Coolidge Award

The Coolidge Award, launched in 2004, recognizes a film artist whose work advances the spirit of original and challenging cinema. 

We are thrilled to announce that this year's honoree is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of our time, Francis Ford Coppola.

About FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

Francis Ford Coppola is a six-time Academy Award®-winning (including the Board of Governors’ Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award) director, writer, and producer of such films as Patton, The Godfather Trilogy, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and his latest epic, Megalopolis.

As the co-founder of American Zoetrope with George Lucas, Coppola initiated and nourished the careers of talents such as Carroll Ballard, John Milius, Sofia Coppola, and actors Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, James Caan, Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfus, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, Matt Dillon, and Diane Lane. As a writer, director, producer, and technological pioneer, he created a body of work that has helped shape contemporary American cinema.

Coppola’s latest film Megalopolis is a Roman epic set in modern times with an all-star cast including Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, and Aubrey Plaza. In 2024, the film made its world premiere to a 10-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, and was released theatrically and in IMAX globally.