Sofia Coppola
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"Sofia Carmina Coppola" is an American screenwriter, film director/director, film producer/producer and actress. In 2003, she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the comedy-drama Lost in Translation (film)/Lost in Translation, and became the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. In 2010, with the drama Somewhere (film)/Somewhere, she became the first American woman (and fourth American filmmaker) to win the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. Her father is director, producer and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola.

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It's been great to have positive reviews, especially because for so long I put myself completely into it. You're so vulnerable putting yourself up to be reviewed, so it's exciting that they see something in it that I intended.

We put a lot of time and effort into his hair, ... And Josh came up with that great walk. I'm such a fan of his. I think he's great.

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.