138-398: Nicolas Kim Coppola (born January 7, 1964), known professionally as Nicolas Cage , is an American actor and film producer. He is the recipient of various accolades , including an Academy Award , a Screen Actors Guild Award , and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for two BAFTA Awards . Known for his versatility as an actor, his participation in various film genres has gained him
276-593: A cult classic . He auditioned for the role of Dallas Winston in his uncle's film The Outsiders , based on S.E. Hinton 's novel , but lost to Matt Dillon . Cage, however, would co-star in Coppola's adaptation of another Hinton novel, Rumble Fish , in that year. In 1984, Cage appeared in three period films, none of which fared well at the box office. In the drama, Racing with the Moon (1984), Cage featured opposite Sean Penn as friends who are awaiting deployment to
414-582: A cult following . Born into the Coppola family , Cage began his career in films such as Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) and Valley Girl (1983), as well as various films by his uncle Francis Ford Coppola such as Rumble Fish (1983), The Cotton Club (1984), and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). He received critical success for his roles in Moonstruck and Raising Arizona (both 1987), before earning an Academy Award for Best Actor for
552-482: A $ 13 million budget. Coppola reunited with George Lucas, who served as executive producer, and directed Tucker: The Man and His Dream the year after that. The film is a biopic based on the life of Preston Tucker and his attempt to produce and market the Tucker '48 ; Coppola had originally conceived the project as a musical with Marlon Brando leading after the release of The Godfather Part II . Ultimately, it
690-541: A Beckerman Award for his outstanding contributions to the school's theater arts division. While a graduate student, Coppola studied under professor Dorothy Arzner , whose encouragement was later acknowledged as pivotal to Coppola's career. After earning his theater arts degree from Hofstra in 1960, Coppola enrolled in UCLA Film School . There, he directed a short horror film, The Two Christophers , inspired by Edgar Allan Poe 's " William Wilson " and Ayamonn
828-417: A brief draft in one night, incorporating elements from Hitchcock's Psycho , and the result impressed Corman enough to give the go-ahead. On a budget of $ 40,000 ($ 20,000 from Corman and $ 20,000 from another producer who wanted to buy the movie's English rights), Coppola directed Dementia 13 over the course of nine days. The film recouped its expenses and later became a cult film among horror buffs. It
966-549: A chance. He decided to name his future studio "Zoetrope" after receiving a gift of zoetropes from Mogens Scot-Hansen, founder of a studio called Lanterna Film and owner of a famous collection of early motion picture-making equipment. While touring Europe, Coppola was introduced to alternative filmmaking equipment and, inspired by the bohemian spirit of Lanterna Film, decided he would build a deviant studio that would conceive and implement unconventional approaches to filmmaking. Upon his return home, Coppola and George Lucas searched for
1104-622: A character named Grug Crood. The Croods received positive reviews from critics and was a box-office success grossing $ 585 million against a budget of $ 135 million. He starred as main character in The Frozen Ground , a thriller crime drama film directed and written by Scott Walker in his directorial debut , based on the crimes of real-life Alaskan serial killer Robert Hansen . The film, reunited him with Cusack, depicts an Alaskan State Trooper, played by Cage, seeking to apprehend Hansen, played by Cusack, by partnering with
1242-801: A con artist with obsessive–compulsive disorder . Most of Cage's movies that have achieved financial success were in the action/adventure genre. These include The Rock , Con Air , Face/Off , and Gone in 60 Seconds , with Cage as a retired car thief. He took the lead role in the 2001 film Captain Corelli's Mandolin and learned to play the mandolin from scratch for the part. In 2002, he was again nominated for Oscar and Golden Globe best actor awards for his portrayal of real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and Kaufman's fictional twin Donald in Adaptation. Cage made his directorial debut in 2002 with Sonny ,
1380-578: A contract killer who undergoes a change of heart while on a work outing in Bangkok, in the film Bangkok Dangerous . The film is shot by the Pang Brothers and has a distinctly South-East Asian flavor. In 2009, Cage starred in the science fiction thriller Knowing , directed by Alex Proyas . In the film, he plays an MIT professor who examines the contents of a time capsule unearthed at his son's elementary school. Startling predictions found inside
1518-802: A corrupt police officer with gambling, drug and alcohol addictions. The film was very well received by critics, holding a rating of 87% positive reviews on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes . Cage was lauded for his performance, with Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune writing "Herzog has found his ideal interpreter, a performer whose truth lies deep in the artifice of performance: ladies and gentlemen, Nicolas Cage, at his finest." This film reunited Cage with Eva Mendes , who played his love interest in Ghost Rider . In 2010, Cage starred in The Sorcerer's Apprentice , in which he played
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#17327795854121656-555: A dangerous adventure to find treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers of the United States . In 2005, two films he headlined, Lord of War and The Weather Man , failed to find a significant audience despite nationwide releases and good reviews for his performances. The 2006 remake of The Wicker Man was very poorly reviewed, and failed to make back its $ 40-million budget. In early December 2006, Cage announced at
1794-474: A dialogue director for Tower of London (1962), sound man for The Young Racers (1963) and associate producer and one of many uncredited directors for The Terror (1963). Coppola's first feature-length film was Dementia 13 (1963). While on location in Ireland for The Young Racers in 1963, Corman persuaded Coppola to use that film's leftover funds to make a low-budget horror movie. Coppola wrote
1932-446: A family of 2nd-degree Italian immigrants. His paternal grandparents came to the United States from Bernalda , Basilicata . His maternal grandfather, popular Italian composer Francesco Pennino, emigrated from Naples , Italy . At the time of Coppola's birth, his father—in addition to being a flautist—was an arranger and assistant orchestra director for The Ford Sunday Evening Hour , an hour-long concert music radio series sponsored by
2070-407: A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton . Coppola credited his inspiration for making the film to a suggestion from middle school students who had read the novel. The Outsiders is notable for being the breakout film for a number of young actors who would go on to become major stars. These included major roles for Matt Dillon , Ralph Macchio , and C. Thomas Howell . Also in
2208-467: A film with such a title, as the audience would supposedly believe that, having already seen The Godfather , there was little reason to see an addition to the original film. However, the success of The Godfather Part II began the Hollywood tradition of numbered sequels. The movie was released in 1974 and went on to receive tremendous critical acclaim, with many deeming it superior to its predecessor. It
2346-588: A former chef turned reclusive truffle -forager who must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped. Cage received critical acclaim for his performance and earned a second nomination for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor . He gained further acclaim for portraying a fictionalized version of himself in the 2022 action comedy film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent as well as for his portrayal of Paul,
