Eleanor Coppola, artist and matriarch of filmmaking dynasty, dead at 87

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Eleanor Coppola, award-winning movie documentarian, artist, author and spouse of Francis Ford Coppola, has died. She was 87.

The information was confirmed by Francis Ford Coppola’s consultant Nesma Youssef, who mentioned in an electronic mail Eleanor Coppola was “surrounded by her loving household” at house in Rutherford, California, on the time of her dying on Friday.

Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola had been married for 61 years, with Eleanor accompanying her husband on lots of his movie shoots all through his illustrious profession.

In 1992, she received a Primetime Emmy Award for her documentary “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse,” concerning the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 warfare epic “Apocalypse Now.” She made a number of different documentaries about her household’s movies and, in accordance with an obituary despatched by Youssef, was most just lately enhancing a documentary concerning the making of her daughter Sofia Coppola’s 2006 movie “Marie Antoinette.”

Eleanor Coppola was a characteristic filmmaker in her personal proper, making her directorial debut on the age of 80 in 2016 with the Diane Lane-starring romance “Paris Can Wait.” She additionally wrote the film, which adopted the spouse of a profitable film producer as she makes her means throughout France with a driver.

Her second characteristic, 2020’s “Love is Love is Love,” was chosen to display screen on the Tribeca Movie Pageant and the Deauville American Movie Pageant in France.

Along with her pursuits in filmmaking, Eleanor Coppola was an achieved artist and author.

Alongside together with her husband, she was on the helm of one of the crucial prolific and profitable filmmaking households in Hollywood. Her kids Roman Coppola (author and producer on a number of Wes Anderson movies) and Sofia Coppola (“The Virgin Suicides,” “Misplaced in Translation”) are each profitable filmmakers. Nicolas Cage, Talia Shire and Jason Schwartzman are a part of the prolonged Coppola household.

Shortly earlier than her dying, Eleanor Coppola accomplished her third guide, a memoir. Within the manuscript, she wrote: “I admire how my sudden life has stretched and pulled me in so many extraordinary methods and brought me in a mess of instructions past my wildest imaginings.”