As previously announced, Francis Ford Coppola is finally receiving the coveted AFI Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. Now, it’s revealed that fellow directors George Lucas, who co-founded American Zoetrope with Coppola, and Steven Spielberg will present the award to the auteur during the 50th AFI Life Achievement ceremony.

“There is only one Francis Ford Coppola,” Bob Gazzale, AFI President and CEO, said. “And it is AFI’s honor to gather the art and entertainment communities, along with his family, friends and colleagues to celebrate cinema — all of it — and the very best of it.”

Coppola has famously pushed the boundaries of cinema, most recently with his self-funded epic “Megalopolis.” When he won the Worst Director title from the Razzie Awards, Coppola brilliantly wrote on Instagram that he chooses to “not follow the gutless rules laid down by an industry so terrified of risk that despite the...