LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – “Godfather” director Francis Ford Coppola is to get a lifetime achievement Oscar to add to his stack of five Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said yesterday.
Coppola, 71, who also wrote and directed Vietnam War movie “Apocalypse Now” and the 1974 thriller “The Conversation”, will receive the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award.
It will be handed out at a dinner in November in Los Angeles, ahead of the main Oscar ceremony in February 2011.
The lifetime achievement nod is given to “a creative producer whose body of work reflects a consistently high quality of motion picture production.”
Coppola won most of his five Oscars for “The Godfather” series of movies about Italian American Corleone crime family in the 1940s and 1950s.