Sofia Carmina Coppola
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Sofia Coppola won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation in 2004, becoming the first American woman nominated for Best Director. She is the daughter of Francis Ford Coppola and has directed films like Marie Antoinette 2006 and Somewhere 2010. She also acted in The Godfather Part III 1990 and has been married to Thomas Mars since 2011.
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On May 14, 1971, Sofia Carmina Coppola was born in New York City to filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and documentarian Eleanor Coppola. Growing up, she traveled with her father on location shoots, including the Philippines for Apocalypse Now 1979 and Oklahoma for The Outsiders 1983. She attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School and later studied photography at Mills College and painting at California Institute of the Arts.
Coppola’s first film role was as a baby in her father’s The Godfather 1972. She appeared uncredited in The Godfather Part II and took the lead role of Mary Corleone in The Godfather Part III 1990 after replacing Winona Ryder. Her directorial debut was The Virgin Suicides 1999, but her breakout came with Lost in Translation 2003, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. She followed with Marie Antoinette 2006, Somewhere 2010, and The Beguiled 2017.
Coppola was married to director Spike Jonze from 1999 to 2003. She married French musician Thomas Mars on August 27, 2011. They have two daughters: Romy born 2006 and Cosima born 2010. She lives in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village and is cousin to actors Nicolas Cage and Jason Schwartzman.
Sofia Coppola made history at age 32 as the first American woman nominated for the Best Director Oscar. Her win for screenwriting made the Coppola family the second family with three generations of Oscar winners. She directed Bill Murray to an Oscar nomination for Lost in Translation and inspired a Louis Vuitton collection. She remains celebrated for her distinctive visual style and intimate storytelling.
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On Taking Her Stage Name, Domino, at the Age of 11: I Thought It Was Glamorous.
That’s the Way I Work: I Try to Imagine What I Would Like to See.
I Was Going to Art School and Trying Different Things. I Was Interested in a Lot Of, Mostly Visual Arts. I Didn’t Know What I Wanted to Do and Then I Made a Short Film and Felt Like It Was a Combination of All These Interests of Mine with Design and Photography and Music. but It Was Really When I Read the Book the Virgin Suicides That Made Me Wanna Make a Movie.
I’m Always a Sucker for a Love Story.
We Were Always Around My Dad, so He Wasn’t Absentee at All. I Don’t Think It Was Normal, but It Was Exciting. You Always Had Lots of Creative People Around, and My Parents Took Us Everywhere. I Got Exposed to so Many Different Cultures and People. I Mean, I Got to Go to Akira Kurosawa’s House as a Child.
There’s so Many More Female Directors Than When I Started. That’s Encouraging. Maybe It’s Because It’s Such an All-encompassing Job, and If You Have a Family, It’s Harder to Do. but There Are Female Surgeons. and There’s Plenty of Women Working in the Film Business.
My Mom Is Very Calm and Quiet, so I Think I Got That from Her. Because My Dad Is Passionate and Loud. …It Was Always Interesting and I Really Enjoyed That My Parents Always Included Us in Their Lives. so We Got to Be Around All These Interesting People and Go on Adventures. I Mean There Definitely Were Hard Times…as a Teenager Losing My Brother. He Died in a Boat Accident When I Was 15 and He Was 22, and We Were Very Close. I Have One Brother Now, Roman. I Think Our Family Is so Close Because We Would Go on Location with My Dad Sometimes, and We Weren’t Around Neighborhood Kids and so We Had to Hang Out with Each Other and Be Friends with Each Other.
I Try to Just Make What I Want to Make or What I Would Want to See. I Try Not to Think About the Audience Too Much.
There Are Always Things That I Wish Were Different, or I Feel Like I’ve Made Mistakes. but It’s Just Part of It. I Don’t Mind That It’s a Little Homemade.
My Friend’s 12-Year-old Son Is Really into Rick Ross, and I Was Like, What’s the Most Thug Song That Would Be the Most Poseur-ish for This Blond Girl to Be Playing?
