SOFIA COPPOLA

Sofia Coppola is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actress.

Sofia Coppola was born on May 14th, 1971, in New York City.

She wrote and directed the 1999 film The Virgin Suicides based on the novel of the same name by Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (1993).

In 2003 she directed the comedy-drama Lost in Translation with the veteran comic actor Bill Murray and she won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

In 2010, she became the first American woman to win the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.

In 2017, she won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, making her the second woman to win it.

Cinema has always been part of her life. She is the daughter of the famous director, producer, and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola.

Sofia Coppola has two daughters with her boyfriend Thomas Mars Croquet, a French singer. The couple met whilst producing the soundtrack for one of Coppola's films.

Sofia Coppola has faced sexism in the film industry, and her feminine work has been criticized. But she is proud of the more “girly” aspects of her work and she feels that she has a feminine point of view that she is happy to project.

JOSÉ LUIS CAMINO – English for Fun 3A