Roman Coppola

Roman Ford Coppola^[1] (born April 22, 1965) is an American film director and music video director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for 2012's Moonrise Kingdom.

Early life

Coppola was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, the son of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola (née Neil) and director Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola was born in the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine while his father was in Paris writing the screenplay of Is Paris Burning?. He attended New York University's film school, the Tisch School of the Arts.

Career

Coppola had a small role as one of the sons of Tom Hagen during the funeral scene in The Godfather. He also played Santino Corleone as a young boy in the 1974 film The Godfather Part II. He oversaw the in-camera visual effects for his father's 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Coppola's feature-film debut, CQ premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.^[2] He founded the production company The Directors Bureau and directed all the music videos for songs of The Strokes' albums Is This It and "12:51" for Room on Fire. Coppola has directed clips for artists including Daft Punk, Moby, The Presidents of the United States of America, Ween, Green Day, and Fatboy Slim. He has also been a supporter of cousin Jason Schwartzman's musical side project, Coconut Records. His music video for Phoenix's "Funky Squaredance" was invited into permanent collection at the New York Museum of Modern Art. He is a television commercial director as well. Coppola is the co-owner of American Zoetrope with his sister Sofia Coppola.^[3]

He has worked in other areas of film production, including second unit direction for such films as Bram Stoker's Dracula, Jack, The Rainmaker, Youth Without Youth, Tetro (all five directed by his father), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited (both films by Wes Anderson; Darjeeling was co-written and produced by Coppola) and his sister Sofia's The Virgin Suicides and Marie Antoinette. Coppola also co-wrote the film Moonrise Kingdom with Anderson, which earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination.

Coppola wrote and directed A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, an independent film, released in 2013, starring Charlie Sheen, Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman^[4] and attained negative reviews.

He is presently (2013) directing commercials for GEICO.

Filmography

• The Spirit of '76 (with Lucas Reiner) (1990) (story only)
• CQ (2001) (director/writer)
• The Darjeeling Limited (2007) (co-writer, with Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman) (also second unit director)
• Somewhere (2010) (producer)
• A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2012) (director/writer)
• Moonrise Kingdom (2012) (co-writer, with Wes Anderson)
• The Bling Ring (2013) (producer)

Television

• Mozart in the Jungle (2014) (co-written by Jason Schwartzman and Alex Timbers)

Short films

• ¡El Tonto! (2012) (The Directors Bureau)
• Modern/Love (2012) (The Directors Bureau)
• The Mirror Between Us (2012) (The Directors Bureau)
• Eugene (2012) (The Directors Bureau)

Music videos

1994

• God Lives Underwater - "From Your Mouth"
• Nancy Boy - "Deep Sleep Motel"
• Ween - "Voodoo Lady"

1995

• Love Battery - "Harold's Pink Room"
• The Presidents of the United States of America - "Lump" (Version #1) / "Kitty"
• Matthew Sweet - "Sick of Myself" / "We're the Same"
• Mike Watt (with Evan Dando) - "Piss Bottle Man"

1996

• Green Day - "Walking Contradiction"
• Mansun - "Taxloss"
• The Presidents of the United States of America - "Lump" (Version #2) / "Peaches" / "Dune Buggy" / "Mach 5"
• The Rentals - "Waiting"

1997

• Wyclef Jean & The Refugee All-Stars (featuring John Forté and Pras) - "We Trying to Stay Alive"

1998

• Cassius - "Foxxy"
• Daft Punk - "Revolution 909"
• Fatboy Slim - "Gangster Trippin'"
• Moby - "Honey"

1999

• Cassius - "La Mouche"
• Supergrass - "We Still Need More (Than Anyone Can Give)"

2000

• Air - "Playground Love"
• Phoenix - "Funky Squaredance"
• Mellow - "Another Mellow Winter"

2001

• The Strokes - "Last Nite" (Version #2)

2002

• Marianne Faithfull - "Sex with Strangers"
• Phantom Planet - "California"
• The Strokes - "The Modern Age" / "Hard to Explain" (Version #2) / "Someday"
• The Vines - "Get Free"

2003

• Ima Robot - "Dynamite"
• The Strokes "12:51"

2004

• Phoenix - "Everything is Everything"

2006

• Phoenix - "Long Distance Call"
• Rooney - "Tell Me Soon"

2007

• Arctic Monkeys – "Teddy Picker"

2009

• Sebastian Tellier - "L'Amour et La Violence"

2013

• Arcade Fire - "Here Comes The Night Time" / "We Exist" / "Normal Person"

See also

• Coppola family tree

References

External links

• Roman Coppola Studio
• The Directors Bureau
• The Directors Bureau Special Projects
• Roman Coppola at the Internet Movie Database
• bio and credits at hollywood.com
• The Darjeeling Limited Interview with Roman Coppola