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 co-writer 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 Francisco-based 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 in-camera visual effects and second unit direction for Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which garnered a BAFTA Award nomination for Visual Effects. He has continued to do second unit direction throughout his career, including his father's Jack, The Rainmaker, Youth Without Youth, and Tetro; collaborator Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited; and his sister Sofia Coppola's 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 "12:51" 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 Phoenix's "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 Schwartzman's musical side project, Coconut Records. His first feature film, CQ, premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and was well-received 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. Coppola's 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 break-up. 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.

Filmography

• 2026Breeder — Executive Producer
• 2026Making Marie Antoinette — Self, Executive Producer
• 2026Marc by Sofia — Director of Photography, Executive Producer
• 2025Fairyland — Executive Producer
• 2025The Phoenician Scheme — Story, Executive Producer
• 2024A Century in Sound — Executive Producer
• 2024Megalopolis — Second Unit Director
• 2024The Last Showgirl — Thanks
• 2024The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More — Director of Photography
• 2023Asteroid City — Executive Producer, Story
• 2023Priscilla — Second Unit Director, Executive Producer
• 2023The Swan — Director of Photography
• 2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun — Story, Executive Producer
• 2020Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special — Director, Executive Producer
• 2020On the Rocks — Executive Producer
• 2018Isle of Dogs — Igor (voice), Story
• 2017The Beguiled — Executive Producer
• 2016Paris Can Wait — Thanks
• 2015A Very Murray Christmas — Assistant Director, Executive Producer
• Mozart in the Jungle — Executive Producer, Creator
• 2013A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III — Writer, Producer, Director
• 2013Castello Cavalcanti — Producer
• 2013Here Comes the Night Time — Director
• 2013The Bling Ring — Producer
• 2012Cousin Ben Troop Screening — Writer, Other
• 2012Die Again, Undead One — Roman Coppola, Director, Writer
• 2012Moonrise Kingdom — Writer
• 2012On the Road — Producer
• 2011Fight for Your Right Revisited — Café Patron
• 2011From a Mess To The Masses — Additional Photography
• 2010Somewhere — Producer
• 2009Fantastic Mr. Fox — Squirrel Contractor (voice)
• 2009Tetro — Second Unit Director
• 2007The Darjeeling Limited — Second Unit Director, Writer, Producer
• 2007Youth Without Youth — Second Unit Director
• 2006Adicolor Red — Director
• 2006Marie Antoinette — Second Unit Director
• 2004The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou — Second Unit Director
• 2003Lost in Translation — Thanks, Other
• 2003The Work of Director Spike Jonze — Director
• 2002The Strokes: MTV $2 Bill Concert — Director
• 2001CQ — Director, Writer
• 2001Green Day: International Supervideos! — Director
• 2000The Virgin Suicides — Second Unit Director
• 1999D.A.F.T. — Director
• 1999Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace — Senate Guard (uncredited)
• 1999Torrance Rises — Self, Cinematography
• 1998Free Tibet — Cinematography
• 1998Lick the Star — Second Unit Director of Photography
• 1997The Rainmaker — Second Unit Director
• 1996Bed, Bath and Beyond — Cinematography
• 1996Jack — Second Unit Director
• 1992Bram Stoker's Dracula — Second Unit Director, Visual Effects
• 1991The Linguini Incident — Thanks
• 1990Clownhouse — Executive In Charge Of Production
• 1990The Spirit of '76 — Story, Executive Producer
• 1983Rumble Fish — Associate Producer
• 1983The Black Stallion Returns — Sound Recordist, Production Assistant
• 1979Apocalypse Now — Francis de Marais
• 1974The Godfather Part II — Sonny Corleone as a Boy (uncredited)
• 1972The Godfather — Boy on Street Who Attended Funeral (uncredited)
• 1966You're a Big Boy Now — Baby Boy in Carriage (uncredited)
• Glimpses of the Moon — Second Unit Director
• Untitled Wes Anderson Film — Writer, Executive Producer

Appearances as themselves (14)

• 2025Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us — Self
• 2025Megadoc — Self
• 2025The Making of Hearts of Darkness — Self
• 2024Lumière, Le Cinéma! — Self
• 2016The Family Whistle — Self
• 2007Coda: Thirty Years Later — Self
• 2007In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' — Self
• 2007Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula' — Self
• 2005Danger: Diabolik - From Fumetti to Film — Self
• 2004Lost on Location: Behind the Scenes of 'Lost in Translation' — Self
• 2004Mario Bava: Operazione paura — Self
• 2002On the Set of CQ — Self
• 2000The Making of The Virgin Suicides — Self
• 1991Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse — Self