The AFI Board of Trustees announced that Francis Ford Coppola will be the 50th recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award, America's highest honor for a career in film. The award will be presented to Coppola at a Gala Tribute at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. 

Dreamer, maverick, pioneer and one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of our time, Francis Ford Coppola is a six-time Academy Award®-winning director, writer and producer of some of the most influential and culturally significant films of all time, including The Godfather trilogy, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, Bram Stoker's Dracula and his latest epic, Megalopolis.