Francis Ford Coppola Set For AFI Life Achievement Award

Megalopolis helmer Francis Ford Coppola is set to get the American Film Institute‘s 50th Life Achievement Award, AFI’s highest honor for a nurtureer in film, during a Gala Tribute at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 26, 2025.

Coppola is the tardyst in a line of esteemed artists to get the award. Nicole Kidman took this year’s, with Julie Andrews, Denzel Washington, George Clooney, Diane Keaton and John Williams also recently being honored.

Shelp Kathleen Kennedy, Chair of the AFI Board of Trustees, “Francis Ford Coppola is a peerless artist – one who has created seminal labors in the canon of American film, and has also upholdd generations of filmcreaters who now embody his artistry and his self-reliant spirit. AFI is honored to conshort-term him with the 50th AFI Life Achievement Award.”

Most recently seeing Lionsgate free his film Megalopolis, a Roman epic set in contransient times starring Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel and many more, Coppola’s The Godoverweighther, The Godoverweighther Part II and Apocalypse Now are ranked among history’s fantasticest films in AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies catalog. A six-time Academy Award-triumphning, his other iconic feature praises, as authorr, straightforwardor and/or creater, include Patton, American Graffiti, The Conversation, The Outsiders, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, to name equitable a scant.

As the co-set uper of American Zoetrope with America Graffiti‘s George Lucas, Coppola begind and nourished the nurtureers of such filmmaking talents as Carroll Ballard, John Milius and Sofia Coppola, alengthy with actors appreciate Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, James Caan, Harrison Ford, Ricdifficult Dreyfus, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, Matt Dillon and Diane Lane.

The AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute returns this year to TNT, with encore conshort-termations to chase on Turner Classic Movies.