When you do find an architect on screen, the job is typically ancillary to the plot (in Death Wish, for example, Charles Bronson is an architect, not that it matters) or there to signal a character’s bourgeois desirability, the architect being artistically inclined and a respected professional (as played by Wesley Snipes in Jungle Feve r).

"So few have the courage to go against the prevailing trends of contemporary moviemaking," the auteur, who then went on to win Worst Director, said.

The director penned a blistering statement decrying the industry's focus on box office and playing it safe: "I chose to NOT follow the gutless rules laid down by an industry terrified of risk..."

Now that the White House has decreed that all new government structures be made in a classical style, let’s cue up the original film of buildings and hubris — King Vidor’s “The Fountainhead” (1949), based on the 1943 novel by Ayn Rand.

The court ruled against the outlet, which argued that the director's lawsuit should be dismissed because it's intended to chill free speech.

Francis Ford Coppola spoke out on Instagram after he won the award for worst director at the 2024 Razzie Awards for his film, Megalopolis.

"Joker: Folie à Deux," "Madame Web" and Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” are among the top films dishonored by the Golden Raspberry Foundation.

Bill Murray delivered an honest remembrance of his “The Royal Tenenbaums” co-star Gene Hackman on Thursday, calling him a “brilliant” actor but saying he was a “tough nut” who was “really rough” on director Wes Anderson. The Oscar-winning actor, known for “The French Connection” and “Unforgiven,” was found dead in his Santa Fe home on …

Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis will not be receiving any awards at the Oscars this weekend, but Coppola is taking his bows anyway, in an Instagram post graciously accepting the movie’s nominations and awards from the 2025 Razzie Awards.

Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola accepted the facetious Razzie Award for worst director for his sprawling sci-fi drama “Megalopolis,” which was filmed in metro Atlanta and cost him $120 million of his own money since nobody else was willing to fund it.

Megalopolis scored two Razzies, one for Worst Supporting Actor (Jon Voight, which he also earned for his 2024 roles in Reagan, Shadow Land, and Strangers) as well as Worst Director for Francis Ford Coppola, who graciously accepted his $4.97 Razzie trophy for his polarizing, decades-in-the-making epic in a statement posted on Instagram.

“I am thrilled to accept the Razzie award in so many important categories for ‘Megalopolis,’ and for the distinctive honor of being nominated as the worst director, worst ...