The Story of the Bling Ring Seemed to Say so Much About What’s Happening in Our Culture Today – All the Interest in Reality Stars and Kids Posting Pictures on Facebook All the Time.
People Tell Me How Proud of Me My Father Is. Now That I Have a Kid, I Get It. She Can Make a Little Drawing and It’s so Exciting.
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At age 32, she became the youngest woman ever nominated for the Best Director Oscar for Lost in Translation 2003.
Sofia and her ex-husband Spike Jonze were the first married couple to both receive Best Director Oscar nominations.
With her 2004 Oscar win for screenwriting, she joined cousin Nicolas Cage in making the Coppola family the second family to have three generations of Oscar winners, following her father Francis Ford Coppola and grandfather Carmine Coppola.
She is one of few cast members to appear in all three Godfather films: as a baby in The Godfather 1972, a child on a steamboat in The Godfather Part II 1974, and Mary Corleone in The Godfather Part III 1990.
She is the first American woman and third woman overall to be nominated for the Best Director Academy Award.
She is one of a select few who have won both an Academy Award and a Razzie.
Sofia is the daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola and Eleanor Coppola.
Her friendship with Quentin Tarantino blossomed into a serious relationship after her separation from Spike Jonze.
She played the niece of her real-life aunt Talia Shire in The Godfather Part III 1990.
She replaced Winona Ryder as Mary Corleone in The Godfather Part III 1990.
She gave birth to her first daughter Romy Croquet on November 28, 2006; the father is her second husband Thomas Mars.
Her favorite films include Rumble Fish 1983, The Last Picture Show 1971, Sixteen Candles 1984, Lolita 1962, and Breathless 1960.
Her first film appearance was as the baby in the baptism scene of The Godfather 1972, which inspired a scene in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith 2005.
She is cousin to Nicolas Cage, Marc Coppola, and Christopher Coppola.
She traveled with her parents on location: to the Philippines for Apocalypse Now 1979 and to Oklahoma during The Outsiders 1983.
Her father is of Italian descent; her mother is of British Isles ancestry.
Designer Marc Jacobs named the Sofia Bag after her.
She is cousin to Jason Schwartzman and Robert Schwartzman.
In 2004, she became the first American woman nominated for a Best Director Oscar.
She directed Bill Murray to an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in Lost in Translation 2003.
She studied photography at Mills College and painting at California Institute of the Arts.
She married Thomas Mars on August 27, 2011; they have two daughters.
She is one of two Star Wars cast members to direct a castmate in a movie; she directed Hayden Christensen in The Virgin Suicides 1999 and Rose Byrne in Marie Antoinette 2006.
She is niece of Talia Shire, David Shire, Jack Schwartzman, and August Coppola.
She served on the Official Competition jury at the 67th Cannes International Film Festival in 2014.
She was attached to direct a live-action adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid for Universal in 2014 but left due to creative differences.
She never desired to become an actress; she was cast as Mary Corleone as a last-minute replacement.
She designs for street fashion label Milkfed.
She gave birth to her second daughter Cosima Croquet on May 18, 2010.
She lives in an apartment in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
She has appeared in eight films directed by her father Francis Ford Coppola.
She appeared in two Best Picture Oscar winners: The Godfather 1972 and The Godfather Part II 1974.
She directed her cousin Jason Schwartzman in Marie Antoinette 2006.
She collaborated with Louis Vuitton on handbags 2008 and the resort collection 2012 2011.
Her favorite band is The Chemical Brothers.
She is an alumna of the children’s theatre group MET2.
She is aunt of Gia Coppola.
She is granddaughter of Carmine Coppola and Italia Coppola.
She is sister of Roman Coppola and Gian-Carlo Coppola.
Her fragrance of choice is Fracas by Robert Piguet.
She is great-granddaughter of Francesco Pennino.
She shares a birthday with George Lucas.
She was the baby being baptised in The Godfather.
She is friend of Zoe R. Cassavetes.
She attended film school at Cal Arts.
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