2484-643: A helicopter pilot in the action film Fire Birds , which was panned by critics and negatively compared to Top Gun (1986). Cage's next film, the erotic thriller Zandalee (1991), was released direct-to-video in the United States, where it did not receive a theatrical release. His "goofy ' everyman '" performance in the romantic comedy Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) garnered some positive critical notices, including from Roger Ebert, who defended Cage amidst some critics finding his acting "excessive" and earned Cage his second Golden Globe nomination. He hosted an episode of
2622-401: A kind of presentation style of acting that I imagine was popular with the old troubadours." Film director David Lynch described him as "the jazz musician of American acting." Many critics have accused Cage of overacting . Others, including Cage himself, have described his intentionally extreme performances as "mega-acting." After the actor's series of mainstream-marketed thriller films during
2760-541: A lairy, nasty, tasty crime thriller built on black-comic chaos." Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "A rare film to have been shot in Cleveland, Dog Eat Dog definitely looks like it was shot on the cheap but puts what it needs to up on the screen with vigor and wit." Cage starred alongside Selma Blair and Anne Winters in Brian Taylor 's horror comedy film , Mom and Dad , which premiered in
2898-550: A low sum and budget after the poor reception of his latest film The Rain People . Coppola initially turned down the job because he found Puzo's novel sleazy and sensationalist, describing it as "pretty cheap stuff". At the time, Coppola's studio American Zoetrope owed over $ 400,000 to Warner Bros. for budget overruns in the film THX 1138 and, when coupled with his poor financial standing, along with advice from friends and family, Coppola reversed his initial decision and took
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#17327795854123036-492: A low-budget drama starring James Franco as a male prostitute whose mother ( Brenda Blethyn ) serves as his pimp. Cage had a small role in the film, which received poor reviews and a short run in a limited number of theaters. Cage's producing career includes Shadow of the Vampire , the first effort from Saturn Films. In his second-highest-grossing film to date, National Treasure , he plays an eccentric historian who goes on
3174-526: A mansion in Marin County to house the studio. However, in 1969, with equipment flowing in and no mansion found yet, the first home for Zoetrope Studio became a warehouse in San Francisco on Folsom Street . The studio went on to become an early adopter of digital filmmaking, including some of the earliest uses of HDTV . In his 1968 book The American Cinema , Andrew Sarris wrote: "[Coppola]
3312-528: A masterpiece of the New Hollywood era and is frequently cited as one of the greatest movies ever made. Roger Ebert considered it to be the finest film on the Vietnam War and included it in his list for the 2002 Sight & Sound critics' poll of the greatest movies ever made. In 2001, Coppola re-released Apocalypse Now as Apocalypse Now Redux , restoring several sequences lost from
3450-458: A member of Writers Guild of America West , left and maintained financial core status in 1986. Also in 1986, Coppola released the comedy Peggy Sue Got Married starring Kathleen Turner , Coppola's nephew Nicolas Cage , and Jim Carrey . Much like The Outsiders and Rumble Fish , Peggy Sue Got Married centered around teenage youth. The film earned Coppola positive feedback and provided Kathleen Turner her first and only Oscar nomination. It
3588-995: A notoriously lengthy and strenuous production , was widely acclaimed for vividly depicting the Vietnam War . It also won the Palme d'Or, making Coppola one of only ten filmmakers to have won the award twice. Coppola later directed notable films such as The Outsiders and Rumble Fish (both 1983), The Cotton Club (1984), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), The Godfather Part III (1990), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and The Rainmaker (1997). Coppola has acted as producer on such diverse films as American Graffiti (1973), The Black Stallion (1979), The Escape Artist (1982), Hammett (1982), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) and The Secret Garden (1993). Many of Coppola's relatives and children have become popular actors and filmmakers: his sister Talia Shire
3726-474: A pair of ex-convicts hired to kidnap a baby. The film had its premiere as the closing entry for the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2016. It was released on November 4, 2016, in the United States. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film four out of five stars, writing, "It's the right director for the right project and the result is Schrader's best for years:
3864-601: A production assistant on his next film The Rain People in 1969. The Rain People was written, directed, and initially produced by Coppola himself, though as the movie advanced, he exceeded his budget and the studio had to underwrite the remainder of the movie. The film won the Golden Shell at the 1969 San Sebastian Film Festival . In 1969, Coppola wanted to subvert the studio system, which he felt had stifled his visions, intending to produce mainstream pictures to finance off-beat projects and give first-time directors
4002-458: A professor who begins appearing in the dreams of others, in the 2023 Dream Scenario , resulting in his fifth Golden Globe nomination. In the 2023 horror comedy film Renfield , inspired by the 1897 Bram Stoker novel Dracula , Cage portrays Dracula opposite Nicholas Hoult 's Renfield . Also in 2023, Cage was included as a playable character in the horror video game Dead by Daylight . Cage reprised his role as Clark Kent / Superman in
4140-526: A serial killer more than an angel." Brian De Palma 's thriller Snake Eyes , his second film of 1998, starred Cage as a corrupt detective. The film was met with mixed reviews, which were largely critical of its screenplay. Other films included Martin Scorsese 's 1999 New York City paramedic drama Bringing Out the Dead and Ridley Scott 's 2003 black comedy crime film Matchstick Men , in which he played
4278-415: A son, Weston Coppola Cage (born December 26, 1990). Weston has been involved in two black metal bands, and appeared in his father's film Lord of War as a helicopter mechanic, and in the 2014 film Rage as Nicolas's character younger. Through Weston, Cage has two grandsons born in 2014 and 2016. In July 2024, Weston was arrested for assaulting numerous people with a deadly weapon, including his mother; he
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4416-453: A theater arts major. There, he was awarded a scholarship in playwriting. This furthered his interest in directing theater, though his father disapproved and wanted him to study engineering. Coppola was profoundly impressed by Sergei Eisenstein 's film October: Ten Days That Shook the World , especially the quality of its editing , and decided to pursue cinema rather than theater. He said he
4554-627: A year. Both Schafer's film and The Peeper featured Marli Renfro, so the producers paid Coppola $ 500 to combine the two films. After Coppola re-edited the picture, it was released in 1962 as the softcore comedy Tonight for Sure . Another production company, Screen Rite Pictures, hired Coppola to do a similar job: re-cutting a German film titled Mit Eva fing die Sünde an [ de ] ( Sin Began with Eve ), directed by Fritz Umgelter . Coppola added new color footage with British model June Wilkinson and other nude starlets. The re-edited film
4692-535: A young woman who escaped from Hansen's clutches. The film has received mixed reviews though Cage's performance was cited as a highlight and solid. He also starred in Joe , an independent crime drama film directed and co-produced by David Gordon Green , adaptation from Larry Brown 's 1991 novel of the same name. In this film Nicolas Cage is a tormented man who hires a 15-year-old boy (played by Tye Sheridan ) and protects him from his abusive father. The film premiered at
