Coppola family

The Coppola family ( KOH-pə-lə, Italian: [ˈkɔppola]) is an Italian-American family of artists in the entertainment industry of the United States, originated from Bernalda in the region of Basilicata. Agostino "August" Coppola (1882–1946) and Maria Zasa (1887–1974) immigrated to the United States circa 1905 and married on January 25, 1908. They had seven children—Archimedes, Carmine, Pancrazzo, Mario, Anton, Edward and Clarence; Anton and Carmine were the only second generation members who actively worked on a music career in the 20th century. Third and fourth generation members, including Francis Ford Coppola, Talia Shire, Sofia Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Nicolas Cage, are descended from Carmine Coppola. Francis Ford, one of the children of Carmine, co-founded a film production company American Zoetrope with fellow filmmaker George Lucas and cemented his career for directing the gangster film The Godfather (1972), regarded by many critics as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made as well as a landmark of the gangster genre. Francis Ford is a prominent figure of the New Hollywood era and became the dominant force of the Hollywood film industry in the 1970s and 1980s, until his significant decline between box-office disappointment and film production delays as an independent filmmaker prior in the 21st century, leaving his descendants independently continued their successful legacy. Throughout their careers in five decades, Carmine and his descendants earned multiple Academy Awards wins and nominations, contributing to the extended Coppola members with nine being the most members of the family.