Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American filmmaker and actress.
81 Facts About Sofia Coppola
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Sofia Coppola has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Golden Lion, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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Sofia Coppola later appeared in several music videos, as well as a supporting role in Peggy Sue Got Married.
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Sofia Coppola then portrayed Mary Corleone, the daughter of Michael Corleone, in The Godfather Part III.
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Sofia Coppola transitioned her career into filmmaking by making her feature-length directorial debut with the coming-of-age drama The Virgin Suicides.
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Sofia Coppola received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the comedy-drama Lost in Translation, and became the third woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.
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Sofia Coppola has since directed the historical drama Marie Antoinette, the family drama Somewhere, the satirical crime drama The Bling Ring, the southern gothic thriller The Beguiled, and the comedy On the Rocks.
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In 2015, Sofia Coppola released the Netflix Christmas musical comedy special A Very Murray Christmas, starring Bill Murray, which earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.
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Sofia Coppola was born in New York City on May 14,1971, the youngest child and only daughter of documentarian Eleanor and filmmaker Francis Ford Sofia Coppola.
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Sofia Coppola is of Italian descent on her father's side and was raised on her parents' farm in Rutherford, California.
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Sofia Coppola later attended Mills College and the California Institute of the Arts.
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Sofia Coppola had many varying interests growing up, including fashion, photography, music, and design, and did not initially intend to become a filmmaker.
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Sofia Coppola's acting career, marked by frequent criticisms of nepotism and negative reviews, began while she was an infant, as she made background appearances in seven of her father's films.
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Sofia Coppola acted in her father's films The Outsiders, in a scene where Matt Dillon, Tommy Howell, and Ralph Macchio are eating at a Dairy Queen; Rumble Fish ; The Cotton Club ; and Peggy Sue Got Married, in which she portrayed Kathleen Turner's sister Nancy.
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Frankenweenie was the first film Sofia Coppola performed in that was not associated with her father; however, it often goes unnoted due to her stage name "Domino", which she adopted at the time because she thought it was glamorous.
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Sofia Coppola returned to her father's Godfather trilogy in both the second and third Godfather films, playing an immigrant child in The Godfather Part II and playing Michael Corleone's daughter in The Godfather Part III after the originally-cast actress, Winona Ryder, dropped out of the film at the last minute due to nervous exhaustion.
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Sofia Coppola has said that she never really wanted to act and only did it to help out when her father asked her to.
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Sofia Coppola later stated that she was not hurt by the criticism from her work in the film because she never especially wanted an acting career.
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In 2022, Sofia Coppola guest-starred as herself with her husband Thomas Mars and fellow director Jim Jarmusch in a 2022 episode of the horror comedy series What We Do in the Shadows.
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Sofia Coppola made her feature film directing debut with The Virgin Suicides ; it received critical acclaim upon its premiere in North America at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and was released later that year.
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Sofia Coppola won the Academy Award for her original screenplay and three Golden Globe Awards including Best Picture Musical or Comedy.
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Sofia Coppola was the second woman, after Edith Head, to be nominated for three Oscars in one night.
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In 2004, Sofia Coppola was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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In November 2010, Sofia Coppola was interviewed by Joel Coen, who professed his admiration of her work, at the DGA screening of Somewhere in New York City.
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An announcement in mid-December 2013 stated that American Zoetrope had successfully attained the screen rights for the memoir Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father and that Sofia Coppola would adapt the book with Andrew Durham.
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In March 2014, it was reported that Sofia Coppola was in negotiations to direct a live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid from a script by Caroline Thompson.
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Sofia Coppola wanted to shoot her version underwater, and although she later admitted that such a prospect was unrealistic, test footage was shot.
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In June 2015, it was announced Sofia Coppola had dropped out of the film due to creative differences.
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Sofia Coppola collaborated again with her Lost in Translation star Bill Murray on A Very Murray Christmas, which starred Murray and was co-written by herself, Murray and Mitch Glazer.
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Sofia Coppola directed The Beguiled, a remake of the 1971 eponymous Southern Gothic film, starring Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, and Kirsten Dunst.
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The film premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, where Sofia Coppola became the second woman to win the Best Director award.
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Sofia Coppola again worked with Bill Murray on the film, On the Rocks, starring Murray and Rashida Jones.
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Sofia Coppola was first drawn to the story after reading the book by Jeffrey Eugenides in 1995, at the recommendation of musician Thurston Moore.
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Sofia Coppola said she felt the novel's author understood the teenage experience.
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Specifically, Sofia Coppola has highlighted the representation of teenagers "lazing around," a situation she connected with but felt was not seen very much in films in any relatable way.
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Sofia Coppola secured the rights to the novel without her father's help, and adapted the screenplay herself.
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The low-budget film drew praise from critics, and represented the point at which Sofia Coppola broke out of her father's shadow as a filmmaker in her own right.
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Sofia Coppola shot Lost in Translation in 27 days, with a small crew, working without permits.
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Sofia Coppola herself has claimed that she was initially drawn towards the character of Marie Antoinette as an innocent and caring character who found herself in a situation outside of her control, and that rather than creating a historical representation, she wanted to create a more intimate look into the world of the heroine.
