Roman Coppola

Roman Coppola

Born: April 22, 1965
in 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.

Movies for Roman Coppola...

Isle of Dogs
Title: Isle of Dogs
Character: Igor (voice)
Released: March 23, 2018
Type: Movie
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
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The Family Whistle
Title: The Family Whistle
Character: Self
Released: May 19, 2016
Type: Movie
The famed Coppola family of filmmakers and musicians descends from Agostino Coppola, a poor immigrant from an impoverished village in Southern Italy. Interviews and archival footage portray how the family history has inspired these artists, and how they continue to renew their ties to the land of their origin.
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Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son
Title: Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son
Character: Self
Released: October 8, 2015
Type: Movie
Journalist and critic F. X. Feeney talks with the Coppolas about the production with specific details and interpretations of the original story.
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The Making of The Grand Budapest Hotel
Title: The Making of The Grand Budapest Hotel
Character: Self - Special Photography Unit
Released: June 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes featurette of making 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' from the Criterion Collection release.
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Fight for Your Right Revisited
Title: Fight for Your Right Revisited
Character: Café Patron
Released: April 22, 2011
Type: Movie
Fight for Your Right Revisited stars Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, and Elijah Wood as the "young" Beastie Boys from the past and Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and Will Ferrell as the "old" Beastie Boys from the future. The story begins where the video for "Fight for Your Right (1987)" ended. It features music from the band's album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two.
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
Title: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Character: Squirrel Contractor (voice)
Released: October 23, 2009
Type: Movie
The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.
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Coda: Thirty Years Later
Title: Coda: Thirty Years Later
Character: Self
Released: December 9, 2007
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes look at the trials and tribulations of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola directing his first film in ten years, Youth Without Youth (2007).
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In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Title: In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Character: Self
Released: October 2, 2007
Type: Movie
Director Francis Ford Coppola and production staff reveal the secrets behind the 1992 masterpiece.
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Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'
Title: Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'
Character: Self
Released: October 2, 2007
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes of the 1992 masterpiece with director Francis Ford Coppola.
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Danger: Diabolik - From Fumetti to Film
Title: Danger: Diabolik - From Fumetti to Film
Character: Self
Released: June 14, 2005
Type: Movie
Famous comic book artist Stephen R. Bissette, creator of DC Comic Book character "The Swamp Thing" and co-creator of the comic character "Constantine" teaches film appreciation and the art of comic book illustration in rural Vermont. Bissette is a life-long fan of DANGER: DIABOLIK and in "From Fumetti to Film," Bissette gives us a guided tour of how, in his own words, DANGER: DIABOLIK was "...the best adaptation of comic book to feature film bar none." His concepts of how the apparent 2-dimensional world of comic book illustrations were faithfully, but imaginatively re-interpreted by director Mario Bava are enhanced with side by side comparisons of the original comic book images laid next to film clips. Other films and television adaptations of comic books in that era were less successful, according to Bissette.
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Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Title: Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Character: Self
Released: April 30, 2004
Type: Movie
Mario Bava Operazione Paura", hosted by Joe Dante, is an hommage of the Master of the Terror, the italian director Mario Bava
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Lost on Location: Behind the Scenes of 'Lost in Translation'
Title: Lost on Location: Behind the Scenes of 'Lost in Translation'
Character: Self
Released: February 3, 2004
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes documentary shot during the making of Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation (2003)
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The Making of The Virgin Suicides
Title: The Making of The Virgin Suicides
Character: Self
Released: December 19, 2000
Type: Movie
While Sofia Coppola directed her first feature, her mother, the artist and filmmaker Eleanor Coppola, was there to document the experience.
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Title: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Character: Senate Guard (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge against the Jedi.
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Torrance Rises
Title: Torrance Rises
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A mockumentary chronicling the Torrance Community Dance Group (from Fatboy Slim's "Praise You" video) on their road to the MTV Video Music Awards.
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Bed, Bath and Beyond
Title: Bed, Bath and Beyond
Released: January 6, 1996
Type: Movie
Dominique is desperate to to play the title role in her husband Jean Claude's bio-pic "No Sunrise for Selena," but why won't Jean Claude cast his voluptuous British bombshell wife as the beloved Tejano pop star? Could it be the influence of his Latina temptress of a maid, Isobelle? Somewhere among big houses and bad shoes, bulimic husbands and waxers with whips is... Bed Bath and Beyond.
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Title: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Character: Self
Released: November 27, 1991
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.
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The Godfather Part II
Title: The Godfather Part II
Character: Sonny Corleone as a Boy (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1974
Type: Movie
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
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The Godfather
Title: The Godfather
Character: Boy on Street Who Attended Funeral (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1972
Type: Movie
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
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You're a Big Boy Now
Title: You're a Big Boy Now
Character: Baby Boy in Carriage (uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1966
Type: Movie
Post-teen virgin moves to New York City, falls for a cold-hearted beauty, then finds true love with a loyal lass.