Coppola family

The Coppola family (/ˈkoʊpələ/ KOH-pə-lə, Italian: [ˈkɔppola]) is an Italian-American family of artists in the entertainment industry of the United States, originated from Bernalda in the region of Basilicata. Agostino "August" Coppola (1882–1946) and Maria Zasa (1887–1974) immigrated to the United States circa 1905 and married on January 25, 1908. They had seven children—Archimedes, Carmine, Pancrazzo, Mario, Anton, Edward and Clarence; Anton and Carmine are the only second generation members to actively working on music career in the 20th century.

Coppola family
Country	United States
Current region	California New York
Etymology	Italian term for flat cap
Place of origin	Bernalda, Italy
Founded	January 28, 1908 (marriage of Agostino Coppola and Maria Zasa, New York City)
Distinctions	8 Academy Awards 10 Golden Globes 2 BAFTA Awards 1 Grammy Award 2 Palm d'Or 1 Golden Lion
Estate(s)	Inglenook

Third and fourth generation members, including Francis Ford Coppola, Talia Shire, Sofia Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Nicolas Cage, are descended from Carmine Coppola. Francis Ford, one of which children from Carmine, co-founded a film production company American Zoetrope with fellow filmmaker George Lucas and cemented his career for directing the gangster film The Godfather (1972), regarded by many critics as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made as well as a landmark of the gangster genre.^[1]

Francis Ford is a prominent figure of the New Hollywood era and became the dominant force of the Hollywood film industry in the 1970s and 1980s, until his significant decline between box-office disappointment and film production delays as an independent filmmaker prior in the 21st century, leaving his descendants independently continued their successful legacy. Throughout their careers in five decades, Carmine and his descendants earned multiple Academy Awards wins and nominations, contributing to the extended Coppola members with nine being the most members of the family.

History

Generations

The first generation originates from Bernalda in the region of Basilicata. Agostino "August" Coppola (1882–1946) immigrated to the United States circa 1905. He married Maria Zasa (1887–1974) (also from Bernalda) on January 25, 1908. They had seven children—Archimedes, Carmine, Pancrazzo, Mario, Anton, Edward and Clarence.

Composer Carmine Coppola and his wife Italia "Pennino" Coppola had three children: a university professor August Coppola, a filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola (1939–), and actress Talia "Coppola" Shire. Unlike Carmine, a composer and conductor Anton is the one of six siblings of Carmine to not descent their children to filmmaking and music careers. Anton and Carmine are the only second generation members of the family to actively working on music careers in the 20th century, spanning their careers to later generations.

August had three sons: actor and DJ Marc Coppola, actor-director Christopher Coppola, and actor Nicolas Kim Coppola, better known as Nicolas Cage.

Francis Ford had three children: producer Gian-Carlo, filmmaker Roman, and former actress and filmmaker Sofia.

Talia Shire has three sons from her two marriages: Matthew Shire, actor-screenwriter-musician Jason Schwartzman, and director-actor-musician Robert Schwartzman.

Family tree

Marc Coppola (b. 1958)

Child

Spouse

Child

Christopher Coppola (b. 1962)

August Floyd Coppola[2] (1934–2009)

Child

Spouse

Joy Vogelsang (1935–2021)

Child

Christina Fulton

Weston Coppola Cage (b. 1990)

Nicolas Kim Coppola[3] (a.k.a. Nicolas Cage) (b. 1964)

Kal-El Coppola Cage (b. 2005)

Alice Kim

August Francesca Coppola Cage (b. 2022)

Riko Shibata

Gian-Carlo Coppola (1963–1986)

Gian-Carla Coppola (a.k.a. Gia Coppola) (b. 1987)

Carmine Coppola (1910–1991)

Spouse

Francis Ford Coppola[4] (b. 1939)

Italia Pennino[4] (1912–2004)

Roman Coppola (b. 1965)

Eleanor Neil (1936–2024)

