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 cowriter 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 Franciscobased 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 incamera visual effects and second unit direction for Francis Ford Coppolas Bram Stokers Dracula which garnered a BAFTA Award nomination for Visual Effects He has continued to do second unit direction throughout his career including his fathers Jack The Rainmaker Youth Without Youth and Tetro collaborator Wes Andersons The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited and his sister Sofia Coppolas 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 1251 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 Phoenixs 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 Schwartzmans musical side project Coconut Records His first feature film CQ premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and was wellreceived 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 Coppolas 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 breakup 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