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Name Professor Course Date Women in Filmmaking: Sofia Coppola Sofia Coppola is among the famous female filmmakers around the world. She can best be described as a director, actor, producer, and screenwriter having starred in over three films. Coppola was born in 1971 to Francis Ford Coppola and Eleanor Coppola CITATION Sof161 l 1033 (Sofia Coppola-IMDb). Her father is well known for his production of the famous Godfather Series. She is best known for directing Lost in Translation and The Virgin Suicides and her acting roles in the series Godfather. According to biography.com, Lost in Translation was nominated and won the Best Original Screenplay Award in 2003. Some critics credit her success in the film world to her family tree. Whether there is some influence from the family, Sofia Coppola has proved her talent and ambition to push her career forward as a personal choice. Her work as a writer and director in The Virgin Suicides proves her skills behind the camera. She is now the first American female filmmakers to receive the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. In essence, her career in the film industry started earlier as a child starring in her father’s work, The Godfather. Later, she took roles in other movies such as Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and The Cotton Club (1984).She would soon be demoralized as an actress after receiving bad criticism during a Golden Raspberry Awards in 1990 and soon started pursuing roles behind the camera. After graduating from the California Institute of Arts, she focused on photography and fashion design. In the mid-1990s, she wrote and directed The Virgin Suicides which turned out to be a hit in Hollywood. The
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