Sofia Coppola

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Coppola in Cannes 2014

Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971 in New York ) is an American actress , screenwriter , director and Oscar winner.

Life

Sofia Coppola is the daughter of the filmmakers Francis Ford Coppola and Eleanor Coppola , the sister of Roman Coppola and the cousin of the actor Nicolas Cage . She had her first film appearance in the film The Godfather of Her Father as a ten-week-old baby and eighteen years later even got an important supporting role as the daughter of Don Corleone in the third part of the trilogy after Winona Ryder left because of illness. For this portrayal she received scathing reviews and two Golden Raspberries for Worst Supporting Actress and Worst Newcomer. As a result, she ended her acting career. (An exception to this is her role as a gymnast in the 1997 music video for the song Elektrobank by The Chemical Brothers .)

After studying painting and photography , she founded the fashion company MilkFed in Japan. The later creation of her film Lost in Translation can also be traced back to this time . Five years after writing Life Without Zoe , her father's episode of The New York Stories (1989), Coppola began adapting the Jeffrey Eugenides novel The Suicide Sisters . Her debut film The Virgin Suicides was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999 and won international film awards.

Her next film, Lost in Translation (2003), won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and made Coppola the first American woman to be nominated for the Directing Award (she was only the third woman in that category). The international hit also received several awards at the Golden Globes , the Independent Spirit Awards and the Venice Film Festival . Coppola's third directorial work, Marie Antoinette , was awarded the national education prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival by a jury composed of six teachers, two cinema experts and two film students led by Frédéric Mitterrand . Kirsten Dunst and Coppola's cousin Jason Schwartzman played the leading roles .

In her fourth feature film Somewhere in 2010, Coppola devoted herself to the “sad everyday life of the star cult” and focused on a famous actor (played by Stephen Dorff ) who is visited by his eleven-year-old daughter ( Elle Fanning ). The film was awarded the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice Film Festival .

After a seven-year relationship with director Spike Jonze , the two married on June 26, 1999. The marriage divorced in 2003, before Coppola was said to have had an affair with filmmaker Quentin Tarantino . Since 2005 she has lived with the French Thomas Mars , singer of the band Phoenix . She met him in 1999 while filming her film The Virgin Suicides . On August 27, 2011, Coppola and Mars were married in the Italian village of Bernalda . The couple has two daughters: Romy (born November 28, 2006 in Paris ) and Cosima (born May 18, 2010).

In 2016 she made her operatic debut with Verdi's La Traviata as part of the “Fashion Weekend 2016” at the Rome Opera . The costumes for the colorful production came from Valentino , the set was designed by British set designer Nathan Crowley

In 2017, Coppola shot the historical thriller Die Verführten with Nicole Kidman , Colin Farrell , Elle Fanning and Kirsten Dunst in the leading roles. The film is based on the book A Painted Devil by Thomas P. Cullinan , which was filmed in 1971 under the direction of Don Siegel under the title Deceived . The seduced competed in the competition at the 70th Cannes Film Festival and brought Coppola the directing award there.

Filmography

Sofia Coppola (2010)

Screenwriter and director

Music Videos (Director)

Commercials (Director)

  • 2008: Miss Dior Chérie
  • 2012: Marni for H&M

actress

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Tobias Kniebe: The floating woman. Sofia Coppola is the most important director of our time. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 30./31. October / 1. November 2010, p. 3.
  • Johannes Wende (Ed.): Sofia Coppola . Edition text + criticism, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86916-247-8 , (film concepts, issue 29)

Web links

Commons : Sofia Coppola  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Michael Althen: The emptiness of true sensation . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 4, 2010, No. 205, p. 33.
  2. See Venezia: Il Leone d'Oro va a Sofia Coppola con “Somewhere” on lastampa.it, September 11, 2010, accessed on September 11, 2010.
  3. Cf. A golden lion for the ex ( memento of the original from September 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on isatrends.at, September 12, 2010, accessed on February 20, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / isatrends.at
  4. La Traviata by Sofia Coppola & Valentino on ARD.de