Roman Coppola (born 22 April 1965) is an American
film director and
music video director.
Early life
Coppola was born in
Neuilly-sur-Seine,
France, the son of set decorator/artist
Eleanor Coppola (
née Neil) and 5-time
Academy Award winning director, producer, and writer
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.
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
Moby,
The Presidents of the United States of America,
Mansun,
Ween,
Green Day,
Fatboy Slim,
Phoenix,
mellow,
Daft Punk,
Matthew Sweet,
Supergrass,
The Vines,
God Lives Underwater,
Wyclef Jean,
Arctic Monkeys, and
Sebastien Tellier. His music video for Phoenix's "Funky Squaredance" was invited into permanent collection at the New York
Museum of Modern Art. He is an accomplished television commercial director as well.
He had a great deal of work in other production realms, including second unit direction for such films as
Bram Stoker's Dracula,
Jack,
The Rainmaker (all three directed by his father),
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,
The Darjeeling Limited (both films by
Wes Anderson;
Darjeeling was co-written by Coppola) and his sister
Sofia's
The Virgin Suicides and
Marie Antoinette. He filmed several sequences for
Love Actually.
See also
