The Coppola Family Tree

oscar | 2013
The Coppola
Family Tree
◄ Carmine was an
acclaimed flautist, and
Italia is said to have been
a spectacular cook.
Carmine
Coppola
1910-91
Composer
The NYC native did
the Godfather films,
Apocalypse Now
and The Black
Stallion. His brother,
Anton, retired in April
as Opera Tampa’s
conductor at age 95.
➺ The core family has eight Oscars and 24 nominations, while its extended
members encompass even more awards and an extraordinary influence in the arts
August Coppola
Joy Vogelsang
1935Dancer, Choreographer
She and August divorced in
1976. Her youngest son, Nicolas,
moved from L.A. to live with
uncle Francis and aunt Eleanor in
Napa when he was in 12th grade.
gust
Nic and dad Auuck
at the Moonstr .
premiere in 1987
Christina
Fulton
Nicolas Cage
1964Actor
The veteran of more than 70 films
and an Oscar winner for Leaving
Las Vegas, Francis’ nephew
changed his name because,
as he once said, “Nicolas Coppola
was a frightened boy who
had to reinvent himself in order
to fulfill his dreams.”
1967Actress, Singer
Has sparred with Nic
over back taxes and
the Hollywood Hills
home in which
she raised their child.
1934-2009
Literature Professor
As an exec at American Zoetrope,
he helped his brother’s company
with the acclaimed restoration
and rerelease of the 1927 silent
film Napoleon. A theater on the
campus of employer San Francisco
State is named in his honor.
Elizabeth
Seton
Marc
Coppola
1962Actress
Has a role in the
upcoming Netflix
series Orange Is
the New Black
from Jenji Kohan.
1957Actor, Radio DJ
Plays a dad in cousin
Sofia’s upcoming The
Bling Ring and has
appeared in Nic’s
Leaving Las Vegas,
uncle Francis’ Jack and
aunt Talia’s One Night
Stand. “The Cope” DJs
for classic-rock Clear
Channel stations.
▲ Weston and mom
Christina in 2008.
1990Actor, musician
He appeared with dad
in Lord of War and
wrote and performed
the title song for Nic’s
Drive Angry.
Nikki Williams
Adrienne
Stout-Coppola
1961Actress,
Screenwriter
Wrote her husband’s The
Creature of the Sunny
Side Up Trailer Park,
starring Lynda Carter.
2003Has Johnson
& Johnson
commercials
on her résumé.
1995Actor
Attends a pool
party in aunt
Sofia’s Bling Ring.
1939Director, Writer,
producer
“I made a very wise
move when I was a
young guy,” he said as
he received the Thalberg
in 2010. “I told my wife,
‘If I ever go away [on a
film] for more than two
weeks, I want to take
the kids out of school
… I’m taking them with
me,’ and we always
did. We had the family
together for all of
those adventures.”
Christopher
Coppola
1962Director, Producer, Writer
Wrote and directed Palmer’s
Pick-Up, which has aunt Talia in
drag; launched PAH Fest, a newmedia film festival, in 2006.
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Coppola
2009-
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► Sofia
and mom
Eleanor in
2004.
Actress
Nic’s wife from 1995 to 2001, she plays Charlie
Sheen’s sister in former cousin-in-law Roman’s new
film A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III.
Lisa Marie Presley 1968-
Singer-Songwriter
The former wife of musician Danny Keough and Michael
Jackson married Nic, a big Elvis fan, in August 2002;
they filed for divorce after 107 days of marriage.
Kal-el CAGE
2005Kal-el is the Krypton
birth name given
to Superman in the
comics; his dad was to
play the Man of Steel in
a Tim Burton film.
Jennifer
Furches
1980Singer
Songwriter
Her musician
name is Spring
Summer; Roman
directs her
music videos.
Amanda
Furches
1981Actress,
Dancer
Appeared in 2011’s
The Woods,
said to be the first
film to premiere
at Sundance
using Kickstarter
for financing.
2011Is precocious in Arquette’s
arms in Charles Swan III.
1951Actress
Played squeakyvoiced Frenchy in
Grease; married to
Shire since 1984.
Danny Shire
1992His illness inspired
Conn to become a
national celebrity
spokesperson for
Autism Speaks.