4830-417: Is a nephew of both director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire , and a cousin of directors Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola , film producer Gian-Carlo Coppola , and actors Robert and Jason Schwartzman . Cage is the youngest of three sons. His two brothers are New York radio personality Marc "The Cope" Coppola and director Christopher Coppola . He attended Beverly Hills High School , which
4968-492: Is about: How do you augment your imagination in a healthy way? So that you can believe you're these characters… You don't feel like you're acting, you feel like you're being. In the film Vampire's Kiss Cage transforms from method acting to "Nouveau Shamanic." The scene where Cage recites the alphabet to his psychiatrist was a result of acting out of impulse. Raising Arizona showcases just how physically engaging Nouveau Shamanic can become. Not holding back proves to add to
5106-667: Is an actress, his daughter Sofia is a director, his son Roman is a screenwriter, and his nephews Jason Schwartzman and Nicolas Cage are actors. Coppola resides in Napa, California , and since the 2010s has been a vintner , owning a family-branded winery of his own. Francis Ford Coppola was born in Detroit , Michigan , to father Carmine Coppola (1910–1991), a flautist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra , and mother Italia Coppola (née Pennino; 1912–2004),
5244-584: Is known for its many alumni who became entertainers. He aspired to act from an early age and also attended UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television . His first non-cinematic acting experience was in a school production of Golden Boy . He said he started acting because he "wanted to be James Dean . I saw him in Rebel Without a Cause , East of Eden . Nothing affected me—no rock song, no classical music—the way Dean affected me in Eden . It blew my mind. I
5382-576: Is probably the first reasonably talented and sensibly adaptable directorial talent to emerge from a university curriculum in film-making ... [He] may be heard from more decisively in the future." Coppola was at the forefront of a group of filmmakers known as " New Hollywood " that emerged in the early 1970s, with ideas that challenged conventional filmmaking. The group included George Lucas , Martin Scorsese , Brian De Palma , Steven Spielberg , Terrence Malick , Robert Altman , Woody Allen , William Friedkin , and Philip Kaufman . Coppola co-wrote
5520-558: Is the recipient of five Academy Awards , six Golden Globe Awards , two Palmes d'Or , and a BAFTA Award . After directing The Rain People in 1969, Coppola co-wrote Patton (1970), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay along with Edmund H. North . Coppola's reputation as a filmmaker was cemented with the release of The Godfather (1972) which won three Academy Awards for Best Picture , Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay and revolutionized
5658-408: Is usually interesting even when his films are not. He is erratic and unpredictable; he is captivating and he is capricious. He is a performer. He is a troubadour. He is a jazz musician." — Luke Buckmaster , The Guardian According to The Guardian film critic Luke Buckmaster, "any casual observer can see that Cage is entertaining, charismatic and wildly flamboyant." Attributing it partly to
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5796-478: The 70th Venice International Film Festival on August 30, 2013, with a subsequent screening at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival . It was a box office flop , grossing only $ 2.36 million from a $ 4 million budget, but received critical acclaim from critics, who praised Cage's performance and Green's direction. The 2016 black comedy Dog Eat Dog , Cage's second film with Paul Schrader , reunited him with Willem Dafoe (after Wild at Heart ) as
5934-502: The Academy Award for Best Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama . To prepare for the part, Cage binge drank for two weeks and studied footage of himself. In 1996, he starred alongside Sean Connery and Ed Harris in Michael Bay 's The Rock , the first of a string of action films for Cage. In the film, he played an FBI chemical weapons specialist breaking into Alcatraz federal prison. The Rock
6072-597: The Academy Award for Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Coppola. The film routinely features at the top in various polls for the greatest movies ever. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry , and was ranked third, behind Citizen Kane and Casablanca , on the initial AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list by the American Film Institute in 1997. It
6210-603: The BBC writing in their review "Travolta and Cage invest their dual roles with physical subtleties that reflect the other actor's character." After starring in these action films back-to-back, Cage decided to "return to more serious fare" in the romantic fantasy film City of Angels (1998), a loose remake of the German film Wings of Desire (1987). Critics were split on the film and Cage's performance, with reviews ranging from describing him as "endlessly resourceful" and "[resembling]
6348-642: The Coen brothers ' Raising Arizona (1987) and John Patrick Shanley 's Moonstruck (1987) before earning an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Leaving Las Vegas (1995). Following his awards win he starred in the award winning blockbusters The Rock (1996), and Con Air (1997) as well as the drama Face/Off (1997) and the romantic drama City of Angels (1998). He starred in Martin Scorsese 's drama Bringing Out
6486-627: The Ford Motor Company . Coppola was born at Henry Ford Hospital , and those two connections to Henry Ford inspired the Coppolas to choose the middle name "Ford" for their son. Francis is the middle of three children: his older brother was August Coppola , and his younger sister is actress Talia Shire . Two years after Coppola's birth, his father was named principal flutist for the NBC Symphony Orchestra , and
6624-482: The United States Marine Corps . In Coppola's crime drama The Cotton Club he portrayed a fictionalized version of mob hitman Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll , earning praise from critic Paul Attanasio for "artfully [using] his few moments to sketch a brawny, violent thug." His final release of the year was Alan Parker 's drama Birdy , in which he starred with Matthew Modine . Cage lost weight for
6762-662: The Vietnam War . Coppola himself briefly cameos as a TV news director. The production of the film was plagued by numerous problems, including typhoons, nervous breakdowns, the firing of Harvey Keitel , Martin Sheen 's heart attack, and extras from the Philippine military and half of the supplied helicopters leaving in the middle of scenes to fight rebels. It was delayed so often it was nicknamed Apocalypse When? The 1991 documentary film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse , directed by Francis's wife, Eleanor Coppola , who
6900-534: The film industry , Cage was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1998 with a motion pictures star located at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard . In May 2001, Cage was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts by California State University, Fullerton . He spoke at the commencement ceremony. Cage has also been nominated for an Academy Award twice. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in
7038-584: The gangster genre of filmmaking, receiving strong commercial and critical reception. He directed The Godfather Part II (1974) which also won Best Picture with Coppola earning the Best Director . Also in 1974, Coppola released the thriller The Conversation , which received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival . His next film, the war epic Apocalypse Now (1979), which had
