With a long list of awards for her film projects, Sofia Coppola is known no longer for being the daughter of the great director, but for becoming a great director herself.
Who is Sofia Coppola
Sofia Carmina Coppola (New York, May 14, 1971) is an American actress, director and screenwriter.
She was born in New York City as the youngest child in the family of her mother eleanor and father Francis Ford Coppola. She is a documentary maker and he is a director, and they raise her in a rural California setting.
Here he attends the California Institute of the Arts and is interested in the numerous possibilities associated with this sector. He tries various paths before finding the definitive one as a director and in fact with the end of the 80s he tries to insert himself as an actress after the first tests as an extra in the course of adolescence. Accused of nepotism she detaches herself from him and thus acts in “Anna”, by Yurek Bogayevicz, but soon returns to collaborate with Francis through his participation in the trilogy “The Godfather.
Sofia Coppola and the period as an actress
There has been much discussion about the effect this has had father and daughter collaboration. Many argue that she made him look bad and cut her wings even before actually fitting in. However, Sofia has repeatedly stated that she is in one experimentation phase of his life and in which he wanted to lend a hand to his father. After this difficult entry there are few films in which she still participates as an actress, among these we remember “The boys of 56th street”, “Cotton Club” and “Peggy Sue got married”.
In fact, the others are certainly not helping her career. La Coppola also gets a Razzie Award for Worst Actress supporting her role in “The Godfather – Part III”, so before the 2000s her career as an actress is dwindling. However, it focuses on another artistic form belonging to the film industry: the direction.
Sofia Coppola and the turning point with the role of director
She made her debut as a director through the short film “Lick the Star” which allows her to understand what her true passion is. This is followed by a series of very successful films such as “The Garden of Virgins Suicides” in 1999, “Lost in Translation” in 2003 and “Marie Antoinette” in 2006. Subsequently then in 2010 he participated in the Venice International Film Festival with the film “Somewhere” with which he obtained the Golden Lion.
These successes are actually followed by others such as “Bling Ring” presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. Four years later he made “L’inganno” based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Cullinan starring Kirsten Dunst and Nicole Kidman and with which he wins on the other hand the prize like best direction at the Cannes Film Festival.
Despite a difficult career start and new allegations even once she became a director, she managed to earn her achievements in an authentic way by treasuring her life experiences. Surely given her personal experience, she now prefers to keep a low profile also to protect her family and avoid that it may one day be the subject of the same criticisms she received.