Biography

Sun filmed through leaves

Character seen gazing out of a car window from the outside, looking in

Character walking down a long hallway

Introduction scene focusing on the main character during an unidentified point in time, shown to express their loneliness

Casts former child actors as her leads (Kirsten Dunst, Scarlett Johansson, Stephen Dorff, Emma Watson).

Is the first American woman and third woman overall to be nominated for the Best Director Academy Award.

With her 2004 Oscar win for screenwriting, she joined her cousin Nicolas Cage in making their family, the Coppolas, the second family to have three generations of Oscar winners with her father, Francis Ford Coppola; grandfather, Carmine Coppola; cousin Nicolas Cage, and herself all winners. The first family is the Huston: Anjelica Huston, John Huston, and Walter Huston.

Sofia and her ex-husband Spike Jonze were the first married couple to both receive Best-Director Oscar nominations.

Along with Al Pacino, she was one of the cast members who was involved in all three of The Godfather films: she played the christened baby in The Godfather (1972); a child on a steamboat in The Godfather Part II (1974); and Mary Corleone in The Godfather Part III (1990). Her appearances in the first two movies went uncredited.

At age 32, became the youngest woman ever to be Oscar-nominated as Best Director for Lost in Translation (2003).

On taking her stage name, "Domino", at the age of 11: "I thought it was glamorous."

"You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion, but I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity." - when discussing the topic of her movie, Marie Antoinette (2006).

That's the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

[on Marie Antoinette (2006)] All I can say is that I set out to challenge myself with each movie, and having to do a period film was a huge challenge. How to do it in a fresh way, and from the point of view of a strange girl in a strange world? If you attempt something new, it's always a risk.

I was going to art school and trying different things. I was interested in a lot of, mostly visual arts. I didn't know what I wanted to do and then I made a short film and felt like it was a combination of all these interests of mine with design and photography and music. But it was really when I read the book The Virgin Suicides that made me wanna make a movie.