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#17327795854127176-459: The " Life Without Zoë " segment, starring his sister Talia Shire , and also co-wrote the film with his daughter Sofia . "Life Without Zoë" was mostly panned by critics and was generally considered to be the segment that brought the film's overall quality down. Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote a particularly scathing review, stating: "It's impossible to know what Francis Coppola's Life Without Zoë is. Co-written with his daughter Sofia,
7314-477: The "100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century" as well as Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list. It was also featured on Sight & Sound 's list of the ten greatest films of all time in 2002, ranking at No. 4. Coppola was the third director to have two nominations for Best Picture in the same year. Victor Fleming was the first in 1939 with Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz ; Alfred Hitchcock repeated
7452-488: The "well-cultured" background of Cage's family, Buckmaster said the actor "is clearly attracted to grotesque characters and is celebrated for his wild and unhinged approach to them. He has the presence of a leading man, and the eccentricities of a character actor." Actor Ethan Hawke stated in 2013 that Cage is "the only actor since Marlon Brando that's actually done anything new with the art", crediting him for taking film audiences "away from an obsession with naturalism into
7590-399: The 2023 film The Flash in a cameo appearance as an alternate version of the superhero. Cage shot his scenes through volumetric capture and CGI was used to de-age him. In early 2023, it was announced Cage was set to play a live action version of Peter Parker / Spider-Man Noir on Amazon Prime Video . The show would take place in an alternate 1930s New York City. In July 2024, the show
7728-653: The Bahamas International Film Festival that he planned to curtail his future acting endeavors to pursue other interests. On The Dresden Files for the Sci-Fi Channel , Cage is listed as the executive producer. The much-criticized Ghost Rider (2007), based on the Marvel Comics character , fared better, earning more than $ 45 million (the top earner) during its opening weekend and over $ 208 million worldwide through
7866-671: The Dead (1999), The Family Man (2000), Matchstick Men (2003), and The Wicker Man (2006). He has voiced characters in The Croods film series (2013–2020) and in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018). He earned renewed critical recognition for his starring roles in Mandy (2018), Pig (2021), The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022), Dream Scenario (2023) and Longlegs (2024). Cage owns
8004-644: The Dead and Charlie Kauffman 's Adaptation , the latter earning him his second Academy Award nomination. He has since received nominations for best and worst actor for his role in the National Treasure films in 2004, 2007 and was nominated for worst actor again for the Ghost Rider films in 2007 and 2011. In the 21st century he has earned renewed critical acclaim for his performances in independent dramas such as Joe (2013), Mandy (2018), Color Out of Space (2019), and Pig (2021),
8142-496: The Ghostland , starring Nicolas Cage. Cage said the film "might be the wildest movie I've ever made." Its plot revolves around a notorious criminal, Hero (played by Cage), who is sent to rescue the governor's adopted granddaughter, who has disappeared into a dark region called Ghostland. The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 31, 2021. In May 2020, it was announced that Cage would be playing
8280-581: The Midnight Madness portion of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival , where Cage was awarded for his role with the Creative Coalition's Spotlight Initiative Award. Following select preview screenings on January 22, the film was released in 81 theaters in the United States on January 24, 2020. In December 2018, it was announced that Sion Sono was working on his first overseas production and English-language debut, Prisoners of
8418-431: The Midnight Madness section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival . It was released in theaters on January 19, 2018, and received positive reviews from critics, with review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes defining his performance as "over-the-top." Director John Waters appreciated the film, naming Mom and Dad as one of the best movies of 2018, placing it fourth on his personal top list. In 2018, Cage starred in
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#17327795854128556-480: The Narrator of the film, reading various Anton's writings. In December 2018, it was announced that Cage had signed to play the lead role for Richard Stanley 's Color Out of Space , based on the short story " The Colour Out of Space " by H. P. Lovecraft . This was Stanley's first feature film directed since his firing from The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996). Color Out of Space premiered on September 7, 2019, in
8694-611: The Spider-Verse (2018). Cage based his vocal performance on films of Humphrey Bogart , James Cagney , and Edward G. Robinson . On January 28, 2019, Viktor and Irina Yelchin premiered a documentary about their son Anton Yelchin , Love, Antosha , at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival . The documentary was directed by Garret Price and contains various interviews with some of Anton's friends and collaborators such as Kristen Stewart , J. J. Abrams , Chris Pine , Jennifer Lawrence , Jodie Foster , John Cho and Martin Landau . Cage starred as
8832-682: The Terrible , a film about a sculptor's nightmares coming to life. He also met undergraduate film major Jim Morrison , future frontman of The Doors . Coppola later used Morrison's song " The End " in Apocalypse Now . In the early 1960s, Coppola made $ 10 per week (roughly equivalent to $ 100 per week today). Looking for a way to earn some extra money, he found that many colleagues from film school made money filming erotic productions known as "nudie-cuties" or "skin flicks", which showed nudity without implying any sexual act. At 21, Coppola wrote
8970-503: The Third Army, set against a huge American flag. Coppola and North had to tone down Patton's actual language to avoid an R rating ; in the opening monologue, the word "fornicating" replaced "fucking" when criticizing The Saturday Evening Post . Over the years, this opening monologue has become an iconic scene and has spawned parodies in numerous films, political cartoons, and television shows. The release of The Godfather in 1972
9108-545: The Watergate break-in. However, the audience interpreted the film as a reaction to both the Watergate scandal and its fallout. The movie was a critical success and got Coppola his first Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival . During the filming of The Conversation , Coppola wrote the screenplay for The Great Gatsby . However, in the commentary track to the DVD of The Godfather, Coppola states, "I don't think that script
9246-649: The action thriller film Mandy , which premiered on January 19 at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival . Nick Allen of RogerEbert.com praised the movie, writing that "for all of the endless feral performances that Cage has given, in movies good, bad and forgettable, Cosmatos' style-driven, '80s-tastic passion for weird worlds and characters takes full advantage of Cage's greatness, and then some." In October, Mandy' s producer Elijah Wood announced his intention to size up an Oscar campaign for Nicolas Cage and for composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (who died in February of that year) but
