Eleanor Coppola has passed away.
The 87-year-old award-winning film director, who was married to “The Godfather” director Francis Ford Coppola since 1963, died on Friday (April 24, 12) at her home in Rutherford, California, surrounded by her family. did.
The cause of death has not been disclosed.
Eleanor and Francis met on the set of his 1963 horror film Dementia 13.
The couple went on to have three children: son Gian Carlo (who died in a boating accident in 1986 at the age of 22), son Roman (58 years old), and daughter Sofia (55 years old).
Eleanor directed the behind-the-scenes documentary for her husband's 1978 film Apocalypse Now in 1992, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Information Programming.
Of 1997's Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, she told Deadline: “For me, the beginning of the idea for the film was certainly to document 'Apocalypse Now.' I had no idea. I used to make some small art films.”
All three of her and Frances' children appeared in his films.
Gian Carlo had been working on second unit photography since before his death, Roman had directed several films and was the president of his father's film company American Zoetrope, and Sofia was the director of Lost in Translation. He is a highly acclaimed film director for films such as “'' and “Priscilla.'' She dedicated it to her mother.
Last October, she skipped the New York Film Festival for the screening of her film “Priscilla'' to spend time with her mother.
In a statement read out by producer Yuri Henry at the time, Sofia said: “I'm really sorry I can't be with you all, but I'm with my mother and this film is dedicated to her.” said.