GUESTS
Francis Ford Coppola
Comments: Attended Opening Night in 1968. Festival guest in 1971. Subject of a Craft of Cinema tribute in 1972; 1975 recipient of the St. Francis of Assisi Award presented by Mayor Joseph Alioto; award was presented at the Opening Night Party at the Hyatt Regency. Attended screening of Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha in 1980. Chose Black God, White Devil for Indelible Images in 1997.
- 1968
- 1971
- 1972, The Rain People, Director
- 1975
- 1980
- 1981
- 1995, My Family, Producer
- 1997
- 2001
FACTOID #257
Funny Girl was selected by the San Francisco Film International to receive the Samuel Goldwyn Award as the best picture made in the U.S. in 1968. Star Barbara Streisand and producer Ray Stark attended the Festival to pick up the award.