9384-506: The appearance of nepotism as Coppola's nephew. His choice of name was inspired by the Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage and composer John Cage . Cage made his acting debut in the 1981 television pilot The Best of Times , which was never picked up by ABC . His film debut followed in 1982, with a minor role as an unnamed co-worker of Judge Reinhold 's character in the coming-of-age film Fast Times at Ridgemont High , having originally auditioned for Reinhold's part. His experience on
9522-480: The basis of Brando's screen test, which also won over the Paramount leadership. Brando later won an Academy Award for his portrayal, which he refused to accept. Coppola would later recollect: The Godfather was a very unappreciated movie when we were making it. They were very unhappy with it. They didn't like the cast. They didn't like the way I was shooting it. I was always on the verge of getting fired. So it
9660-549: The box office, earning a meager $ 2.5 million against a $ 10 million budget and once again aggravating Coppola's financial troubles. In 1984, Coppola directed the Robert Evans -produced The Cotton Club . The film was nominated for several awards, including the Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Picture (Drama) and Oscars for Best Film Editing and Best Art-Direction. However, the film failed miserably at
9798-553: The box-office, earning only $ 25.9 million of the $ 47.9 million privately invested by brothers Fred and Ed Doumani. The same year, he directed an episode of Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre entitled "Rip Van Winkle" (based on the short story ), where Harry Dean Stanton played the lead role. In 1986, Coppola directed Captain EO , a 17-minute space fantasy for Disney theme parks executive produced by George Lucas , starring singer Michael Jackson . Coppola, formerly
9936-421: The capsule that have already come true lead him to believe that the world is going to end at the close of the week and that he and his son are somehow involved in the destruction. The film received mixed reviews but was the box office winner on its opening weekend. Also in 2009, Cage starred in the film Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans , directed by acclaimed German director Werner Herzog . He portrayed
10074-493: The cast to the Napa Valley for much of the outdoor shooting, but those scenes were in sharp contrast to those filmed on a Hollywood soundstage, resulting in a disjointed look to the film. Dealing with outdated material at a time when the popularity of film musicals was already waning, Clark received a Golden Globe Best Actress nomination. The film introduced Coppola to George Lucas , who became his lifelong friend as well as
10212-474: The cast were Patrick Swayze , Rob Lowe (in his film debut), Emilio Estevez , Diane Lane , and Tom Cruise . Matt Dillon and several others also starred in Coppola's related film Rumble Fish , which was also based on an S. E. Hinton novel and filmed at the same time as The Outsiders on-location in Tulsa, Oklahoma . Carmine Coppola wrote and edited the musical score, including the title song "Stay Gold", which
10350-418: The casting of Coppola's daughter Sofia , who stepped into the leading role of Mary Corleone , which was abandoned by Winona Ryder just as filming began. Despite this, The Godfather Part III went on to gather seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Picture . The film failed to win any of these awards, which made it the only film in the trilogy to do so. In September 2020, for
10488-567: The dramatic film Leaving Las Vegas (1995). He was Oscar-nominated for playing twins Charlie and Donald Kaufman in the comedy-drama film Adaptation (2002). Cage established himself in mainstream action films, such as The Rock (1996), Con Air (1997), Face/Off (1997), Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), the National Treasure film series (2004–2007), the Ghost Rider film series (2007–2011), and Kick-Ass (2010). He also took on dramatic roles in City of Angels (1998), Bringing Out
10626-491: The failure of One from the Heart (1982) compelled him to take up Paramount 's long-standing offer to make a third installment. Coppola and Puzo preferred the title The Death of Michael Corleone , but Paramount Pictures found that unacceptable. While not as critically acclaimed as the first two films, it was still commercially successful, earning $ 136 million against a $ 54 million budget. Some reviewers criticized
10764-561: The family moved to New York. They settled in Woodside, Queens , where Coppola spent the remainder of his childhood. Having contracted polio as a boy, Coppola was bedridden for large periods of his childhood, during which he did homemade puppet theater productions. He developed an interest in theater after reading A Streetcar Named Desire at age 15. He created 8 mm feature films edited from home movies with titles such as The Rich Millionaire and The Lost Wallet . Although Coppola
10902-679: The feat the next year with Foreign Correspondent and Rebecca . Since Coppola, two other directors have done the same: Herbert Ross in 1977 with The Goodbye Girl and The Turning Point , and Steven Soderbergh in 2000 with Erin Brockovich and Traffic . Coppola, however, is the only one to have produced the pictures nominated. Following the success of The Godfather , The Conversation , and The Godfather Part II , Coppola began filming Apocalypse Now , an adaptation of Joseph Conrad 's Heart of Darkness set in Cambodia during
11040-668: The film Leaving Las Vegas in 1995. He was nominated for a second one for his role in the film Adaptation in 2002. He also won a Golden Globe award , Screen Actors Guild award , and many more awards for Leaving Las Vegas . He has received nominations by the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and BAFTA for his films Adaptation , Honeymoon in Vegas , and Moonstruck. He has also won and been nominated for many other awards . Cage has been married five times and has three children (with Fulton, Kim and Shibata). In 1988, Cage began dating actress Christina Fulton , with whom he has
11178-399: The film alienated potential buyers, who did not find the 12-minute short exciting enough to screen in adult theaters . After much rejection, Coppola received an opportunity from Premier Pictures Company, a small production company that invested in an adult production called The Wide Open Spaces , an erotic western written and directed by Jerry Schafer, which had been shelved for more than
11316-458: The film because its director, George Gallo , offered little direction. Cage's performance as a psychopathic criminal kingpin in the crime film Kiss of Death (1995) was seen by many critics as the film's strong point, but his most acclaimed performance yet came in the drama Leaving Las Vegas as an alcoholic screenwriter who falls in love with a prostitute in Las Vegas . The role won Cage
11454-412: The film industry today, ended with a disastrous box-office gross of US$ 636,796 against a $ 26-million budget, and he was forced to sell the 23-acre Zoetrope Studio in 1983. He would spend the rest of the decade working to pay off his debts. Zoetrope Studios finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1990, after which its name was changed to American Zoetrope . In 1983, he directed The Outsiders ,
11592-432: The film is a mystifying embarrassment; it's by far the director's worst work yet." In 1990, he released the third and final chapter of The Godfather series: The Godfather Part III . Coppola felt that the first two films had told the complete Corleone saga. Coppola intended Part III to be an epilogue to the first two films. In his audio commentary for Part II , he stated that only a dire financial situation caused by
11730-424: The film that "Nic was a complete gentleman, and he understood that my heart was with Mickey and he stepped aside. I have so much respect for Nic Cage as an actor and I think it really could have worked with Nic but ... you know, Nic was incredibly supportive of Mickey and he is old friends with Mickey and really wanted to help with this opportunity, so he pulled himself out of the race." In 2008, Cage appeared as Joe,
