107-637: The CEC Awards or CEC Medals (Spanish: Medallas del CEC ), whose full name is Medallas del Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos , are awards presented annually by the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos (CEC; transl. Circle of Cinematographic Writers ) to distinguish films, artists, technicians, and writers related to cinema, both Spanish and international. The ceremony held its first edition in 1946, when it awarded prizes in thirteen different categories. The categories have varied over time, and in 2016, there were twenty. The awards went through
214-478: A $ 13 million budget. Coppola reunited with George Lucas, who served as executive producer, and directed Tucker: The Man and His Dream the year after that. The film is a biopic based on the life of Preston Tucker and his attempt to produce and market the Tucker '48 ; Coppola had originally conceived the project as a musical with Marlon Brando leading after the release of The Godfather Part II . Ultimately, it
321-533: A Beckerman Award for his outstanding contributions to the school's theater arts division. While a graduate student, Coppola studied under professor Dorothy Arzner , whose encouragement was later acknowledged as pivotal to Coppola's career. After earning his theater arts degree from Hofstra in 1960, Coppola enrolled in UCLA Film School . There, he directed a short horror film, The Two Christophers , inspired by Edgar Allan Poe 's " William Wilson " and Ayamonn
428-417: A brief draft in one night, incorporating elements from Hitchcock's Psycho , and the result impressed Corman enough to give the go-ahead. On a budget of $ 40,000 ($ 20,000 from Corman and $ 20,000 from another producer who wanted to buy the movie's English rights), Coppola directed Dementia 13 over the course of nine days. The film recouped its expenses and later became a cult film among horror buffs. It
535-549: A chance. He decided to name his future studio "Zoetrope" after receiving a gift of zoetropes from Mogens Scot-Hansen, founder of a studio called Lanterna Film and owner of a famous collection of early motion picture-making equipment. While touring Europe, Coppola was introduced to alternative filmmaking equipment and, inspired by the bohemian spirit of Lanterna Film, decided he would build a deviant studio that would conceive and implement unconventional approaches to filmmaking. Upon his return home, Coppola and George Lucas searched for
642-404: A detailed autobiography entitled Paul Naschy: Memoirs of a Wolf Man (which included his filmography as well). Naschy even traveled to Hollywood briefly in 2003 to appear in two shot-on-video (adult content) horror films directed by Donald F. Glut and Fred Olen Ray , two former horror fans-turned-directors who must have treated him like royalty on the set. (Filming got a bit complicated due to
749-469: A dialogue director for Tower of London (1962), sound man for The Young Racers (1963) and associate producer and one of many uncredited directors for The Terror (1963). Coppola's first feature-length film was Dementia 13 (1963). While on location in Ireland for The Young Racers in 1963, Corman persuaded Coppola to use that film's leftover funds to make a low-budget horror movie. Coppola wrote
856-502: A family of 2nd-degree Italian immigrants. His paternal grandparents came to the United States from Bernalda , Basilicata . His maternal grandfather, popular Italian composer Francesco Pennino, emigrated from Naples , Italy . At the time of Coppola's birth, his father—in addition to being a flautist—was an arranger and assistant orchestra director for The Ford Sunday Evening Hour , an hour-long concert music radio series sponsored by
963-407: A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton . Coppola credited his inspiration for making the film to a suggestion from middle school students who had read the novel. The Outsiders is notable for being the breakout film for a number of young actors who would go on to become major stars. These included major roles for Matt Dillon , Ralph Macchio , and C. Thomas Howell . Also in
1070-462: A film with such a title, as the audience would supposedly believe that, having already seen The Godfather , there was little reason to see an addition to the original film. However, the success of The Godfather Part II began the Hollywood tradition of numbered sequels. The movie was released in 1974 and went on to receive tremendous critical acclaim, with many deeming it superior to its predecessor. It
1177-475: A filmmaker was cemented with the release of The Godfather (1972) which won three Academy Awards for Best Picture , Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay and revolutionized the gangster genre of filmmaking, receiving strong commercial and critical reception. He directed The Godfather Part II (1974) which also won Best Picture with Coppola earning the Best Director . Also in 1974, Coppola released
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#17328761456331284-474: A heart attack while fishing alone on the shores of a lake. Some boys playing in the woods discovered his body, too late to revive him. The unexpected sudden loss of his father (with whom he had always been very close), coinciding with the bankruptcy of his film company, plunged Naschy into a two-year period of depression. Suddenly no one in the film industry wanted to finance projects with him, and some of his best friends turned their backs on him when he needed them
1391-525: A hospital in Madrid, Spain at the age of 75. He struggled desperately to stay alive for over one year after being diagnosed with the cancer in 2008, but the end was inevitable. Although his life ended in relatively poor financial straits, Naschy always received a tremendous outpouring of love from his many fans at the conventions he attended and died knowing he would always be regarded as a major horror film icon. A hardcover book entitled Muchas Gracias, Señor Lobo
1498-402: A language barrier since Naschy had never learned to speak English. Also, Naschy had brought his wife and son Sergio along with him, and the day after they arrived, his wife was hospitalized with a stomach virus, so Naschy was a bit preoccupied during the shoot.) During his sojourn in Hollywood, Naschy even visited Universal Studios as well as the famed "Ackermansion" museum of Forrest J Ackerman ,
