The American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola (Detroit, 1939) was awarded on Wednesday in Oviedo (northern Spain) with the Princess of Asturias Award of Arts.
Coppola, one of the renovators of American cinema in the decade of the 70s, directed films such as “Apocalypse Now” (1979), the film adaptation of the novel “Dracula” by Bram Stoker (1992) and the trilogy of “The Godfather” (1972, 1974 and 1990).
The jury says Coppola is an “exceptional narrator, which occupies a prominent place in the History of Cinema”, and developed his career with full entrepreneurial and creative independence in all facets.
His figure, according collects the jury minutes, it is essential to understand the transformation and industry contradictions and the art of cinema, contributing to the growth of the same decisively.
The application Coppola had been proposed by Fernando Rodriguez Lafuente, which is part of the Princess of Asturias Award jury of letters this year, and imposed the other as the jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, pianist Chinese Lang Lang and the Spanish architect Oriol Bohigas.
Born into an Italian-American family, Coppola grew up in New York in a family linked to music and cinema, with a father, Carmine Coppola, instrumentalist and composer, and had a childhood marked by polio that the left in bed for over a year.
Degree in Dramatic Art at Hofstra University (New York) and at the Film School of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), directed more than 30 films, some of them recognized as classics of film history.
Coppola was also screenwriter of 27 films and producer of other 74.
In addition to the Academy Awards, his films managed to Golden Globes (USA.), Cannes Palme d’Or ( France), Bafta awards (UK), César (France), David of Donatello (Italy) and Lion of the Venice Film Festival Gold.
they now adds the Princess of Arts Award, the first that is granted under the name Princess of Asturias, adapted well to the current heir to the Crown, Leonor de Borbón.
The awards Coppola opens 35th edition of the awards Princess of Asturias, endowed in their eight categories with the reproduction of a sculpture designed by Joan Miró, 50 000 euros and a diploma.
Frank Gehry, Michael Haneke, Rafael Moneo, Riccardo Muti, Norman Foster, Woody Allen, Paco de Lucía, Vittorio Gassmann, Fernando Fernan Gomez, Bob Dylan, Miquel Barceló, Pedro Almodovar, Oscar Niemeyer, Eduardo Chillida and Luis García Berlanga, are awarded in the list of the Arts.
The Award of Arts is destined to grace people or institutions in the field of cinematography, theater, dance, music, photography, painting, sculpture, architecture and other art forms have made a ‘significant contribution to the cultural heritage of humanity. ”
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