11868-589: The film utilized the very same surveillance and wire-tapping equipment that members of the Nixon administration used to spy on political opponents prior to the Watergate scandal . Coppola insisted that this was purely coincidental, as the script for The Conversation was completed in the mid-1960s (before the election of Richard Nixon ) and the spying equipment used in the film was developed through research and use of technical advisers and not by newspaper stories about
12006-560: The film was disqualified because it was also released on Video On Demand on September 14. Later that year, Cage voiced Clark Kent / Superman in the animated film Teen Titans Go! To the Movies . He had originally been slated to portray Superman in Tim Burton 's canceled Superman film, Superman Lives , in the 1990s. He voiced an alternate monochromatic 1930s universe version of Peter Parker / Spider-Man Noir in Spider-Man: Into
12144-406: The film was marred by cast members endlessly quoting his uncle's films, which inspired him to change his name. Cage's first starring role came opposite Deborah Foreman in the romantic comedy Valley Girl (1983), in which he played a punk who falls in love with the titular valley girl , a plot loosely inspired by Romeo and Juliet . The film was a modest box office success and has been branded
12282-564: The film's 30th anniversary, it was announced that a new cut of the film titled Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone would have a limited theatrical release in December 2020 followed by digital and Blu-ray. Coppola said the film is the version he and Puzo had originally envisioned, and it "vindicates" its status among the trilogy and his daughter Sofia's performance. In 1992, Coppola directed and produced Bram Stoker's Dracula . Adapted from Bram Stoker 's novel , it
12420-624: The job. Coppola was officially announced as director of the film on September 28, 1970. He agreed to receive $ 125,000 and six percent of the gross rentals. Coppola later found a deeper theme for the material and decided it should be not just be a film about organized crime, but also a family chronicle and a metaphor for capitalism in America. There was disagreement between Paramount and Coppola on casting; Coppola wanted to cast Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone , though Paramount wanted either Ernest Borgnine or Danny Thomas . At one point, Coppola
12558-636: The late 1990s, Sean Penn told The New York Times in 1999 that Cage was "no longer an actor" but "more like a performer." Despite this, in his speech after winning the Oscar for his performance in Mystic River , Penn described Cage's work (in Matchstick Men ) as one of the best performances of 2003. During the 2010s, a growing number of film critics described Cage as one of the most underrated actors of his generation. For his contributions to
12696-429: The latter earning him a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor nomination. Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola ( / ˈ k oʊ p əl ə / KOH -pə-lə , Italian: [ˈkɔppola] ; born April 7, 1939) is an American filmmaker. He is considered one of the leading figures of the New Hollywood film movement and is widely considered one of the greatest directors of all time. Coppola
12834-478: The little-seen Canadian sports drama The Boy in Blue and his uncle's fantasy comedy Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) as the husband to Kathleen Turner 's character. He then starred in the Coen brothers ' crime comedy Raising Arizona (1987) as a dim-witted ex-con. Cage's biggest breakthrough came in 1987 with the romantic comedy Moonstruck , in which he starred alongside Cher as a hot-tempered baker. The film
12972-428: The original 1979 cut of the film, thereby expanding its length to 200 minutes. In 2019, Coppola re-released Apocalypse Now once more as Apocalypse Now (Final Cut) , claiming that version to be his favorite. Apocalypse Now marked the end of the 'golden phase' of Coppola's career. His 1982 musical fantasy One from the Heart , although pioneering the use of video-editing techniques that are standard practice in
13110-408: The other of his son Michael . In the director's commentary on the DVD edition of the film (released in 2002), Coppola states that this film was the first major motion picture to use "Part II" in its title. Paramount was initially opposed to his decision to name the movie The Godfather Part II . According to Coppola, the studio's objection stemmed from the belief that audiences would be reluctant to see
13248-578: The production company Saturn Films and has produced films such as Shadow of the Vampire (2000) and The Life of David Gale (2003), and has directed Sonny (2002). For his contributions to the film industry, he was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1998. He was ranked No. 40 in Empire magazine's The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list in 2007 and was placed No. 37 in Premiere ' s 100 Most Powerful People in Hollywood in 2008. Cage
13386-471: The rights to the David Benedictus novel You're a Big Boy Now and merged it with a story idea of his own, resulting in his UCLA thesis project You're a Big Boy Now (1966), which earned Coppola his Master of Fine Arts Degree from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 1967. The film also received a theatrical release via Warner Bros and earned critical acclaim. Geraldine Page
13524-430: The role and had two of his front teeth pulled out to appear disfigured. Despite massively underperforming at the box office, the film, and Cage and Modine's performances, received positive reviews, with The New York Times critic Janet Maslin writing, "Mr. Cage very sympathetically captures Al's urgency and frustration. Together, these actors work miracles with what might have been unplayable." In 1986, Cage starred in
13662-510: The role of Joe Exotic in a scripted eight-episode Tiger King series, written and executive produced by Dan Lagana . It was announced that the project was scrapped in July 2021. In 2013, it was confirmed that Nicolas Cage would reprise his role as Grug in The Croods: A New Age , which was released in 2020. Cage produced and starred in the 2021 film Pig , where he plays Robin "Rob" Feld,
13800-752: The role to Cage after being impressed with his performances in Leaving Las Vegas and The Rock . Cage accepted despite disappointment at not being offered the villain role. Ebert felt Cage "[made] the wrong choice... by playing Cameron Poe as a slow-witted Elvis type who is very, very earnest and approaches every task with tunnel vision; it would have been more fun if he'd been less of a hayseed." John Woo's Face/Off saw Cage and John Travolta star in dual roles as sworn enemies—a terrorist and an FBI agent —who both undergo face transplants to impersonate each other, requiring Cage and Travolta to switch characters. Both performances were praised by critics, with
13938-407: The script for Patton starting in 1963 along with Edmund H. North . This earned him his first Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay . However, it was not easy for Coppola to convince Franklin J. Schaffner that the opening scene would work. Coppola later revealed in an interview, I wrote the script of Patton . And the script was very controversial when I wrote it, because they thought it
14076-402: The script for The Peeper , a comedy short film about a voyeur who tries to spy on a sensual photo shoot in the studio next to his apartment. Coppola found an interested producer, who gave him $ 3,000 to shoot the film. He hired Playboy Bunny Marli Renfro to play the model and had his friend Karl Schanzer play the voyeur. With The Peeper finished, Coppola found that the cartoonish aspects of
14214-512: The sorcerer, and the next year, headlined the period piece Season of the Witch , as a 14th-century knight transporting a woman accused of causing the Black Plague to a monastery. In 2011, Cage reprised his role in Ghost Rider's sequel Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance . In 2013, Cage was involved in many projects. Notable films including animated film The Croods , in which he voiced
