Francis Ford Coppola was presented with the 50th AFI Life Achievement Award at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on April 26, 2025.

On a night saluting the independence and go-for-broke cinematic life of Francis Ford Coppola, Al Pacino perhaps summed up why the legendary filmmaker has opted out of accepting many honors over the ...

Former AFI Life Achievement Award recipients like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Morgan Freeman celebrated risk-taking director Francis Ford Coppola.

Coppola’s The Godfather, The Godfather Part II and Apocalypse Now are ranked among history’s greatest films in AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies list. A six-time Academy Award winner, his other ...

George Lucas, recipient of the 33rd AFI Life Achievement Award, said reporters kept asking him what he learned from Francis. "Well, he used to call me an 80-year-old kid when I as like ...

This is the 10th year the Emmy-winning AFI Life Achievement Award special will air on TNT. The AFI Life Achievement Award, established by the AFI Board of Trustees in 1973, is presented to a ...

The annual AFI Life Achievement Award presentation is always ... Now they’re going to have an award show for the best award ...

Now they’re going to have an award show for the best award show ... who starred in the film. Last year’s AFI honoree was Nicole Kidman. Other recent recipients include John Williams ...

are the same things that years later, they give you lifetime achievement awards for.” Well Coppola, finally on the 50th anniversary of the AFI Life Achievement Award dinners, got the most ...