Eleanor Coppolaan award-winning filmmaker and wife of the director Francis Ford Coppola, has died. She was 87 years old.
In a statement shared with the Associated Press, the Coppola family announced that she passed away on Friday, April 12, “with her family surrounded” at her home in Rutherford, California. Her cause of death has not been revealed.
Born on May 4, 1936 in Los Angeles, California, Eleanor grew up in Orange County before returning to LA to study at UCLA, where she met her husband Francis, 84, on the set of his 1963 horror film worked. Dementia 13Per The Hollywood Reporter.
The couple married in February of the same year and had three children together: a son Gian Carlo – who died in a boating accident in 1986 at the age of 22 – son Roman58, and daughter Sofia55.
The Coppola family has long been Hollywood royalty – and their generational talent means that’s unlikely to change any time soon. The famous line began with Carmine Coppola, an orchestra conductor and Oscar-winning film composer. Carmine and his wife Italia Pennino had three children together: August Floyd Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola and Talia Shire. All […]
Although Eleanor has always been interested in films, she first picked up the camera to film behind the scenes of her husband Francis’ award-winning film Apocalypse nowwhose chaotic production took more than 230 days, she discovered her passion for the craft.
“I do not know if [Francis] whether he is just trying to keep me busy or whether he wants to avoid using a professional crew,” she wrote Notes: The Making of Apocalypse Now. “Maybe both.”
Footage shot by Eleanor on the set of her husband’s 1978 war film earned her a 1992 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Information Programming – Directing Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.
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“For me, the beginning of the film idea was certainly the documentary Apocalypse now,” She said deadline in 2017. “I had no idea. I had made some small art films in the early ’70s, but when I got this camera in the Philippines I was just fascinated when I looked through the viewfinder. I really responded to that, so I made different documentaries because I always loved filming.”
In addition to Hearts of DarknessEleanor also directed documentaries documenting the birth of daughter Sofia The Virgin’s Suicides in 1999 and Marie Antoinette in 2006 and directed the 2016 romantic comedy Paris can wait. Her last directorial was in 2020 Love is love is love.
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In October last year, Sofia skipped the New York Film Festival to screen her film Priscilla Spending time with her mother.
“I am so sorry that I cannot be with you, but I am with my mother, to whom this film is dedicated,” the writer-director wrote in a statement read by the producer You are Henley by the time.