Roman Coppola was an Academy Award® nominee, Writers Guild of America Award nominee, and BAFTA Award nominee for Best Original Screenplay category as co-writer, with director Wes Anderson, of Focus Features’ Moonrise Kingdom. The film received accolades including the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature, and their screenplay was honored by several critics’ groups. Mr. Coppola was a producer and co-writer on Mr. Anderson’s earlier film The Darjeeling Limited.
Mr. Coppola grew up in the world of filmmaking, and has developed his directing skills by working in multiple capacities—from sound recordist to cinematographer, from writer and producer to inventor.
He began his directing career with visual effects direction and second-unit direction on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which garnered a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Special Effects. His first feature film, C.Q., world- premiered at the Cannes International Film
Roman Coppola was an Academy Award® nominee, Writers Guild of America Award nominee, and BAFTA Award nominee for Best Original Screenplay category as co-writer, with director Wes Anderson, of Focus Features’ Moonrise Kingdom. The film received accolades including the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature, and their screenplay was honored by several critics’ groups. Mr. Coppola was a producer and co-writer on Mr. Anderson’s earlier film The Darjeeling Limited.
Mr. Coppola grew up in the world of filmmaking, and has developed his directing skills by working in multiple capacities—from sound recordist to cinematographer, from writer and producer to inventor.
He began his directing career with visual effects direction and second-unit direction on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which garnered a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Special Effects. His first feature film, C.Q., world- premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival and was well received critically. He has lent his talents as second-unit director to, among other films, Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette; and Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. His most recent feature as director and writer was A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, starring Charlie Sheen, Bill Murray, and Jason Schwartzman.
He is also the founder and owner of The Directors Bureau (TDB), an award-winning production company. It is through TDB that Mr. Coppola has directed highly acclaimed and influential music videos, for such bands as The Strokes and Green Day; and commercials, for such clients as Coca-Cola, Honda, and The New Yorker. His work has earned him various industry honors, including a Grammy Award® nomination and two MTV Video Music Awards. His stream-of-consciousness music video for Phoenix’s “Funky Squaredance” track was invited into the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
He is president of the pioneering San Francisco-based film company American Zoetrope. Among his producing credits are Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring and Somewhere (also for Focus Features), which won the top prize, the Golden Lion Award, at the 2010 Venice International Film Festival. He also produced On the Road, directed by Walter Salles, based on Jack Kerouac’s iconic novel. Mr. Coppola executive-produced Ms. Coppola’s A Very Murray Christmas, sharing with his fellow producers the show’s Emmy Award® nominations for Outstanding Television Movie.
Mr. Coppola is an executive producer of Amazon’s hit series Mozart in the Jungle, and shared with his colleagues from the program a Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Comedy or Musical. He has written and directed several episodes of the show.