1605-534: A lot of money on his ill-conceived spy spoof Operation Mantis (1985), Naschy's production company, Aconito Films, wound up in bankruptcy. (Aconito is the scientific term for the herb wolfsbane ). Naschy had three partners in the company...Augusto Boue (who dumped his shares in the business the moment things got bad), Masurao Takeda (who died soon after the bankruptcy from pancreatic cancer) and Julia Saly (who retired from acting completely after Mantis flopped). On June 20, 1984, Naschy's father Enrique Molina died of
1712-546: A low sum and budget after the poor reception of his latest film The Rain People . Coppola initially turned down the job because he found Puzo's novel sleazy and sensationalist, describing it as "pretty cheap stuff". At the time, Coppola's studio American Zoetrope owed over $ 400,000 to Warner Bros. for budget overruns in the film THX 1138 and, when coupled with his poor financial standing, along with advice from friends and family, Coppola reversed his initial decision and took
1819-513: A mansion in Marin County to house the studio. However, in 1969, with equipment flowing in and no mansion found yet, the first home for Zoetrope Studio became a warehouse in San Francisco on Folsom Street . The studio went on to become an early adopter of digital filmmaking, including some of the earliest uses of HDTV . In his 1968 book The American Cinema , Andrew Sarris wrote: "[Coppola]
1926-515: A masterpiece of the New Hollywood era and is frequently cited as one of the greatest movies ever made. Roger Ebert considered it to be the finest film on the Vietnam War and included it in his list for the 2002 Sight & Sound critics' poll of the greatest movies ever made. In 2001, Coppola re-released Apocalypse Now as Apocalypse Now Redux , restoring several sequences lost from
2033-458: A member of Writers Guild of America West , left and maintained financial core status in 1986. Also in 1986, Coppola released the comedy Peggy Sue Got Married starring Kathleen Turner , Coppola's nephew Nicolas Cage , and Jim Carrey . Much like The Outsiders and Rumble Fish , Peggy Sue Got Married centered around teenage youth. The film earned Coppola positive feedback and provided Kathleen Turner her first and only Oscar nomination. It
2140-492: A period of crisis in the 1980s, and the ceremony was suspended from 1986 until 1990. The prize consists of a simple bronze medal and has no financial prize attached to it. They are the oldest cinematic awards in Spain. The Circle of Cinematographic Writers was created in 1945 by fifteen individuals. Their goal was to form an organization to promote cinematographic art in Spain. In 1946, the awards were launched to celebrate films made in
2247-575: A prize for best setting and one for best short film. In 1948, the Gimeno Prize was introduced to reward newcomers. Its name was changed to the Jimeno Prize the following year, and again in 1962, to the Antonio Barbero Prize. Initially limited to a single winner, it was later expanded to honour the best new director, actor, and actress. In the third year of the ceremony, a medal was awarded for
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#17328761456332354-595: A production assistant on his next film The Rain People in 1969. The Rain People was written, directed, and initially produced by Coppola himself, though as the movie advanced, he exceeded his budget and the studio had to underwrite the remainder of the movie. The film won the Golden Shell at the 1969 San Sebastian Film Festival . In 1969, Coppola wanted to subvert the studio system, which he felt had stifled his visions, intending to produce mainstream pictures to finance off-beat projects and give first-time directors
2461-705: A professional weightlifter, but soon gravitated to acting and filmmaking. His favorite film character from childhood was the Wolf Man, dating back to when he saw the classic Universal film Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) as a child. At times, he tried his hand at designing record album covers, writing pulp western novels and drawing comic book stories, but did not meet with much success. In his 20s, Naschy moved back and forth between professional weightlifting and acting, but wasn't able to secure important roles, usually obtaining just bit parts. Naschy had an uncredited bit part in
2568-470: A remote country site in Spain in 1966, Naschy met horror icon Boris Karloff on the set, a thrill he never forgot. (Karloff was in a very poor mood that day, apparently depressed and in poor health. This encounter led to a posthumously produced film biography on Naschy being entitled Paul Naschy: The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry .) In 1968, at age 34, he wrote a screenplay for a werewolf movie entitled The Mark of
2675-427: A sequel, Panic Beats (1983)). Naschy claims he based this character on a real-life medieval nobleman named Gilles de Rais , a serial killer on whose life story Naschy also based the lead character in his 1974 film El Mariscal del Infierno ( The Devil's Possessed ) Naschy's 12 Hombre Lobo films are not a series in the strictest sense. They seem to be a collection of unrelated plotlines, but all of which involve
2782-399: A somewhat chronological storyline from picture to picture, Naschy's Daninsky films were not connected to each other plotwise. Each film was more or less a free-standing story that was not meant to relate to the other films in the series in the way the old Universal films did. Daninsky's lycanthropy had a different origin in each film (which many Naschy fans find confusing). This was probably for
2889-449: A theater arts major. There, he was awarded a scholarship in playwriting. This furthered his interest in directing theater, though his father disapproved and wanted him to study engineering. Coppola was profoundly impressed by Sergei Eisenstein 's film October: Ten Days That Shook the World , especially the quality of its editing , and decided to pursue cinema rather than theater. He said he