14352-864: The unique effect this method has on the audience. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is a display of how the Nouveau Shamanic method transcribes to the screen with impulse decisions fueled by an energy one could only garner naturally. Cage was asked if any of his numerous pets influence his acting, to which he replied "The cobras, definitely. They would try to hypnotize you by going side to side, and when I did Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance , that's something my character does before he attacks. Animals are fun places to get inspiration." "In Cage's hands, cartoonish moments are imbued with real emotion and real emotions become cartoons. Everything – from individual scenes down to single lines of dialogue – feel like they have been embraced as opportunities for creation. Cage
14490-408: The variety show Saturday Night Live to promote the film, his only time hosting the show. None of Cage's three films in 1993— Deadfall (directed by his brother Christopher ), Amos & Andrew and Red Rock West —performed well at the box office. The comedy Guarding Tess (1994) paired Cage with Shirley MacLaine as a Secret Service agent protecting a former First Lady ; however, it
14628-621: The weekend ending on March 25, 2007. Also in 2007, he had a small but notable role as the Chinese criminal mastermind Dr. Fu Manchu in Rob Zombie 's fake trailer Werewolf Women of the S.S. from the B-movie double feature Grindhouse and starred in Next , which shared the concept of a glimpse into an alternate timeline with Cage's film, The Family Man (2000). In November 2007, Cage
14766-642: Was Jeff Bridges who played the role of Preston Tucker. Budgeted at $ 24 million, the film received positive reviews and earned three nominations at the 62nd Academy Awards , but grossed a disappointing $ 19.65 million at the box office. It garnered two awards: Martin Landau won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and Dean Tavoularis took BAFTA's honors for Best Production Design . In 1989, Coppola teamed up with fellow Oscar -winning directors Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen for an anthology film called New York Stories . Coppola directed
14904-469: Was Coppola's first box-office success since The Outsiders and the film ranked number 17 on Entertainment Weekly ' s list of "50 Best High School Movies". The following year, Coppola re-teamed with James Caan for Gardens of Stone , but the film was overshadowed by the death of Coppola's eldest son Gian-Carlo during the film's production. The movie was not a critical success and underperformed commercially, earning only $ 5.6 million against
15042-470: Was [actually] made." Coppola shot The Godfather Part II in parallel to The Conversation . It was the last major American motion picture to be filmed in Technicolor . George Lucas commented on the film after its five-hour-long preview, telling Coppola, "You have two films. Take one away, it doesn't work," referring to the movie's portrayal of two parallel storylines, one of a young Vito Corleone and
15180-525: Was a box office and critical success, with journalist Alexander Larman stating the film "launched Cage into an unexpected vocation as an offbeat action star." Next, he starred in Con Air and Face/Off , two commercially successful action thrillers that were both released in June 1997. Along with John Cusack and John Malkovich , Cage led an ensemble cast . Jerry Bruckheimer , Con Air 's producer, offered
15318-536: Was a cinematic milestone. The near three hour-long epic, a film treatment of Mario Puzo 's New York Times-bestselling novel The Godfather , chronicling the saga of the Corleone family , received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and got Coppola the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay , which he shared with Mario Puzo, as well as Golden Globe Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay . However, Coppola faced several difficulties while filming. He
15456-408: Was a hit with critics and audiences alike, earning Cage a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy In his retrospective review, Roger Ebert wrote that he felt Cage's performance was worthy of an Oscar . In 1989, Cage starred in the black comedy Vampire's Kiss as a man who falls in love with a vampire and soon begins to believe himself as a vampire. The film
15594-614: Was a major box office flop but has developed a cult following largely due to Cage's surrealistic and over-the-top performance appearing in internet memes . Critic Vincent Canby felt the film was "dominated and destroyed by Mr. Cage's chaotic, self-indulgent performance." After filming the Italian drama Time to Kill (1989) in Zimbabwe , he starred in David Lynch 's romantic crime film Wild at Heart (1990) with Laura Dern . Cage
15732-494: Was a mediocre student, his interest in technology and engineering earned him the childhood nickname "Science". He trained initially for a career in music and became proficient in the tuba , eventually earning a music scholarship to the New York Military Academy . In all, Coppola attended 23 schools before he eventually graduated from Great Neck North High School . He entered Hofstra College in 1955 as
15870-450: Was an extremely nightmarish experience. I had two little kids, and the third one was born during that. We lived in a little apartment, and I was basically frightened that they didn't like it. They had as much as said that, so when it was all over I wasn't at all confident that it was going to be successful, and that I'd ever get another job. After it was released, the film received widespread praise. It went on to win multiple awards, including
16008-467: Was based upon a famous Robert Frost poem and performed for the movie by Stevie Wonder . That same year, he directed Rumble Fish , based on the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton, who also co-wrote the screenplay. Shot in black-and-white as an homage to German expressionist films , Rumble Fish centers on the relationship between a revered former gang leader ( Mickey Rourke ) and his younger brother, Rusty James ( Matt Dillon ). The film bombed at
16146-571: Was born in Long Beach, California , to August Coppola , a professor of literature, and Joy Vogelsang, a dancer and choreographer. He was raised in a Catholic family. His father was of Italian descent and his mother was of mainly German and Polish descent with some English and Scottish ancestry on her father's side. His paternal grandparents were composer Carmine Coppola and actress Italia Pennino , and his paternal great-grandparents were immigrants from Bernalda , Basilicata. Through his father, he
16284-532: Was confirmed to be titled Spider-Noir . Filming began in September 2024 in Los Angeles. Also in July, Cage starred as the titular serial killer in the horror thriller film Longlegs , which he produced. Nouveau Shamanic is a style of acting developed by Cage. Cage has said it is to increase one's imagination without restraint in avoidance of experiencing the sense of being ingenuous. The process itself
16422-562: Was dismissed as being derivative by some critics. He next starred alongside Bridget Fonda in the romantic comedy It Could Happen to You as a cash-strapped police officer who offers to share his lottery winnings with a waitress and then the much-criticized box office flop Christmas comedy Trapped in Paradise with the Saturday Night Live actors Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey . According to Lovitz, Cage directed portions of
16560-494: Was drawn to the project because he was "always attracted to those passionate, almost unbridled romantic characters" and it allowed him to impersonate one of his heroes, Elvis Presley , in scenes in which he sung. Wild at Heart received mixed reviews upon release, despite controversially winning the Palme d'Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival . Cage would reunite with Lynch and Dern for the avant-garde concert performance Industrial Symphony No. 1 . Also in 1990, he starred as
