Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has always had a tense relationship with awards. Reportedly, he once infamously threw them away as he entered the casting phase of his film Apocalypse Now. In a recent conversation with The Telegraph UK, Coppola said that he no longer remembers the specific location of the Oscar Statuettes that he has won so far in his career. The filmmaker has earned five Oscars: Best Original Screenplay for Patton in 1971, Best Adapted Screenplay for The Godfather, and Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Director for The Godfather Part II. Coppola told that the Statuettes are located "at a wine company" that he owned, although he does not remember their exact location.
Francis Ford Coppola also spoke about what matters more to him between awards and recognition from other filmmakers. The Apocalypse Now director said that it matters more to him when other, younger filmmakers, such as Alfonso Cuarón and Edward Berger, tell him that one of his films inspired them to foray into cinema as compared to awards.
In an old conversation with Variety, Cuarón cited Coppola as one of the filmmakers whose work he loved while he was in film school. On the other hand, in an Oscars newsletter, Berger mentioned Coppola's Apocalypse Now as one of the five films that inspired him.
