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- He made his film debut in 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High and went on to star in projects including National Treasure, Face/Off, Moonstruck and Raising Arizona. He earned an Academy Award nomination for his work in 2002’s Adaptation and won best actor for 1995’s Leaving Las Vegas.
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Carmine Valentino Coppola (Italian: [ˈkarmine ˈkɔppola]; June 11, 1910 – April 26, 1991) was an American composer, flautist, pianist, and songwriter who contributed original music to the films The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, and The Godfather Part III, all directed by his son Francis Ford Coppola.
Carmine Coppola's musical career took a new turn when his son Francis became a famous film director and hired his father to do the orchestrations for "Finian's Rainbow" (1967). Seven years later, in 1974, the score by Carmine Coppola and Nino Rota for " The Godfather, Part II " won the Academy Award.
The lineal descendants of Carmine Coppola and Italia Pennino have been nominated 24 times for an Academy Award, winning 8 times in categories including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score.
Dec 19, 2023 · The famous lineage began with Carmine Coppola, who was an orchestra conductor and Oscar-winning film composer. Carmine and his wife, Italia Pennino, shared three children: August Floyd...
He gained lasting fame with the Godfather series of films, but is also known for directing other films during his career (he won a total of five Academy Awards). The Coppola family came to the United States from southern Italy, more precisely from Bernalda in the Italian province of Basilicata.
Jan 29, 2011 · It wasn't. His break came later, when Coppola asked him to write music for The Godfather. Carmine Coppola won an Oscar for best original dramatic score for The Godfather II.
Italia Pennino, the wife of flutist and composer Carmine Coppola, was a "figlia d'arte" as we would say in Italian. Her father, Neapolitan Francesco Pennino (1880-1952), was a composer of Italian songs, an importer of Italian movies and a movie theater owner.