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Sofia Coppola sees, and we see exactly what she sees.
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The film received generally positive reviews, with many praising its style and performances, while some felt that the film glamorized the crimes in the story and failed to make an assertive message about them through the narrative; "Sofia Coppola neither makes a case for her characters nor places them inside of some kind of moral or critical framework; they simply pass through the frame, listing off name brands and staring at their phones,".
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Sofia Coppola cited her intrigue with the South as part of the story's intrigue.
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Sofia Coppola has cited Gone with the Wind as her inspiration for creating a film that was relatable despite its position within a different era.
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Sofia Coppola responded to these allegations by citing the presence of young girls among her moviegoing audience.
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Sofia Coppola described her version of the film as a reinterpretation, rather than a remake, of Don Siegel's 1971 adaption of the same book.
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Sofia Coppola wanted to tell the story of the male soldier entering into a classically southern and female environment from the point of view of the women and represent what that was like for them.
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Sofia Coppola thought that the earlier version made the characters out to be crazy caricatures and did not allow the viewer to know them.
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The Beguiled was made as a contrast to The Bling Ring, and Sofia Coppola has explained that she needed to correct that film's harsh Los Angeles aesthetic with something more beautiful and poetic.
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Sofia Coppola arrived at a career in filmmaking with a background by means of acting, modeling, and design, all of which have influenced her directorial work.
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Sofia Coppola's upbringing in a Hollywood family has greatly influenced her work, as well as her public reception and image, and she has always had to fight accusations surrounding her background of privilege.
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Sofia Coppola has described some of her influences as coming from her own work, with each film actively influencing the next.
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Sofia Coppola has said that she is proud of the more "girly" aspects of her work and that she feels that she has a feminine point of view that she is happy to project.
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Sofia Coppola has cited her upbringing around so many strong men as a possible reason for her strong connection to femininity.
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Sofia Coppola has said that big budget productions hinder her creative freedom, and so she prefers to work on films she can control.
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Sofia Coppola has criticized big studio production for its focus on business rather than art.
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Sofia Coppola has cited her own perceptions of gaps in the film industry as her own inspiration, explaining that she has always made the films that she herself would have wanted to see as a younger person.
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Sofia Coppola has described this younger demographic of girls as deprived of high-quality videography and as disrespected as an audience.
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Sofia Coppola has said that she likes making films for a young audience because she perceives them as smarter and more sophisticated than they are often given credit for.
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Sofia Coppola has said that she is aware of her hard work and is grateful for her film education and that her connections in the film industry were helpful because of the lack of female directors.
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Sofia Coppola said that she did what she could and is confident that her work is her own.
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Sofia Coppola has said that she likes being independent but respects him and his suggestions, though in the end always makes the choice she feels is right for a given movie.
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Sofia Coppola professed a love for being behind the camera and is not upset by the divisive reactions to some of her films.
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Sofia Coppola has said that she "would rather do something that some people really connect to and some people reject" and that she never wants to make something that is just mediocre.
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Sofia Coppola's films' focus on protagonists in life transitions and crises in their lives.
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Sofia Coppola's characters feel stranded in their environments and alone even in the midst of other people.
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Sofia Coppola's works utilize the "feminine gaze" and demonstrate a knowledge of feminist film theory, such as Laura Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema".
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In October 2014, Sofia Coppola launched a series of Christmas ads for the clothing chain Gap.
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In May 2020, it was announced Sofia Coppola would write and direct an adaptation of The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton for Apple TV+.
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At the beginning of the 1990s, Sofia Coppola was often featured in girl-oriented magazines like Seventeen and YM.
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The campaign photographs of Sofia Coppola were shot by photographer Jurgen Teller.
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In 2017, before Sofia Coppola started pre-production on The Beguiled, she was asked by Italian state broadcaster Rai Com from All'Opera to direct their latest production of La Traviata.
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Sofia Coppola said in an interview she "could not turn down the project" with designer and fashion icon Valentino Garavani designing the costumes for this 15 show run of La Traviata.
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Sofia Coppola discusses how Valentino "really motivated me to take a chance and do something that was scary for me and very unfamiliar," and promised a "traditional" production that could nevertheless be appreciated by those who are not opera connoisseurs.
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In 1992, Sofia Coppola met director Spike Jonze; they married in 1999 and divorced in 2003.
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Sofia Coppola married musician Thomas Mars on August 27,2011, at Palazzo Margherita in Bernalda, Italy.
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Sofia Coppola has maintained a low public profile for her family, aiming for her daughters' lives to be unaffected by her career and travel.
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Sofia Coppola was nominated for three Academy Awards for her film Lost in Translation, in the categories of Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.
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Sofia Coppola would go on to win for Best Original Screenplay but lost the other two nominations to Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
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Sofia Coppola remains the youngest woman to be nominated in the Best Director category.
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Sofia Coppola is the first American woman to win the award.
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On May 28,2017, Sofia Coppola was awarded the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival for The Beguiled, making her the second ever woman to win the award.