Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola is an American filmmaker whose feature debut, The Virgin Suicides (1999), adapted Jeffrey Eugenides’s novel. Her second feature, Lost in Translation, brought her the 2004 Academy Award for original screenplay and a nomination for directing.

Her subsequent films include Marie Antoinette, Somewhere and The Bling Ring. Somewhere won the Golden Lion at Venice in 2010, and she received the directing prize at Cannes in 2017 for The Beguiled. Her work has moved between contemporary stories and period settings.