David Shire 1937Composer, Songwriter
Shared original song Oscar for
“It Goes Like It Goes” (from
Norma Rae); also worked on
Saturday Night Fever. Married
to Talia from 1970 to 1978 and
scored her pic One Night Stand
years after they divorced.
Matthew
Shire
1975Screenwriter
Wrote for the
TBS animated
series Neighbors
From Hell.
Talia Shire 1946-
Actress, Director
Sylvester Stallone killed off
her character Adrian during
the 16 years between Rocky
V and Rocky Balboa: “I told
her, ‘Talia, you’re the heart
and soul of this movie, but
you’re just here in spirit.’ ”
Jason
Schwartzman
1980Actor, Musician
After Kingdom, he’s
back with cousin Roman
in Charles Swan III and
in the upcoming Saving
Mr. Banks, shot by
half-brother John.
KEY
Married / couple
Roman
Coppola
Thomas
Mars
1977Musician
The Frenchman,
who fronts the
alt-rock band
Phoenix, married
Sofia in 2011.
Children
Siblings
Oscar Winner
Jack Schwartzman
1932-94
Attorney, Producer
Helped clients like William
Friedkin work outside the studio
system; produced Never Say
Never Again, the final Sean
Connery Bond film. Married to
Talia from 1980 until his death.
Robert
Schwartzman
John
Schwartzman
1982Musician, Actor
Appeared in The
Princess Diaries and
did songs for Bad
Teacher and Easy A. The
ex-frontman of Rooney,
he’s now a solo act.
1971Director, Screenwriter,
Producer
The Oscar-winning Lost in
Translation writer-director has
The Bling Ring, produced by
Roman, coming out this year. She
has been in front of the camera
in her dad’s films The Godfather,
Rumble Fish and Peggy Sue
Got Married and with cousin
Jason in brother Roman’s CQ.
Jacqui
De La
Fontaine
1967Costume
Designer,
Stylist
Was 19 and two
months pregnant
when Gian-Carlo
was killed.
2006-
Cosima
Croquet
2010-
Spike Jonze 1969Director, producer, screenwriter
Earned an Oscar nom for helming
Being John Malkovich and directed
Adaptation, starring then-cousin-in-law
Nic (the actor’s second nom). Married to
Sofia from 1999 to 2003.
1965Getty Oil heir
He was dating
Lauren Hutton
when he met
de la Fontaine,
whom he
married in 2000.
Their nasty
divorce was
finalized in 2010.
august and nicolas: barry king/sygma/corbis. weston and Christina: paul redmond/getty images. alice kim: malcolm taylor/getty images. roman and wes anderson: michael buckner/getty images. thomas mars: tim mosenfelder/getty images. spike jonze: neilson barnard/getty images. sofia and eleanor:
evan agostini/getty images. carmine and italia: jim smeal/getty images. francis and roman: courtesy of subject. jason and brady: steve jennings/getty images. roman, francis and gian-carlo: ron galella/getty images. gia: Charley gallay/getty images. robert and talia: kevin winter/getty images.
oscar nominee
Judith
Schwartzman
1935Loved to entertain
at the family home in
Brentwood.
Stephanie
Kuhlmann
1960Cinematographer
Beat Francis and George
Lucas at a late-night
game of Risk, so they
had to write him letters
of recommendation to
USC’s film school.
1965Art Dept. Coord.
Has worked for fourtime Oscar nominee
Bo Welch on such
films as Edward
Scissorhands, Men in
Black and The Birdcage.
Ann
Schwartzman
Darin
Kuhlmann
▼ Brady and Jason were married in 2009.
Brady
Cunningham
1980Fashion Designer
Art and design director
of the boutique
TenOverSix, with a store
on Melrose Avenue.
Francis
Ford
Coppola
Marlowe
Schwartzman
▲ Robert and mom Talia
at Roman’s The Darjeeling
Limited premiere in 2007.
1965Production Designer
When John introduced
Ann to his sister, the
women realized they
knew each other from
their work on Ed Wood.
1964Producer,
Postproduction
Exec
Has a Western in
development titled
Barren Land.
Jack
Schwartzman
Harrison
Kuhlmann
Lucy
Schwartzman
Grace
Kuhlmann
1994-
2010-
1996-
1999-
Gian-Carlo Coppola
1963-86
Actor
Died in a speedboat accident
on Chesapeake Bay while Francis
was filming Gardens of Stone
nearby. Actor Griffin O’Neal
(Ryan’s son), who was driving the
boat, was replaced in the movie.