2996-537: A very successful acting and screenwriting career in the process. Naschy wrote the screenplays for most of the films he starred in, especially the horror movies. His most prolific year was 1972, during which time he wrote and starred in no less than seven movies. During the 1970s, he worked for some of the best Euro-horror film directors in the business, including León Klimovsky , Carlos Aured , Javier Aguirre , José Luis Madrid , Juan Piquer Simón , Francisco Lara Polop and José Luis Merino . Naschy's favorite director
3103-487: A werewolf named Count Waldemar Daninsky. Both La Furia del Hombre Lobo (1970) and La Maldicion de la Bestia (1975) refer to an origin involving Waldemar's being bitten by a yeti (and there is a brief yeti reference in La Noche de Walpurgis (1970) as well), but the other films presented him with entirely different origin stories. The fact that these films have also been retitled by the various film distributors many times over
3210-448: A while after his operation. He had to later contact a number of fanzine publishers in various countries to inform them that he was still very much alive. In 1996, Naschy wrote and starred in his 11th werewolf film Licántropo , which he thought would be a big comeback film for him, but the movie did not do well at all, critically or financially. He continued to appear in a number of low budget horror films and crime dramas, however, during
3317-623: A year. Both Schafer's film and The Peeper featured Marli Renfro, so the producers paid Coppola $ 500 to combine the two films. After Coppola re-edited the picture, it was released in 1962 as the softcore comedy Tonight for Sure . Another production company, Screen Rite Pictures, hired Coppola to do a similar job: re-cutting a German film titled Mit Eva fing die Sünde an [ de ] ( Sin Began with Eve ), directed by Fritz Umgelter . Coppola added new color footage with British model June Wilkinson and other nude starlets. The re-edited film
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3424-553: Is an American filmmaker. He is considered one of the leading figures of the New Hollywood film movement and is widely considered one of the greatest directors of all time. Coppola is the recipient of five Academy Awards , six Golden Globe Awards , two Palmes d'Or , and a BAFTA Award . After directing The Rain People in 1969, Coppola co-wrote Patton (1970), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay along with Edmund H. North . Coppola's reputation as
3531-647: Is an actress, his daughter Sofia is a director, his son Roman is a screenwriter, and his nephews Jason Schwartzman and Nicolas Cage are actors. Coppola resides in Napa, California , and since the 2010s has been a vintner , owning a family-branded winery of his own. Francis Ford Coppola was born in Detroit , Michigan , to father Carmine Coppola (1910–1991), a flautist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra , and mother Italia Coppola (née Pennino; 1912–2004),
3638-627: Is probably the first reasonably talented and sensibly adaptable directorial talent to emerge from a university curriculum in film-making ... [He] may be heard from more decisively in the future." Coppola was at the forefront of a group of filmmakers known as " New Hollywood " that emerged in the early 1970s, with ideas that challenged conventional filmmaking. The group included George Lucas , Martin Scorsese , Brian De Palma , Steven Spielberg , Terrence Malick , Robert Altman , Woody Allen , William Friedkin , and Philip Kaufman . Coppola co-wrote
3745-452: Is still not available in English. Naschy's career took a second downturn when he suffered a near-fatal heart attack himself on August 27, 1991, triggered by weightlifting in a local gym. He was hospitalized for more than a week, then had major heart surgery performed on September 5. A rumor circulated throughout horror film fandom that Naschy had died, since he disappeared from the film scene for
3852-504: Is without a doubt Paul Naschy's most famous horror character, since he played Daninsky in 12 different films. In fact, Naschy holds the record for the greatest number of roles as a werewolf, easily beating out Lon Chaney Jr. , who played a werewolf only seven times during his career (even counting his House of Terror (1960 film) and his appearance on Route 66 (TV series) .) Unlike the Chaney Universal films, however, which formed
3959-573: The Academy Award for Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Coppola. The film routinely features at the top in various polls for the greatest movies ever. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry , and was ranked third, behind Citizen Kane and Casablanca , on the initial AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list by the American Film Institute in 1997. It
4066-604: The Ford Motor Company . Coppola was born at Henry Ford Hospital , and those two connections to Henry Ford inspired the Coppolas to choose the middle name "Ford" for their son. Francis is the middle of three children: his older brother was August Coppola , and his younger sister is actress Talia Shire . Two years after Coppola's birth, his father was named principal flutist for the NBC Symphony Orchestra , and
4173-705: The Vietnam War . Coppola himself briefly cameos as a TV news director. The production of the film was plagued by numerous problems, including typhoons, nervous breakdowns, the firing of Harvey Keitel , Martin Sheen 's heart attack, and extras from the Philippine military and half of the supplied helicopters leaving in the middle of scenes to fight rebels. It was delayed so often it was nicknamed Apocalypse When? The 1991 documentary film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse , directed by Francis's wife, Eleanor Coppola , who
4280-459: The " Life Without Zoë " segment, starring his sister Talia Shire , and also co-wrote the film with his daughter Sofia . "Life Without Zoë" was mostly panned by critics and was generally considered to be the segment that brought the film's overall quality down. Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote a particularly scathing review, stating: "It's impossible to know what Francis Coppola's Life Without Zoë is. Co-written with his daughter Sofia,
