Francis Ford Coppola（弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉）
1967级美术硕士
有远见的导演  电影行业革新者
他有能力让我们所有人留在座位上观看他的作品

Francis Ford Coppola是编剧、导演、制片人，是美国著名的电影制作人。他是“新好莱坞”的旗帜性人物，这场运动推行一种打破传统观念的思想，改变了当代电影制造业。他的电影以各种方式推行这种思想。在《教父》这部影片中，他一改之前的单一暴力的题材，而是创新地塑造了一个心思复杂的深沉的帮派人物。 《现代启示录》（apocalypse now）中，他斥下巨资给我们打造了一部难以忘怀的、经典的越战题材电影，还准确地扑捉了整个国家的情感。在UCLA，他获得电影专业的美术硕士，他还将继续践行UCLA影视戏剧学院的精神：你可能获得巨大的商业成功，但请保有独立的本质和个体电影人的热情。

Francis Ford Coppola
MFA 1967
He took a stand that kept us in our seats.

Writer, director and producer, Francis Ford Coppola is in the pantheon of great American filmmakers. He is the poster boy for New Hollywood-a movement that brought about unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary filmmaking. His films have pushed the envelope in every way. With The Godfather, he revolutionized the gangster flick from a simple, violent spectacle to a portrayal of mobsters with psychological depth and complexity. In Apocalypse Now, he risked financial disaster to give us not only one of the most haunting, lasting visions of the Vietnam War, but captured the sentiment of an entire nation. At UCLA, he earned a Master of Fine Art in Film and would go on to epitomize the ethos of UCLA’s School of Film, Theater and Television: that you can achieve great commercial success, but do it with a core of independence and the passion of a personal filmmaker.