▼ Gian-Carlo
(left), with Francis
and Roman, in
January 1986,
four months
before his death.
3 More Fabled Oscar Families
These clans deserve to take a bow at Academy Awards time, too
Walter, John and Anjelica
Peter
Getty
Romy
Croquet
▲ Roman with
frequent collaborator
Anderson (he’s like
family!) at Cannes.
Sofia Coppola
Direct
descendant
of Carmine
and ITalia
coppola
Divorced / separated
1998-
1965Screenwriter, Producer,
Director
He served as second-unit
director on sister Sofia’s Lost
in Translation and The Virgin
Suicides and dad’s Bram
Stoker’s Dracula; borrowed
the Zeiss super-speed lenses
Francis used on Rumble Fish
for Charles Swan III. He
and Sheen met when Sheen’s
dad, Martin, starred in
Francis’ Apocalypse Now.
Pascale Coppola
Didi
Conn
5 Oscar wins
14 nominations
plus the Thalberg
Award
1955Executive Producer
Works for DDB Worldwide overseeing
commercials in NYC.
Patricia Arquette 1968-
1984Married Nic in 2004 after they
met when she served his table
at a sushi restaurant in L.A.
1990Actress
Trained in London, she just
booked a role in the film
The Wake-Up Call.
Cayley
Coppola
Francis
Ford Coppola
1936Writer, Documentarian
An Emmy-winning co-director
of Hearts of Darkness: A
Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, she
met Francis when he was directing
Roger Corman’s Dementia 13 and
she was an assistant to the art
director. They married in 1963.
Walter Brindak
1988Singer
The South Africa native came
out with her first single in
2012, titled “Kill, F—, Marry.”
Alice Kim Cage
Natasha
Coppola-Shalom
1912-2004
Lyricist, Actress
Born in Brooklyn,
she body-doubled as
Mama Corleone in a
casket in Godfather:
Part II. Her image
graces Francis’ line
of Mammarella
sauces and pasta.
Eleanor Coppola
Bailey
Coppola
WESTON
CAGE
Italia
Coppola
HOW m a n y fol k s ca n say t h at t h ei r gr a n dfat h er , fat h er ,
sister, cousin and uncle have won Oscars and their aunt and cousin have
been nominated? Roman Coppola can, and now he’s nominated for his
own Academy Award for best original screenplay (with Wes Anderson)
for Moonrise Kingdom. This latest in a long line of Coppola kudos (they
and the Hustons are the only families with Oscars over three generations) prompted THR to follow a lineage that has its roots in Italy,
runs through New York, Napa and Hollywood and has wound its way
through film, fashion, music, radio and academia. “With our family,
I always say it’s not six degrees of separation, it’s like three,” says cinematographer John Schwartzman, an Oscar nominee for Seabiscuit. “We
could form a studio. We certainly have enough people.” — MIKE BARNES
The Hustons
Gia Coppola 1987Writer, Director, Stylist
Has worked with Zac Posen and Opening
Ceremony. Wrote and directed Palo Alto
Stories, an indie film out this year,
and helms music videos for cousin Robert.
John won screenplay and directing Oscars for The Treasure of the
Sierra Madre (1948) as dad Walter
earned the supporting actor prize.
John worked the family mojo again
by guiding daughter Anjelica
to an Oscar in Prizzi’s Honor (1985).
W. Huston: Hulton Archive/Getty Images. J. Huston: ©Bettman/Corbis. A. Huston: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images. Barrymores: Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty
Images. A. Newman: 20th Century Fox/Courtesy Everett Collection. R. Newman: Scott Kirkland/PictureGroup/AP Images. T. Newman: AP Photo/Matt Sayles.
Lionel, Ethel and John
Alfred, Randy and Thomas
The Barrymores
Stage legend Ethel got her Oscar
for None But the Lonely Heart
(1944) among four noms from 1944
to 1949. Brother John (Drew’s
grandfather) starred in the silents,
and other brother Lionel was mean
Mr. Potter in It’s a Wonderful Life.
The Newmans
They’re the Coppolas of film music.
Thomas (Skyfall) is up for his first
Oscar on his 11th career nom. His
father, Alfred, earned nine trophies
and 45 noms (and composed the
Fox logo theme), and cousin Randy
has two Oscars and 20 noms.
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