For which film did Coppola win his first Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay?
Patton
The Godfather
The Conversation
Apocalypse Now
Answer
Francis Ford Coppola won his first Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film Patton (1970), which he co-wrote with Edmund H. North. The film is a biographical war film about General George S. Patton during World War II.
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