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Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14 , 1971 in New York City ) is an American film Director , Actress , Producer , Screenwriter . She is the daughter of Italian American director Francis Ford Coppola and the sister of Roman Coppola . She is the first American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director and is also an Academy Award winning Writer . She was married to director Spike Jonze on June 26 , 1999 but on December 5 , 2003 amid rumors of her infidelity during long stints of living on her own in New York City, Coppola filed for divorce citing "irreconcilable differences". She is niece to Oscar-nominated actress Talia Shire and cousin to Nicolas Cage , Jason Schwartzman and Robert Schwartzman . She attended Mills College and CalArts . CAREER Coppola's career in film began early, as she appeared as an infant or a child extra in several of her father's films. The best known of these anonymous roles is her appearance in '' The Godfather '' as the baby boy in the christening scene. '''' ( 1999 ). She played a gymnast in the video for "Elektrobank" by the Chemical Brothers . Coppola is now better known as a successful film director. She has directed three films: '' Lick The Star '' ( 1996 ) '' The Virgin Suicides '' ( 1999 ) and '' Lost In Translation '' ( 2003 ). The latter won the Academy Award for original screenplay and three Golden Globe awards including Best Picture. With her Oscar nomination for Best Director (for ''Lost in Translation''), Coppola became only the third woman (and the first American woman) to receive an Oscar nomination for film direction. She lost to Peter Jackson (director of the '' Lord Of The Rings '' Trilogy ). Coppola's forthcoming film is a Biopic of Marie Antoinette adapted from the biography by British historian Lady Antonia Fraser . Kirsten Dunst is set to play the lead role, and Coppola has cast her cousin Jason Schwartzman as Marie-Antoinette's husband, King Louis XVI . CRITICISM The most common criticism of Coppola is that her career has only been possible due to the Nepotism of her father. In addition to her much-derided performance in the final ''Godfather'' film, some critics have called her directorial skills over-rated, and argue that without her father's connections she would never have achieved her current fame. Her supporters respond that the general critical acclaim that greeted her two major films indicates she has talent regardless of how the films were produced. Two such critics were Steve Lowe & Alan McArthur , two social Satirists , who in their debut book, Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? , wrote an extremely scathing review of her talents. FILMOGRAPHY Director
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