4387-473: The "100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century" as well as Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list. It was also featured on Sight & Sound 's list of the ten greatest films of all time in 2002, ranking at No. 4. Coppola was the third director to have two nominations for Best Picture in the same year. Victor Fleming was the first in 1939 with Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz ; Alfred Hitchcock repeated
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4494-458: The "Luna de Miel" segment only); and La Esclava del Paraiso / Slave of Paradise (1968, a.k.a. 1001 Nights , playing a palace servant named Chantal). Naschy allegedly acted as an assistant director on two other films, Aventura en el Palacio Viejo (1967) and Cronica de Nueve Meses (1967) While appearing as an extra in an episode of the American TV show I Spy that was being filmed in
4601-680: The 12 Hombre Lobo films are as follows: Naschy played generic werewolves in four other films that were not part of the Hombre Lobo series.... Note* - Paul Naschy starred in many other horror films that did not feature el Hombre Lobo, as well as a number of crime films, historical dramas, action thrillers, etc. Below is the complete list of all his movies, in strict chronological order of production. Naschy died on November 30, 2009, in Madrid, Spain. Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola ( / ˈ k oʊ p əl ə / KOH -pə-lə , Italian: [ˈkɔppola] ; born April 7, 1939)
4708-704: The Circle. In the first edition, medals were awarded for best literary work and best critical work. Subsequently, a medal was created for best book, though this is now defunct. In 1952, a prize was created for best journalistic work. In 1994, a Tribute Award was awarded to American director Francis Ford Coppola . Its delivery was repeated until 2004, when the name was changed to the Medal of Honour. The award goes to professionals in various sectors connected to cinema. Paul Naschy Jacinto Molina Álvarez (September 6, 1934 – November 30, 2009) known by his stage name Paul Naschy ,
4815-670: The Terrible , a film about a sculptor's nightmares coming to life. He also met undergraduate film major Jim Morrison , future frontman of The Doors . Coppola later used Morrison's song " The End " in Apocalypse Now . In the early 1960s, Coppola made $ 10 per week (roughly equivalent to $ 100 per week today). Looking for a way to earn some extra money, he found that many colleagues from film school made money filming erotic productions known as "nudie-cuties" or "skin flicks", which showed nudity without implying any sexual act. At 21, Coppola wrote
4922-497: The Third Army, set against a huge American flag. Coppola and North had to tone down Patton's actual language to avoid an R rating ; in the opening monologue, the word "fornicating" replaced "fucking" when criticizing The Saturday Evening Post . Over the years, this opening monologue has become an iconic scene and has spawned parodies in numerous films, political cartoons, and television shows. The release of The Godfather in 1972
5029-537: The Watergate break-in. However, the audience interpreted the film as a reaction to both the Watergate scandal and its fallout. The movie was a critical success and got Coppola his first Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival . During the filming of The Conversation , Coppola wrote the screenplay for The Great Gatsby . However, in the commentary track to the DVD of The Godfather, Coppola states, "I don't think that script
5136-518: The Wolfman (about a Polish werewolf named Count Waldemar Daninsky) and managed to interest a Spanish film company called Maxper Producciones Cinematograficas into financing it. Naschy never intended to play "El Hombre Lobo" (as the doomed lycanthrope came to be called in Spain), he just wound up with the part when the producer could not find a suitable actor (they had tried to hire Lon Chaney Jr. , but at age 62,
5243-784: The awards, including Surcos , Plácido , Chimes at Midnight , and El espíritu de la colmena . Other categories have included best director, best actor, best actress, best supporting actor and actress, best photography, and best music; all of these categories continue to exist to this day. The award has been received by many notable directors, such as José Luis Sáenz de Heredia , Ladislao Vajda , Carlos Saura , José Luis Garci , Luis Buñuel , and Pedro Almodóvar . Well-known award-winning actors include Fernando Fernán Gómez , Ana Mariscal , José Luis López Vázquez , Francisco Rabal , Emma Penella , Fernando Rey , Sara Montiel , Javier Bardem , Concha Velasco , Ricardo Darín , and Penélope Cruz . Some earlier categories have been removed over
5350-475: The basis of Brando's screen test, which also won over the Paramount leadership. Brando later won an Academy Award for his portrayal, which he refused to accept. Coppola would later recollect: The Godfather was a very unappreciated movie when we were making it. They were very unhappy with it. They didn't like the cast. They didn't like the way I was shooting it. I was always on the verge of getting fired. So it
5457-469: The best foreign film, going to The Best Years of Our Lives . In the 1956 edition, medals were created to celebrate the best foreign actor and actress. A prize was also temporarily awarded to the best Spanish-American film. Apart from awards given to film professionals, from the outset, there were others dedicated to highlighting the work of film critics, journalists, and book writers. These awards are more corporate in nature and have often gone to members of
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#17328761456335564-503: The best, however, since in the 1970s, Euro-horror films were often theatrically distributed in the U.S. several years after they were completed, and they probably would have all been released out of order anyway. Naschy's only other recurring character was the villainous medieval warlock Alaric de Marnac (who appeared in Naschy's Horror Rises from the Tomb (1972) and returned to life again in
5671-536: The box office, earning a meager $ 2.5 million against a $ 10 million budget and once again aggravating Coppola's financial troubles. In 1984, Coppola directed the Robert Evans -produced The Cotton Club . The film was nominated for several awards, including the Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Picture (Drama) and Oscars for Best Film Editing and Best Art-Direction. However, the film failed miserably at
