| Sofia Coppola | |
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Sofia Coppola, November 7, 2010 |
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| Born | Sofia Carmina Coppola May 14, 1971 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | director, producer, screenwriter, actress |
| Years active | 1972 - present |
| Influenced by | Francis Ford Coppola, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Bogdanovich, François Truffaut, Michelangelo Antonioni, Bob Fosse, John Hughes |
| Spouse | Spike Jonze (1999-2003)(divorced) Thomas Mars (2011-present) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents | Francis Ford Coppola (father) Eleanor Coppola (mother) |
| Relatives | Gian-Carlo Coppola (brother) Roman Coppola (brother) Jason Schwartzman (cousin) Robert Schwartzman (cousin) Nicolas Cage (cousin) Marc Coppola (cousin) Christopher Coppola (cousin) Talia Shire (aunt) |
Sofia Carmina Coppola ( /ˈkoʊpələ/ koh-pə-lə; born May 14, 1971) is an American screenwriter, film director, actress, and producer. In 2003 she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation, and became the third woman (and the first American woman) to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing. In 2010, with Somewhere, she became the first American woman (and fourth American filmmaker) to win the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.[1]
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Coppola was born in New York City, New York, the youngest child and only daughter of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola (née Neil) and director Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather and Apocalypse Now), granddaughter of the composer Carmine Coppola, sister of Roman Coppola and Gian-Carlo Coppola, niece of her father's siblings August Coppola and Talia Shire, and a cousin of Nicolas Cage, Jason Schwartzman and Robert Carmine.[2] When she was just 14 years old, her brother Gian-Carlo was killed in a boating accident. She attended high school at St. Helena High School and graduated class of 1990. She later went to Mills College and the California Institute of the Arts, and interned with Chanel when she was fifteen years old.[3][4] After graduating, Coppola started a clothing line called Milkfed that is sold exclusively in Japan.[5]
Coppola's acting career, frequently described as based largely upon nepotism,[6][7][8] began as an infant: she made background appearances in seven of her father's films. The best known of these early roles is her appearance in The Godfather as the baby boy in the christening scene.[9][10] She is also seen in her father's film The Outsiders in a scene where Matt Dillon, Tommy Howell, and Ralph Macchio are eating at a Dairy Queen before the famous burning church scene.
Frankenweenie (1984) was the first film she 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.[11]
In 1986, Coppola was cast as Kathleen Turner's sister, Nancy Kelcher, in Peggy Sue Got Married. The film was directed by her father, Francis Ford Coppola, and costarred her cousin, Nicolas Cage.
The 1989 short film entitled Life Without Zoe was released as part of a tripartite anthology film, New York Stories. It was written by Sofia Coppola and her father, Francis Ford Coppola (who also directed the film).
Her best-known acting role is Mary Corleone in The Godfather Part III (1990), a significant role for which she was cast by her father after Winona Ryder fell ill. Her critically panned performance (for which she received the award of "Worst New Star" in the 1990 Golden Raspberry Awards) effectively ended her acting career, save for appearances in the 1992 independent film Inside Monkey Zetterland, and in the background of films by her friends and family. In 1999, she appeared as Saché in George Lucas' Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. She has since been quoted as saying she wasn't hurt by the criticism from her role in The Godfather Part III, because she never especially wanted an acting career.[12]
Coppola can also be seen in several music videos from the 1990s, appearing in The Black Crowes' "Sometimes Salvation" and Madonna's "Deeper and Deeper" in 1992 and the Chemical Brothers' "Elektrobank" in 1997, which was directed by her future husband Spike Jonze.
Her first three films were Lick the Star (1998), The Virgin Suicides (1999) and Lost in Translation (2003). Lost in Translation won the Academy Award for her original screenplay and three Golden Globe Awards including Best Picture. Alongside Lina Wertmüller and Jane Campion, Coppola became the third female director to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing. Her win for best original screenplay in 2003 made her a third-generation Oscar winner. In 2004, Coppola was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[13]
Coppola's next film was the biopic Marie Antoinette, adapted from the biography by British historian Antonia Fraser. Kirsten Dunst plays the title character, who marries King Louis XVI, played by Jason Schwartzman, Coppola's cousin. It débuted at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival[14] where, despite boos in the audience, it received a standing ovation.[15] Critics were divided.