16698-509: Was elected president of the university's drama group The Green Wig, and its musical comedy club, the Kaleidoscopians. He merged the two groups into The Spectrum Players, and under his leadership, the group staged a new production each week. Coppola also founded the cinema workshop at Hofstra and contributed prolifically to the campus literary magazine. He won three D. H. Lawrence Awards for theatrical production and direction and received
16836-561: Was finalized on May 24, 2004. Cage's third wife was Alice Kim. They were married at a private ranch in northern California on July 30, 2004. She gave birth to their son Kal-El (after Superman 's birth name) on October 3, 2005. They divorced in January 2016. List of awards and nominations received by Nicolas Cage The following is a list of awards and nominations received by American actor, director and producer Nicolas Cage . In 1987, Cage earned critical success with films such as
16974-460: Was forgotten. And I remember very vividly this long, kind of being raked over the coals for this opening scene. When the title role was offered to George C. Scott, he remembered having read Coppola's screenplay earlier. He stated flatly that he would accept the part only if they used Coppola's script. "Scott is the one who resurrected my version," said Coppola. The movie opens with Scott's rendering of Patton's famous military "Pep Talk" to members of
17112-542: Was influenced to become a writer by his brother August. Coppola also credits the work of Elia Kazan for influencing him as a writer and director. Coppola's classmates at Hofstra included James Caan , Lainie Kazan , and radio artist Joe Frank . He later cast Lainie Kazan in One from the Heart and Caan in The Rain People , The Godfather , and Gardens of Stone . While pursuing his bachelor's degree, Coppola
17250-445: Was intended to follow the book more closely than previous film adaptations. Coppola cast Gary Oldman as the titular role, with Keanu Reeves , Winona Ryder , and Anthony Hopkins in supporting roles. The movie became a box-office hit, grossing $ 82,522,790 domestically, making it the 15th highest-grossing film of the year. It fared even better out of the country, grossing $ 133,339,902 for a total worldwide gross of $ 215,862,692 against
17388-461: Was like, 'That's what I want to do'." At age 15, he tried to convince his uncle, Francis Ford Coppola, to give him a screen test , telling him "I'll show you acting." His outburst was met with "silence in the car." By this stage of his career, Coppola had already directed Marlon Brando , Al Pacino , Gene Hackman and Robert De Niro . Although early in his career Cage appeared in some of his uncle's films, he changed his name to Nicolas Cage to avoid
17526-452: Was moved up to second when the list was published again in 2007. Director Stanley Kubrick believed that The Godfather was possibly the greatest movie ever made and certainly the best-cast. Coppola's next film, The Conversation , further cemented his position as one of the most talented auteurs of Hollywood. The movie was partly influenced by Michelangelo Antonioni 's Blowup (1966) and generated much interest when news leaked that
17664-559: Was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and received six Oscars, including three for Coppola: Best Picture , Best Adapted Screenplay , and Best Director . The Godfather Part II is ranked as the No. 1 greatest movie of all time in TV Guide 's "50 Best Movies of All Time" and is ranked at No. 7 on Entertainment Weekly 's list of the "100 Greatest Movies of All Time". The film is also featured on movie critic Leonard Maltin 's list of
17802-514: Was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for her performance. Following the success of You're a Big Boy Now , Coppola was offered to work on a movie version of the Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow , starring Petula Clark in her first American film and veteran Fred Astaire . Producer Jack L. Warner was not impressed by Coppola's shaggy-haired, bearded, " hippie " appearance and generally left him to his own devices. Coppola took
17940-429: Was not Paramount 's first choice to direct the movie; Italian director Sergio Leone was initially offered the job but declined in order to direct his own gangster opus, Once Upon a Time in America . Robert Evans wanted the picture to be directed by an Italian American to make the film "ethnic to the core". Evans' chief assistant Peter Bart suggested Coppola, as a director of Italian ancestry who would work for
18078-429: Was on the set of Dementia 13 that Coppola met the woman he would marry, Eleanor Jessie Neil . In 1965, Coppola won the annual Samuel Goldwyn Award for best screenplay ( Pilma, Pilma ) written by a UCLA student. The honor secured him a job as a scriptwriter with Seven Arts . During this time, Coppola also co-wrote the scripts for This Property Is Condemned (1966) and Is Paris Burning? (1966). Coppola bought
18216-450: Was overwhelmingly praised by critics when it finally released in 1979 and was selected for the 1979 Cannes Film Festival , winning the Palme d'Or along with The Tin Drum , directed by Volker Schlöndorff . When the film screened at Cannes, Coppola quipped, "My film is not about Vietnam, it is Vietnam." Apocalypse Now 's reputation has grown in time and it is now regarded by many as
18354-415: Was present through the production, Fax Bahr, and George Hickenlooper , chronicles the difficulties the crew went through making Apocalypse Now and features behind-the-scenes footage filmed by Eleanor. After filming Apocalypse Now , Coppola famously stated, "We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment and little by little, we went insane." The film
18492-584: Was released as The Bellboy and the Playgirls . That same year producer/director Roger Corman hired Coppola as an assistant. Corman first tasked Coppola with dubbing and re-editing the Soviet science fiction film Nebo zovyot , which Coppola turned into the sex-and-violence monster movie Battle Beyond the Sun , which was released in 1962. Impressed by Coppola's perseverance and dedication, Corman hired him as
18630-626: Was released on a $ 150,000 bond. Cage's first wife was actress Patricia Arquette , whom he married in April 1995 and divorced in 2001. His second marriage was to singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley , daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley . (Cage, an Elvis fan, used Elvis as the inspiration for his performance in Wild at Heart .) They married in Kamuela, Hawaii , on August 10, 2002, and filed for divorce 107 days later on November 25, 2002. The divorce
18768-447: Was so stylized. It was supposed to be like, sort of, you know, The Longest Day . And my script of Patton was—I was sort of interested in the reincarnation. And I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I wasn't fired, but I was fired, meaning that when the script was done, they said, "Okay, thank you very much," and they went and hired another writer and that script
18906-549: Was spotted backstage at a Ring of Honor wrestling show in New York City researching for the lead role for The Wrestler . However, Cage dropped out of production shortly afterward because he felt that he did not have enough time to prepare for the role and director Darren Aronofsky preferred Mickey Rourke for the lead role. Rourke would go on to receive an Academy Award nomination for his performance. In an interview with /Film, Aronofsky said of Cage's decision to leave
19044-446: Was told by the then-president of Paramount that "Marlon Brando will never appear in this motion picture." After pleading with the executives, Coppola was allowed to cast Brando only if he appeared in the film for much less money than his previous films, would perform a screen test, and put up a bond saying that he would not cause a delay in the production (as he had done on previous film sets). Coppola chose Brando over Ernest Borgnine on
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