5778-550: The box-office, earning only $ 25.9 million of the $ 47.9 million privately invested by brothers Fred and Ed Doumani. The same year, he directed an episode of Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre entitled "Rip Van Winkle" (based on the short story ), where Harry Dean Stanton played the lead role. In 1986, Coppola directed Captain EO , a 17-minute space fantasy for Disney theme parks executive produced by George Lucas , starring singer Michael Jackson . Coppola, formerly
5885-487: The cast to the Napa Valley for much of the outdoor shooting, but those scenes were in sharp contrast to those filmed on a Hollywood soundstage, resulting in a disjointed look to the film. Dealing with outdated material at a time when the popularity of film musicals was already waning, Clark received a Golden Globe Best Actress nomination. The film introduced Coppola to George Lucas , who became his lifelong friend as well as
5992-520: The cast were Patrick Swayze , Rob Lowe (in his film debut), Emilio Estevez , Diane Lane , and Tom Cruise . Matt Dillon and several others also starred in Coppola's related film Rumble Fish , which was also based on an S. E. Hinton novel and filmed at the same time as The Outsiders on-location in Tulsa, Oklahoma . Carmine Coppola wrote and edited the musical score, including the title song "Stay Gold", which
6099-418: The casting of Coppola's daughter Sofia , who stepped into the leading role of Mary Corleone , which was abandoned by Winona Ryder just as filming began. Despite this, The Godfather Part III went on to gather seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Picture . The film failed to win any of these awards, which made it the only film in the trilogy to do so. In September 2020, for
6206-452: The ceremony and no awards were granted, and it seemed as if it would become defunct. However, a new CEC leadership, led by Paul Naschy , relaunched the awards in 1991. Starting from the first edition of the Premios, categories awarded to domestic productions predominated. The main award was the prize for best film. Various notable Spanish films have received this honour throughout the history of
6313-459: The classic 1961 Biblical epic King of Kings and the experience drew him further into filmmaking. Naschy also played uncredited bit parts in the following films: El Principe Encadenado / The Chained Prince (1960, a.k.a. King of the Vikings , playing a Mongol chieftain); Operation Plus Ultra (1966, playing a masked surgeon); Las Viudas / The Widows (1966, acting as assistant director in
6420-521: The editor of the legendary magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland . On October 24, 1969, Naschy married Elvira Primavera, the daughter of an Italian diplomat living in Spain, and they remained happily married 40 years later at the time of his death. His wife was always very supportive of his filmmaking projects and was undoubtedly one of the factors that led to his success. He was survived by his widow Elvira and his two sons, Bruno and Sergio Molina. Naschy died of pancreatic cancer on November 30, 2009, at
6527-540: The fabled Hollywood horror star was far too sickly to travel). The German distributors insisted he change his name from Jacinto Molina because it sounded too Spanish, which would have hurt the film's chances at the box offices in various countries outside of Spain. He created the name "Paul Naschy".... "Paul" after Pope Paul VI, and "Naschy" as a Germanic sounding version of "Imre Nagy", one of Naschy's weightlifting idols. Naschy later wrote and starred in 11 sequels featuring his Waldemar Daninsky werewolf character, and spun off
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#17328761456336634-487: The failure of One from the Heart (1982) compelled him to take up Paramount 's long-standing offer to make a third installment. Coppola and Puzo preferred the title The Death of Michael Corleone , but Paramount Pictures found that unacceptable. While not as critically acclaimed as the first two films, it was still commercially successful, earning $ 136 million against a $ 54 million budget. Some reviewers criticized
6741-556: The family moved to New York. They settled in Woodside, Queens , where Coppola spent the remainder of his childhood. Having contracted polio as a boy, Coppola was bedridden for large periods of his childhood, during which he did homemade puppet theater productions. He developed an interest in theater after reading A Streetcar Named Desire at age 15. He created 8 mm feature films edited from home movies with titles such as The Rich Millionaire and The Lost Wallet . Although Coppola
6848-668: The feat the next year with Foreign Correspondent and Rebecca . Since Coppola, two other directors have done the same: Herbert Ross in 1977 with The Goodbye Girl and The Turning Point , and Steven Soderbergh in 2000 with Erin Brockovich and Traffic . Coppola, however, is the only one to have produced the pictures nominated. Following the success of The Godfather , The Conversation , and The Godfather Part II , Coppola began filming Apocalypse Now , an adaptation of Joseph Conrad 's Heart of Darkness set in Cambodia during
6955-399: The film alienated potential buyers, who did not find the 12-minute short exciting enough to screen in adult theaters . After much rejection, Coppola received an opportunity from Premier Pictures Company, a small production company that invested in an adult production called The Wide Open Spaces , an erotic western written and directed by Jerry Schafer, which had been shelved for more than
7062-412: The film industry today, ended with a disastrous box-office gross of US$ 636,796 against a $ 26-million budget, and he was forced to sell the 23-acre Zoetrope Studio in 1983. He would spend the rest of the decade working to pay off his debts. Zoetrope Studios finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1990, after which its name was changed to American Zoetrope . In 1983, he directed The Outsiders ,
