Screen Award, Germany	Won
		London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film	Won
		Best Foreign Language Film at Cinema Brazil Grand Prize (2002)	Nominated
		César Award for Best Foreign Film	Nominated
		Grammy Award for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special	Nominated
1980	Kagemusha	David di Donatello for Best Foreign Producer	Won
1983	The Outsiders	Golden Prize at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival^[2]	Nominated
		Best Family Feature Motion Picture at the Young Artist Awards	Nominated
		Golden Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival	Nominated
	Rumble Fish	FIPRESCI Prize at San Sebastián International Film Festival	Won
	Rumble Fish	OCIC Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival	Won
1984	The Cotton Club	Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film	Nominated
1987	Gardens of Stone	Golden Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival^[3]	Nominated
	Gardens of Stone	Political Film Society Award for Peace	Nominated
	Faerie Tale Theatre	CableACE Award for Outstanding Directing in a Dramatic Special	Nominated
1990	The Godfather Part III	Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera) at Fotogramas de Plata	Won
1990	The Godfather Part III	Cahiers du Cinéma Award for Best Film	4th place
1992	Bram Stoker's Dracula	Saturn Award for Best Direction	Won
		Saturn Award for Best Horror Film	Won
		Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera) at Fotogramas de Plata	Won
		Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation	Nominated
1993	The Junky's Christmas	CableACE Award for Outstanding Animated Programming	Nominated
1994	Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	Saturn Award for Best Horror Film	Nominated
1996	Jack	Best Family Feature – Musical or Comedy at Young Artist Awards	Nominated
1997	The Rainmaker	USC Scripter Award	Nominated
	The Rainmaker	Political Film Society Award for Democracy	Nominated
	The Odyssey	Satellite Award for Best Miniseries or Movies for Television	Nominated
2009	Tetro	CICAE Award	Nominated
2009	Tetro	Cahiers du Cinéma Award for Best Film	6th place
2011	Twixt	Cahiers du Cinéma Award for Best Film	3rd place

Major awards received by Coppola movies

Year	Film	Academy Awards		BAFTA Awards		Golden Globe Awards
Year	Film	Nominations	Wins	Nominations	Wins	Nominations	Wins
1966	You're a Big Boy Now	1		1		3
1966	Is Paris Burning?	2				1
1968	Finian's Rainbow	2				5
1970	Patton	10	7	2		3	2
1972	The Godfather	10	3	5	1	7	6
1973	American Graffiti	5		1		4	2
1974	The Great Gatsby	2	2	3	3	4	3
	The Conversation	3		5	2	4
	The Godfather Part II	11	6	4	1	6
1979	Apocalypse Now	8	2	9	2	4	3
1982	One from the Heart	1
1983	Rumble Fish					1
1984	The Cotton Club	2		2	1	2
1986	Peggy Sue Got Married	3				2
1988	Tucker: The Man and His Dream	3		1	1	1	1
1990	The Godfather Part III	7				7
1992	Bram Stoker's Dracula	4	3	4
1997	The Rainmaker					1
Total		80	23	39	11	56	17

Honors

He featured at No. 17 in MovieMaker magazine's 25 most influential directors of all-time.^[4]
He also ranked No. 9 in TopTenReviews' list of top directors of all time^[5] and at No. 21 in Entertainment Weekly's top 50 directors of all time.^[6]
Four of Coppola's films (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now, and Patton) featured in the Writers Guild of America, West list of 101 greatest screenplays ever.^[7]
Three of his films feature in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies: The Godfather at #2, Apocalypse Now at #28, and The Godfather Part II at #32. The Godfather also ranks at No. 11 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills. The following Coppola films were also nominated for the list: American Graffiti (1973) – Producer, The Conversation (1974) – Director/Producer/Screenwriter, and Patton (1970) – Screenwriter.
In 1991, he was honored with the Berlinale Camera at the Berlin International Film Festival.^[8]
In 1992, he was awarded a Golden Lion – Honorary Award at the Venice Film Festival.^[8] as well as the Inkpot Award at the annual San Diego Comic Con.^[9]
In 1994, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. His Golden Plate was presented by Awards Council member George Lucas.^[10]
In 1998, the Directors Guild of America honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award.^[8]
In the 2002 poll of the Sight & Sound publication, Coppola ranked No. 4 in the Directors' top ten directors of all time^[11] and No. 10 in the Critics' top ten directors of all time.^[12] In a separate poll by the same magazine Coppla was listed at No. 8 on the list of the top ten film directors of modern time.^[13]
He was honored with a special 50th anniversary award for his impressive career at the 2002 San Sebastián International Film Festival.^[8]
The same year he received a gala tribute from Film Society of Lincoln Center.^[8]
In 2003, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Denver Film Festival.^[8]
Coppola was ranked at No. 15 on Empire magazine's "Top 40 Greatest Directors of All-Time" list in 2005.^[14]^[15]
He was given an honorary award at the 2007 Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.^[16]
In 2007, Total Film magazine ranked Coppola at No. 5 on its "100 Greatest Film Directors Ever" list.^[17]
In 2010, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided to honor him with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at the 2nd Governor's Awards in November.^[18] The honor was bestowed on him on November 13, along with honorary Oscars to Jean-Luc Godard, Kevin Brownlow and Eli Wallach.^[19]
On October 16, 2013, he was awarded a Praemium Imperiale in the theater/film category.^[20]^[21]^[22]
Coppola serves as the "Honorary Consul H. E. Francis Ford Coppola" in San Francisco for Belize.^[23]
On October 1, 2014, Coppola was inducted into the California Hall of Fame by Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr.^[24]
Coppola is among only six people in Academy Award history to receive Oscars as a producer, director and screenwriter.^[25]
On May 6, 2015, he was awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, in Oviedo.^[26]
On December 5, 2015, he was decorated with Gold Medal of the Order of Intellectual Efficience of Morocco, in Marrakech.^[27]
In 2019 he was awarded the Lumière Award for contribution to film in Lumière Film Festival, France.^[28]
On March 21, 2022, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.^[29]
He is an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa^[30] through Hofstra University.

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v t e Francis Ford Coppola
Filmography Awards and nominations Bibliography Unrealized projects
Films directed	The Bellboy and the Playgirls (1962) Tonight for Sure (1962) Battle Beyond the Sun (1962) Dementia 13 (1963) You're a Big Boy Now (1966) Finian's Rainbow (1968) The Rain People (1969) The Godfather (1972) The Conversation (1974) The Godfather Part II (1974) Apocalypse Now (1979; Redux, 2001) One from the Heart (1981) The Outsiders (1983) Rumble Fish (1983) The Cotton Club (1984) Captain EO (1986) Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) Gardens of Stone (1987) Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) New York Stories (segment "Life Without Zoë", 1989) The Godfather Part III (1990) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Jack (1996) The Rainmaker (1997) Youth Without Youth (2007) Tetro (2009) Twixt (2011) Distant Vision (2015) Megalopolis (TBA)
Written only	Is Paris Burning? (1966) This Property Is Condemned (1966) Patton (1970) The Great Gatsby (1974)
Produced only	American Graffiti (1973) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) Don Juan DeMarco (1994) The Florentine (1999) The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Enterprises	American Zoetrope Zoetrope: All-Story Rubicon Estate Winery Francis Ford Coppola Presents