Sofia Coppola (b. 1971)

Romy Mars (b. 2006)

Thomas Pablo Croquet (a.k.a. Thomas Mars) (b. 1976)

David Shire (b. 1937)

Child

Child

Talia Rose Coppola (a.k.a. Talia Shire) (b. 1946)

Jason Schwartzman (b. 1980)

Jack Schwartzman (1932–1994)

Child

Brady Cunningham

Child

Robert Coppola Schwartzman (b. 1982)

Spouse

Child

Anton Coppola (1917–2020)

Child

Spouse

Child

Academy Awards

The lineal descendants of Carmine Coppola and Italia Pennino have been nominated 24 times for an Academy Award, winning 8 times in categories including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score. Only four legitimate members of the family are Academy Award-winners: Carmine, Francis Ford, Nicolas Cage, and Sofia.

In addition, family in-laws such as Talia Shire's ex-husband David Shire,^[5] Sofia Coppola's ex-husband Spike Jonze,^[6] and Nicolas Cage's ex-wife Patricia Arquette^[7] are also Academy Award winners. Talia Shire's late husband Jack Schwartzman is also the father of Oscar nominee John Schwartzman by a previous marriage.

Academy Awards

	Wins	Nominations
Carmine Coppola	1	2
Francis Ford Coppola	5	14
Talia Shire	0	2
Nicolas Cage	1	2
Roman Coppola	0	1
Sofia Coppola	1	3

Coppola family Academy Awards nominations

Year	Category	Recipient	Work	Result
1971	Best Original Screenplay	Francis Ford Coppola[a]	Patton	Won	[8]
1973	Best Director	Francis Ford Coppola	The Godfather	Nominated	[9]
	Best Adapted Screenplay	Francis Ford Coppola[b]		Won
1974	Best Picture	Francis Ford Coppola[c]	American Graffiti	Nominated	[10]
1975		Francis Ford Coppola[d]	The Godfather Part II	Won	[11]
		Francis Ford Coppola		Nominated
	Best Director			Won
	Best Supporting Actress	Talia Shire		Nominated
	Best Adapted Screenplay	Francis Ford Coppola[e]		Won
		Francis Ford Coppola	The Conversation	Nominated
	Best Original Dramatic Score	Carmine Coppola[f]	The Godfather Part II	Won
1976	Best Actress	Talia Shire	Rocky	Nominated	[12]
1980	Best Picture	Francis Ford Coppola[g]	Apocalypse Now	Nominated	[13]
	Best Director	Francis Ford Coppola		Nominated
	Best Adapted Screenplay	Francis Ford Coppola[h]		Nominated
1991	Best Picture	Francis Ford Coppola	The Godfather Part III	Nominated	[14]
	Best Director			Nominated
1996	Best Actor	Nicolas Cage	Leaving Las Vegas	Won	[15]
2003			Adaptation	Nominated	[16]
2004	Best Picture	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation	Nominated	[17]
	Best Director			Nominated
	Best Original Screenplay			Won
2011	Irving G. Thalberg Award	Francis Ford Coppola		Honored	[18]
2013	Best Original Screenplay	Roman Coppola[i]	Moonrise Kingdom	Nominated	[19]

Controversy

Due to Francis Ford's heritage as a patriarch of the family, several media outlets accused Francis Ford of nepotism for forcibly hired his children as casting members in his films since The Godfather—including his daughter Sofia, who appeared in The Godfather Part III to positive reviews but negatively impacted her career as an actress;^[20] Sofia shifted her filmmaking career in 1999.

Notes

1. Shared with Edmund H. North
2. Shared with Mario Puzo
3. Shared with Gary Kurtz
4. Shared with Gray Frederickson and Fred Roos
5. Shared with Mario Puzo
6. Shared with Nino Rota
7. Shared with Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson and Tom Sternberg
8. Shared with John Milius
9. Shared with Wes Anderson