7169-432: The film is a mystifying embarrassment; it's by far the director's worst work yet." In 1990, he released the third and final chapter of The Godfather series: The Godfather Part III . Coppola felt that the first two films had told the complete Corleone saga. Coppola intended Part III to be an epilogue to the first two films. In his audio commentary for Part II , he stated that only a dire financial situation caused by
7276-580: The film utilized the very same surveillance and wire-tapping equipment that members of the Nixon administration used to spy on political opponents prior to the Watergate scandal . Coppola insisted that this was purely coincidental, as the script for The Conversation was completed in the mid-1960s (before the election of Richard Nixon ) and the spying equipment used in the film was developed through research and use of technical advisers and not by newspaper stories about
7383-559: The film's 30th anniversary, it was announced that a new cut of the film titled Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone would have a limited theatrical release in December 2020 followed by digital and Blu-ray. Coppola said the film is the version he and Puzo had originally envisioned, and it "vindicates" its status among the trilogy and his daughter Sofia's performance. In 1992, Coppola directed and produced Bram Stoker's Dracula . Adapted from Bram Stoker 's novel , it
7490-478: The following decade, during which time he won a number of prestigious fan awards and appeared as a celebrated guest at many horror film conventions during the 1990s and the 2000s (both in the United States and in Europe). But he was still doing poorly financially, and complained bitterly in interviews about the state of the corrupt Spanish film industry which he said practiced favoritism and cronyism . In 1997, Naschy wrote
7597-619: The job. Coppola was officially announced as director of the film on September 28, 1970. He agreed to receive $ 125,000 and six percent of the gross rentals. Coppola later found a deeper theme for the material and decided it should be not just be a film about organized crime, but also a family chronicle and a metaphor for capitalism in America. There was disagreement between Paramount and Coppola on casting; Coppola wanted to cast Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone , though Paramount wanted either Ernest Borgnine or Danny Thomas . At one point, Coppola
7704-407: The most. Naschy claimed in interviews that he even considered suicide during this period. He only returned to filmmaking in 1987 with his supposed "comeback film" El Aullido del Diablo . Naschy's son Sergio played a major role in the film, along with famed horror icons Howard Vernon and Caroline Munro. The film was very poorly distributed unfortunately (shown only on local Spanish TV), and even today
7811-428: The original 1979 cut of the film, thereby expanding its length to 200 minutes. In 2019, Coppola re-released Apocalypse Now once more as Apocalypse Now (Final Cut) , claiming that version to be his favorite. Apocalypse Now marked the end of the 'golden phase' of Coppola's career. His 1982 musical fantasy One from the Heart , although pioneering the use of video-editing techniques that are standard practice in
7918-408: The other of his son Michael . In the director's commentary on the DVD edition of the film (released in 2002), Coppola states that this film was the first major motion picture to use "Part II" in its title. Paramount was initially opposed to his decision to name the movie The Godfather Part II . According to Coppola, the studio's objection stemmed from the belief that audiences would be reluctant to see
8025-428: The previous year. Despite their lack of financial endowment—the prizes consist of a simple bronze medal designed by the artist González de Ubieta—the awards have achieved a high level of prestige due to their independence, as they are not awarded by the film industry itself or by its corporate sponsors. In the 1980s, the organization went through a period of crisis. For five years—from 1986 to 1990—the Circle did not hold
8132-463: The rights to the David Benedictus novel You're a Big Boy Now and merged it with a story idea of his own, resulting in his UCLA thesis project You're a Big Boy Now (1966), which earned Coppola his Master of Fine Arts Degree from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 1967. The film also received a theatrical release via Warner Bros and earned critical acclaim. Geraldine Page
8239-804: The screenplays for most of his films and directed a number of them as well, signing many of them "Jacinto Molina". Naschy was bestowed Spain's Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts in 2001. Naschy was born as Jacinto Molina Alvarez in Madrid in 1934, and grew up during the Spanish Civil War , a period of great turmoil in Spanish history. His father Enrique Molina was a successful furrier, and Naschy grew up in very comfortable surroundings, at one point living in his parents' country mansion. Naschy went to college initially to become an architect. After college, he started out as
8346-407: The script for Patton starting in 1963 along with Edmund H. North . This earned him his first Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay . However, it was not easy for Coppola to convince Franklin J. Schaffner that the opening scene would work. Coppola later revealed in an interview, I wrote the script of Patton . And the script was very controversial when I wrote it, because they thought it
8453-402: The script for The Peeper , a comedy short film about a voyeur who tries to spy on a sensual photo shoot in the studio next to his apartment. Coppola found an interested producer, who gave him $ 3,000 to shoot the film. He hired Playboy Bunny Marli Renfro to play the model and had his friend Karl Schanzer play the voyeur. With The Peeper finished, Coppola found that the cartoonish aspects of
8560-1198: The thriller The Conversation , which received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival . His next film, the war epic Apocalypse Now (1979), which had a notoriously lengthy and strenuous production , was widely acclaimed for vividly depicting the Vietnam War . It also won the Palme d'Or, making Coppola one of only ten filmmakers to have won the award twice. Coppola later directed notable films such as The Outsiders and Rumble Fish (both 1983), The Cotton Club (1984), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), The Godfather Part III (1990), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and The Rainmaker (1997). Coppola has acted as producer on such diverse films as American Graffiti (1973), The Black Stallion (1979), The Escape Artist (1982), Hammett (1982), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) and The Secret Garden (1993). Many of Coppola's relatives and children have become popular actors and filmmakers: his sister Talia Shire
