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Francis Ford Coppola honoured to win Worst Director for staying true to his arts


"The Godfather" director embraces Razzies
3 Mar - He might have been voted Worst Director by the Golden Raspberry Awards (aka The Razzies), but Francis Ford Coppola is not one to let a joke award shame him for his vision.

On 1 March, following the "winners" announcement, the filmmaker took to Instagram to express his thoughts about it, writing, "I am thrilled to accept the Razzie award in so many important categories for [Megalopolis], and for the distinctive honour of being nominated as the worst director, worst screenplay, and worst picture at a time when so few have the courage to go against the prevailing trends of contemporary moviemaking!"

"In this wreck of a world today, where ART is given scores as if it were professional wrestling, I chose to NOT follow the gutless rules laid down by an industry so terrified of risk that despite the enormous pool of young talent at its disposal, may not create pictures that will be relevant and alive 50 years from now," he said.
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Coppola's "Megalopolis" was panned by critics following its release
Coppola, who has won multiple accolades for his works like "The Godfather", "Apocalypse Now" and "Bram Stoker's Dracula", stated that he is honoured to stand alongside a great and courageous filmmaker like Jacques Tati whom he said "impoverished himself completely to make one of cinema's most beloved failures, PLAYTIME!"

"My sincere thanks to all my brilliant colleagues who joined me to make our work of art, MEGALOPOLIS, and let us remind ourselves us that box-office is only about money, and like war, stupidity and politics has no true place in our future," he added.

Many other filmmakers took to the comments to support him, including Spike Lee, Neil Marshall, and Ava Duvernay, with the former writing, "Father Cinema".
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Spike Lee calls the filmmaker "father cinema"



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