Sofia Coppola

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Sofia Carmina Coppola ( KOH-pə-lə; born May 14, 1971) is an American filmmaker and former actress. She has won an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Golden Lion, and a Cannes Film Festival Award. She was also nominated for three BAFTA Awards, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award. Her parents are filmmakers Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola, and she made her acting debut as an infant in her father's acclaimed crime drama The Godfather (1972). Coppola later appeared in several music videos and had a supporting role in the fantasy comedy film Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). She then portrayed Mary Corleone, the daughter of Michael Corleone, in the sequel The Godfather Part III (1990). Coppola transitioned into filmmaking with her feature-length directorial debut in the coming-of-age drama The Virgin Suicides (1999). It was the first of her collaborations with actress Kirsten Dunst. Her films often deal with themes of loneliness, wealth, privilege, isolation, youth, femininity, and adolescence in America. Coppola received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the comedy-drama Lost in Translation (2003), and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, becoming the third woman to do so. She has since directed the historical drama Marie Antoinette (2006), the family drama Somewhere (2010), the satirical crime drama The Bling Ring (2013), the southern gothic thriller The Beguiled (2017), the comedy On the Rocks (2020), and the biographical drama Priscilla (2023). In 2015, Coppola released the Netflix Christmas musical comedy special A Very Murray Christmas, which earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.

Career

1. 1971
   Born
2. 1991
   Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress
3. 1991
   Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst New Star
4. 2004
   Won Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
5. 2013
   Won Dorothy Arzner Directors Award
6. Member of Coppola family
7. Member of Directors Guild of America
8. Member of Writers Guild of America West
9. Won Writers Guild of America Award
10. Notable work: Hi Octane
11. Notable work: The Virgin Suicides
12. Notable work: Lost in Translation
13. Notable work: The Bling Ring
14. Notable work: On the Rocks

Trivia

• •Place of birth: New York City
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: actor, film director, screenwriter, writer
• •Spouse: Spike Jonze