8667-428: The years only adds to the confusion. Despite the numerous plot inconsistencies and convoluted flashbacks, however, Naschy's Wolf Man series as a whole is still considered his most famous work by most of his many fans. Only 11 of the 12 Hombre Lobo films actually exist today. Las Noches del Hombre Lobo (1968), which Naschy claimed was the 2nd film in the series, is considered a lost film today. In order of production,
8774-469: The years, while others have remained. A few have been split into separate prizes, such as the award for best screenplay, which is today given to original and adapted screenplays separately. New categories have also been added, including a prize for best montage, best documentary feature film, and best animated film. An award was briefly conferred to the best foreign actor and actress in a Spanish film. Other prizes which were introduced and later cancelled include
8881-685: Was Jeff Bridges who played the role of Preston Tucker. Budgeted at $ 24 million, the film received positive reviews and earned three nominations at the 62nd Academy Awards , but grossed a disappointing $ 19.65 million at the box office. It garnered two awards: Martin Landau won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and Dean Tavoularis took BAFTA's honors for Best Production Design . In 1989, Coppola teamed up with fellow Oscar -winning directors Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen for an anthology film called New York Stories . Coppola directed
8988-417: Was León Klimovsky , with whom he made eight horror and action films. Naschy praised Klimovsky's professional workmanlike attitude, but he always felt that Klimovsky rushed through the filming and never allowed for enough retakes that might have improved some of their films. He also enjoyed working for director Carlos Aured, and was proud of the films they did together. Naschy's favorite co-star (and co-producer)
9095-469: Was Coppola's first box-office success since The Outsiders and the film ranked number 17 on Entertainment Weekly ' s list of "50 Best High School Movies". The following year, Coppola re-teamed with James Caan for Gardens of Stone , but the film was overshadowed by the death of Coppola's eldest son Gian-Carlo during the film's production. The movie was not a critical success and underperformed commercially, earning only $ 5.6 million against
9202-425: Was Julia Saly, and he worked with her on fourteen of his films. In 1976, he decided to try his hand at directing as well, choosing the costume drama Inquisition as his first project. He did well for about eight years, even producing and directing a number of successful Japanese/Spanish co-productions and made-for-Spanish-TV documentaries, but by 1985, his feature films were no longer breaking even, and after losing
9309-464: Was [actually] made." Coppola shot The Godfather Part II in parallel to The Conversation . It was the last major American motion picture to be filmed in Technicolor . George Lucas commented on the film after its five-hour-long preview, telling Coppola, "You have two films. Take one away, it doesn't work," referring to the movie's portrayal of two parallel storylines, one of a young Vito Corleone and
9416-487: Was a Spanish film actor, screenwriter , and director working primarily in horror films . His portrayals of numerous classic horror figures— The Wolfman , Frankenstein's monster , Count Dracula , Quasimodo , Fu Manchu and a mummy —earned him recognition as the Spanish Lon Chaney . Naschy also starred in dozens of action films, historical dramas, crime films , TV shows and documentaries. He also wrote
9523-531: Was a cinematic milestone. The near three hour-long epic, a film treatment of Mario Puzo 's New York Times-bestselling novel The Godfather , chronicling the saga of the Corleone family , received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and got Coppola the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay , which he shared with Mario Puzo, as well as Golden Globe Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay . However, Coppola faced several difficulties while filming. He
9630-483: Was a mediocre student, his interest in technology and engineering earned him the childhood nickname "Science". He trained initially for a career in music and became proficient in the tuba , eventually earning a music scholarship to the New York Military Academy . In all, Coppola attended 23 schools before he eventually graduated from Great Neck North High School . He entered Hofstra College in 1955 as
9737-450: Was an extremely nightmarish experience. I had two little kids, and the third one was born during that. We lived in a little apartment, and I was basically frightened that they didn't like it. They had as much as said that, so when it was all over I wasn't at all confident that it was going to be successful, and that I'd ever get another job. After it was released, the film received widespread praise. It went on to win multiple awards, including
9844-467: Was based upon a famous Robert Frost poem and performed for the movie by Stevie Wonder . That same year, he directed Rumble Fish , based on the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton, who also co-wrote the screenplay. Shot in black-and-white as an homage to German expressionist films , Rumble Fish centers on the relationship between a revered former gang leader ( Mickey Rourke ) and his younger brother, Rusty James ( Matt Dillon ). The film bombed at
9951-502: Was elected president of the university's drama group The Green Wig, and its musical comedy club, the Kaleidoscopians. He merged the two groups into The Spectrum Players, and under his leadership, the group staged a new production each week. Coppola also founded the cinema workshop at Hofstra and contributed prolifically to the campus literary magazine. He won three D. H. Lawrence Awards for theatrical production and direction and received
