Roman Coppola
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.
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Movies (77)
Making Marie Antoinette
2026 · Self, Executive Producer
Breeder
2026 · Executive Producer
Marc by Sofia
2026 · Director of Photography, Executive Producer
Fairyland
2025 · Executive Producer
Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us
2025 · Self
The Making of Hearts of Darkness
2025 · Self
Megadoc
2025 · Self
El esquema Fenicio
2025 · Story, Executive Producer
La Última Gran Actuación
2024 · Thanks
Lumière, Le Cinéma!
2024 · Self
Megalópolis
2024 · Second Unit Director
A Century in Sound
2024 · Executive Producer
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024 · Director of Photography
Priscilla
2023 · Second Unit Director, Executive Producer
El Cisne
2023 · Director of Photography
Asteroid City
2023 · Executive Producer, Story
La Crónica Francesa
2021 · Story, Executive Producer
Mariah Carey: Una Navidad mágica
2020 · Director, Executive Producer
En las rocas
2020 · Executive Producer
Isla de perros
2018 · Igor (voice), Story
El seductor
2017 · Executive Producer
Paris Puede Esperar
2016 · Thanks
The Family Whistle
2016 · Self
A Very Murray Christmas
2015 · Assistant Director, Executive Producer
Castello Cavalcanti
2013 · Producer
Here Comes the Night Time
2013 · Director
Ladrones de la fama
2013 · Producer
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
2013 · Writer, Producer, Director
Die Again, Undead One
2012 · Roman Coppola, Director, Writer
Cousin Ben Troop Screening
2012 · Writer, Other
En el camino
2012 · Producer
Moonrise Kingdom: Amor Infantil
2012 · Writer
From a Mess To The Masses
2011 · Additional Photography
Fight for Your Right Revisited
2011 · Café Patron
Somewhere
2010 · Producer
El fantástico Sr. Zorro
2009 · Squirrel Contractor (voice)
Tetro
2009 · Second Unit Director
Coda: Thirty Years Later
2007 · Self
Youth Without Youth
2007 · Second Unit Director
Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'
2007 · Self
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007 · Self
Viaje a Darjeeling
2007 · Second Unit Director, Writer, Producer
Adicolor Red
2006 · Director
María Antonieta
2006 · Second Unit Director
Danger: Diabolik - From Fumetti to Film
2005 · Self
Vida Acuática con Steve Zissou
2004 · Second Unit Director
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004 · Self
Lost on Location: Behind the Scenes of 'Lost in Translation'
2004 · Self
The Work of Director Spike Jonze
2003 · Director
Perdidos en Tokio
2003 · Thanks, Other
On the Set of CQ
2002 · Self
The Strokes: MTV $2 Bill Concert
2002 · Director
Green Day: International Supervideos!
2001 · Director
CQ
2001 · Director, Writer
The Making of The Virgin Suicides
2000 · Self
Las Vírgenes Suicidas
2000 · Second Unit Director
D.A.F.T.
1999 · Director
Star Wars: Episodio I - La amenaza fantasma
1999 · Senate Guard (uncredited)
Torrance Rises
1999 · Self, Cinematography
Lick the Star
1998 · Second Unit Director of Photography
Free Tibet
1998 · Cinematography
Legítima Defensa
1997 · Second Unit Director
Jack
1996 · Second Unit Director
Bed, Bath and Beyond
1996 · Cinematography
Drácula de Bram Stoker
1992 · Second Unit Director, Visual Effects
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991 · Self
The Linguini Incident
1991 · Thanks
The Spirit of '76
1990 · Story, Executive Producer
Casa de payasos
1990 · Executive In Charge Of Production
Rumble Fish
1983 · Associate Producer
The Black Stallion Returns
1983 · Sound Recordist, Production Assistant
Apocalypse Now
1979 · Francis de Marais
El Padrino II
1974 · Sonny Corleone as a Boy (uncredited)
The Godfather
1972 · Boy on Street Who Attended Funeral (uncredited)
You're a Big Boy Now
1966 · Baby Boy in Carriage (uncredited)
Untitled Wes Anderson Film
· Writer, Executive Producer
Glimpses of the Moon
· Second Unit Director
