Eternals star Kumail Nanjiani recently admitted that Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino were well within their rights to trash the Marvel Cinematic Universe due to their accomplished bodies of work, and reputations for regularly churning out cinematic classics. By that metric, then, Francis Ford Coppola surely exists on the same pedestal.
After all, the veteran filmmaker is responsible for such all-timers as The Godfather trilogy, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, Dracula, and countless others in a career that stretches back over half a century. He’s also won five Academy Awards from 14 nominations, so it’s not as if his credentials can be called into question.