US filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola (Detroit, 1939) was awarded today in Oviedo (northern Spain) with the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, who chose 31 award nominations from 19 countries.
Coppola, considered one of the innovators of American cinema in the decade of the seventies, has directed movies such as “Apocalypse Now” (1979), the film adaptation of the novel “Dracula” by Bram Stoker (1992) or trilogy “The Godfather” (1972, 1974 and 1990).
The jury says Coppola is an “exceptional narrator, who figures prominently in the history of cinema”, who has developed his career with full entrepreneurial and creative independence in all facets.
Her figure, as recorded by the jury, it is essential to understand the transformation and contradictions of industry and art of cinema, “whose growth has contributed decisively.
Coppola’s candidacy had been proposed by Fernando Rodriguez Lafuente, part of the jury of the Princess of Asturias Prize for Literature this year, and beat others such as jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, the Chinese pianist Lang Lang or Spanish architect Oriol Bohigas.
Born into an Italian-American family, Coppola grew up in New York in a home linked to music and film, with a father, Carmine Coppola, instrumentalist and composer, and had a childhood marked by polio, it fell to the bed for more than a year, but also play with puppets and manipulation of family films in Super8.
Trained in drama at Hofstra University (New York) and the School of Cinema of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), he has directed more than thirty films, some of them recognized as classics of film history .
Coppola has also been 27 films writer and producer of another 74.
The films of Francis Ford Coppola have been nominated and distinguished on numerous occasions, with the most prestigious international awards in the film industry.
In addition to the Academy Awards, his films have earned Golden Globe (USA), the Palme d’Or at Cannes (France), BAFTA (UK), Cesar (France), David of Donatello (Italy) or the Golden Lion at Venice.
They were now added the Princess Award for the Arts, the first to be granted under the name Princess of Asturias, and adapted to the current heir to the throne, Leonor of Spain.
The failure of this award opens the thirty-fifth edition of the Princess of Asturias prizes endowed in eight categories with the reproduction of a sculpture designed by Joan Miró, 50 billion euros ($ 55,900), a diploma and a badge.
Frank Gehry, Michael Haneke, Rafael Moneo, Riccardo Muti, Norman Foster, Woody Allen, Paco de Lucia, Vittorio Gassmann, Fernando Fernan Gomez, Bob Dylan, Miquel Barcelo, Pedro Almodovar, Oscar Niemeyer, Eduardo Chillida and Luis Garcia Berlanga, are among the list of winners of the Arts.
The Arts Prize is intended to reward individuals or institutions in the field of cinema, theater, dance, music, photography, painting, sculpture, architecture and other art forms have made a “significant contribution the cultural heritage of humanity “.
Jram
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