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Eleanor Coppola attends the memorial service for Francis Ford Coppola at the 11th Lumière Film Festival on October 18, 2019 in Lyon, France.
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Eleanor Coppola, award-winning film documentarian, artist, author, and wife of Francis Ford Coppola, has died. She was 87 years old.
The news was confirmed by Francis Ford Coppola's agent, Nesma Youssef, who said in an email that Eleanor Coppola was “surrounded by her loving family” at her home in Rutherford, California, when she died on Friday.
Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola were married for 61 years, and Eleanor accompanied her husband on many of his film shoots throughout his illustrious career.
In 1992, she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, a documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 war epic Apocalypse Now. . She has also made several other documentaries about her family's films, most recently her daughter Sofia Coppola's 2006 film Marie, according to her obituary sent by Youssef. He was reportedly editing a documentary about the production of “Antoinette''.
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(From left) Roman Coppola, Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, and Sofia Coppola attend the 43rd Annual Directors Guild of America Awards Ceremony on March 16, 1991 in Beverly Hills, California.
Eleanor Coppola is a feature film maker herself, making her directorial debut in 2016 at the age of 80 with the romance film Paris Can Wait, starring Diane Lane. She also wrote a film about the wife of a successful film producer traveling across France with her driver.
His second feature film of 2020, Love is Love is Love, will be screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Deauville American Film Festival in France.
In addition to her explorations in the field of filmmaking, Eleanor Coppola was also an accomplished artist and writer.
Along with her husband, she was at the helm of one of Hollywood's most prolific and successful filmmaking families. Her children, Roman Coppola (screenwriter and producer of several Wes Anderson films) and Sofia Coppola (The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation), were both successful. I'm a movie director. Nicolas Cage, Talia Shire, and Jason Schwartzman are part of the extended Coppola family.
Shortly before her death, Eleanor Coppola completed her third book, a memoir. She writes in her manuscript: “I am grateful for how many surprising ways my unexpected life has stretched and pulled me and taken me in different directions beyond my imagination.”