Her most recent film is the semi-autobiographical Somewhere (2010). The movie was filmed at Chateau Marmont. The plot focuses on a "bad boy" actor portrayed by Stephen Dorff who is forced to reevaluate his life when his daughter, played by Elle Fanning, arrives unexpectedly.[16] In November of 2010, Coppola was interviewed by Joel Coen, who professed his admiration of Coppola's work, at the DGA screening of Somewhere in New York City.[17]
In the mid-1990s, she and best friend Zoe Cassavetes helmed the short-lived series Hi Octane on Comedy Central. which spotlit performers in underground music, with frequent guests like Donovan Leitch, Mike Watt, Thurston Moore, Beck, and model-actress Jenny Shimizu (whose contribution to the show was teaching viewers the proper way to repair a vehicle transmission).
In December 2008, Coppola's first commercial premiered during an episode of Gossip Girl. The advertisement which she directed for the Christian Dior fragrance Miss Dior Chérie which was shot in France with model Maryna Linchuk was very well received and continues to be popular on YouTube.[18]
At the beginning of the 1990s, she was often featured in girl-oriented magazines like Seventeen and YM. In 1998, she cofounded the clothing line Milk Fed in Japan with friend Stephanie Hayman in cooperation with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon.
In 2002, fashion designer Marc Jacobs hand-picked the actress/director to be the face of his house's fragrance. The campaign involved photographs of her shot by photographer Juergen Teller in his signature grainy style.
Coppola was nominated for three Academy Awards for her 2003 film Lost in Translation, in the categories of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay. She 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.
Her nomination for Best Director made her the first American woman in history to be nominated in that category, and the third overall, after Lina Wertmüller and Jane Campion. In 2010, Kathryn Bigelow became the fourth woman to be nominated, and the first to win the award. Coppola, however, remains the youngest woman to be nominated in the Best Director category.
Her win for Best Original Screenplay resulted in her family becoming the second three-generation Oscar winning family, her grandfather Carmine Coppola and her father Francis Ford Coppola having previously won Oscars. The first family to achieve this feat was the Huston family: Walter, John, and Anjelica.
For her work on Lost in Translation, Coppola also won a Best Screenplay Golden Globe and received a BAFTA nomination.
On September 11, 2010 Somewhere won the Golden Lion, the top prize at the 67th Venice Film Festival.[19]
Coppola married director Spike Jonze in 1999 after a friendship lasting almost a decade; they divorced in 2003.
Coppola lives in Paris. She described her love for the city and her favorite places there, "The Palais-Royal, the Tuileries Garden, the Musee D'Orsay. You can tell I love the city, right? It's a filmmaker's dream there; the colors are beautiful!"[20] There, in Paris, on Tuesday, November 28, 2006, Coppola gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Romy, who is named in honor of her brother Roman. The child's father is Thomas Mars, lead singer of the French rock band Phoenix.[21] Coppola first met Mars while producing the soundtrack to The Virgin Suicides.[22] They have since collaborated on Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette[23] and her fourth film Somewhere.[24]
On December 10, 2009, Mars confirmed that Coppola was pregnant with their second child.[25] A second daughter named Cosima was born in New York City on May 18, 2010.[26]
Coppola and Mars were married on August 27, 2011 at a wedding at her family's villa in Bernalda, Italy.[27]
| Year | Film | Role | Director | Notes |
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| 1972 | The Godfather | Michael Francis Rizzi | Francis Ford Coppola | (uncredited) |
| 1974 | The Godfather Part II | Child on ship | Francis Ford Coppola | (uncredited) |
| 1983 | The Outsiders | Little Girl | Francis Ford Coppola | Credited as 'Domino' |
| Rumble Fish | Donna | Francis Ford Coppola | ||
| 1984 | Frankenweenie | Anne Chambers | Tim Burton | |
| The Cotton Club | Child in Street | Francis Ford Coppola | ||
| 1986 | Peggy Sue Got Married | Nancy Kelcher | Francis Ford Coppola | |
| 1987 | Anna | Noodle | Yurek Bogayevicz | |
| 1988 | Tucker: The Man and His Dream | (uncredited) | Francis Ford Coppola | |
| 1990 | The Godfather Part III | Mary Corleone | Francis Ford Coppola | Worst Supporting Actress |
| 1992 | Inside Monkey Zetterland | Cindy | Jefery Levy | |
| 1999 | Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace | Saché | George Lucas | |
| 2001 | CQ | Enzo's Mistress | Roman Coppola |
| Awards and achievements | ||
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| Preceded by Alexander Payne for About Schmidt |
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for Lost in Translation 2004 |
Succeeded by Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor for Sideways |
| Preceded by Clint Eastwood for Mystic River |
César Award for Best Foreign Film for Lost in Translation 2005 |
Succeeded by Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby |
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