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Eleanor Coppola, award-winning movie documentarian, artist, author and spouse of Francis Ford Coppola, has died. She was 87.
The information was confirmed by Francis Ford Coppola’s consultant Nesma Youssef, who mentioned in an e mail Eleanor Coppola was “surrounded by her loving household” at dwelling in Rutherford, California, on the time of her demise on Friday.
Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola had been married for 61 years, with Eleanor accompanying her husband on lots of his movie shoots all through his illustrious profession.
In 1992, she received a Primetime Emmy Award for her documentary “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse,” in regards to the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 battle epic “Apocalypse Now.” She made a number of different documentaries about her household’s movies and, in response to an obituary despatched by Youssef, was most not too long ago modifying a documentary in regards to the making of her daughter Sofia Coppola’s 2006 movie “Marie Antoinette.”
Eleanor Coppola was a function filmmaker in her personal proper, making her directorial debut on the age of 80 in 2016 with the Diane Lane-starring romance “Paris Can Wait.” She additionally wrote the film, which adopted the spouse of a profitable film producer as she makes her method throughout France with a driver.
Her second function, 2020’s “Love is Love is Love,” was chosen to display screen on the Tribeca Movie Competition and the Deauville American Movie Competition in France.
Along with her pursuits in filmmaking, Eleanor Coppola was an achieved artist and author.
Alongside along with her husband, she was on the helm of probably the most prolific and profitable filmmaking households in Hollywood. Her kids Roman Coppola (author and producer on a number of Wes Anderson movies) and Sofia Coppola (“The Virgin Suicides,” “Misplaced in Translation”) are each profitable filmmakers. Nicolas Cage, Talia Shire and Jason Schwartzman are a part of the prolonged Coppola household.
Shortly earlier than her demise, Eleanor Coppola accomplished her third e-book, a memoir. Within the manuscript, she wrote: “I admire how my surprising life has stretched and pulled me in so many extraordinary methods and brought me in a large number of instructions past my wildest imaginings.”