10058-460: Was forgotten. And I remember very vividly this long, kind of being raked over the coals for this opening scene. When the title role was offered to George C. Scott, he remembered having read Coppola's screenplay earlier. He stated flatly that he would accept the part only if they used Coppola's script. "Scott is the one who resurrected my version," said Coppola. The movie opens with Scott's rendering of Patton's famous military "Pep Talk" to members of
10165-532: Was influenced to become a writer by his brother August. Coppola also credits the work of Elia Kazan for influencing him as a writer and director. Coppola's classmates at Hofstra included James Caan , Lainie Kazan , and radio artist Joe Frank . He later cast Lainie Kazan in One from the Heart and Caan in The Rain People , The Godfather , and Gardens of Stone . While pursuing his bachelor's degree, Coppola
10272-445: Was intended to follow the book more closely than previous film adaptations. Coppola cast Gary Oldman as the titular role, with Keanu Reeves , Winona Ryder , and Anthony Hopkins in supporting roles. The movie became a box-office hit, grossing $ 82,522,790 domestically, making it the 15th highest-grossing film of the year. It fared even better out of the country, grossing $ 133,339,902 for a total worldwide gross of $ 215,862,692 against
10379-452: Was moved up to second when the list was published again in 2007. Director Stanley Kubrick believed that The Godfather was possibly the greatest movie ever made and certainly the best-cast. Coppola's next film, The Conversation , further cemented his position as one of the most talented auteurs of Hollywood. The movie was partly influenced by Michelangelo Antonioni 's Blowup (1966) and generated much interest when news leaked that
10486-551: Was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and received six Oscars, including three for Coppola: Best Picture , Best Adapted Screenplay , and Best Director . The Godfather Part II is ranked as the No. 1 greatest movie of all time in TV Guide 's "50 Best Movies of All Time" and is ranked at No. 7 on Entertainment Weekly 's list of the "100 Greatest Movies of All Time". The film is also featured on movie critic Leonard Maltin 's list of
10593-509: Was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for her performance. Following the success of You're a Big Boy Now , Coppola was offered to work on a movie version of the Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow , starring Petula Clark in her first American film and veteran Fred Astaire . Producer Jack L. Warner was not impressed by Coppola's shaggy-haired, bearded, " hippie " appearance and generally left him to his own devices. Coppola took
10700-429: Was not Paramount 's first choice to direct the movie; Italian director Sergio Leone was initially offered the job but declined in order to direct his own gangster opus, Once Upon a Time in America . Robert Evans wanted the picture to be directed by an Italian American to make the film "ethnic to the core". Evans' chief assistant Peter Bart suggested Coppola, as a director of Italian ancestry who would work for
10807-429: Was on the set of Dementia 13 that Coppola met the woman he would marry, Eleanor Jessie Neil . In 1965, Coppola won the annual Samuel Goldwyn Award for best screenplay ( Pilma, Pilma ) written by a UCLA student. The honor secured him a job as a scriptwriter with Seven Arts . During this time, Coppola also co-wrote the scripts for This Property Is Condemned (1966) and Is Paris Burning? (1966). Coppola bought
10914-446: Was overwhelmingly praised by critics when it finally released in 1979 and was selected for the 1979 Cannes Film Festival , winning the Palme d'Or along with The Tin Drum , directed by Volker Schlöndorff . When the film screened at Cannes, Coppola quipped, "My film is not about Vietnam, it is Vietnam." Apocalypse Now 's reputation has grown in time and it is now regarded by many as
11021-415: Was present through the production, Fax Bahr, and George Hickenlooper , chronicles the difficulties the crew went through making Apocalypse Now and features behind-the-scenes footage filmed by Eleanor. After filming Apocalypse Now , Coppola famously stated, "We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment and little by little, we went insane." The film
11128-538: Was published in Germany after Naschy's death, collecting hundreds of rare photos, lobby cards, posters, etc. that had been used to promote Naschy's films over the decades in a number of different countries. A comprehensive film biography entitled Paul Naschy: The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry (a reference to Naschy's meeting Boris Karloff on the set of "I Spy" in 1966) has also been released on DVD. The werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky (known in Spain as El Hombre Lobo )
11235-572: Was released as The Bellboy and the Playgirls . That same year producer/director Roger Corman hired Coppola as an assistant. Corman first tasked Coppola with dubbing and re-editing the Soviet science fiction film Nebo zovyot , which Coppola turned into the sex-and-violence monster movie Battle Beyond the Sun , which was released in 1962. Impressed by Coppola's perseverance and dedication, Corman hired him as
11342-447: Was so stylized. It was supposed to be like, sort of, you know, The Longest Day . And my script of Patton was—I was sort of interested in the reincarnation. And I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I wasn't fired, but I was fired, meaning that when the script was done, they said, "Okay, thank you very much," and they went and hired another writer and that script
11449-446: Was told by the then-president of Paramount that "Marlon Brando will never appear in this motion picture." After pleading with the executives, Coppola was allowed to cast Brando only if he appeared in the film for much less money than his previous films, would perform a screen test, and put up a bond saying that he would not cause a delay in the production (as he had done on previous film sets). Coppola chose Brando over Ernest Borgnine on
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