Since then, director Francis Ford Coppola’s monumental fame from the “Godfather trilogy” and “Doomsday Now” hit her with insinuations of nepotism as she herself went the directing route.
Before that, she had starred in seven of her father’s films. Most recently as an 18-year-old in “Godfather III”, where her efforts received so little publicity that it stopped her acting dreams.
Instead, she threw herself into modeling, design, and photography before moving on to her father’s halfway as a director and screenwriter.
She already attracted attention with her second film, “The Virgin Suicides” in 1999. And after the lingering sequel “Lost in Translation”, which won an Oscar for best screenplay, no one whispered “daddy’s little girl” anymore.
As the first woman ever, she was also nominated for an Oscar as Best Director. The film made room for one of Bill Murray’s very best roles as a lone whiskey advertising column lost in Asian jet lag in a culture he doesn’t grasp.
In addition to an Oscar, the film Sofia Coppola secured a sea of other awards and wide recognition as an artist with the format to go her own ways.
The film “Somewhere” about superficial celebrity culture secured her first prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Critics have said that her films always revolve around the affluent, creative class and its existential boredom.
Her proponents cite her abilities to portray human relationships across culture and age with a feminine but strong visual expression. At Sofia Coppola, there is a long way to go for hectic Hollywood gadagung and wild violence.
With the melodrama “The Beguiled” in 2017 about women’s erotic desires under heavy dress skirts in the American Civil War, she came strong again and received the award in Cannes as best director.
The life as a daughter of a larger than life director she partly processed in her latest, most personal film “On the Rocks” from 2020. With a focus on the emotional consequences of growing up in the shadow of a charismatic father.
Privately, she was married for some years to director Spike Jonze. Since then, she was for a period girlfriend with Quentin Tarantino.
But since 2011 she has been married to the French musician and lead singer Thomas Mars, with whom she has two daughters.
Source: The Nordic Page