awards for arts achievement

After doing costume design on two films, Sofia Coppola studied fine art at the California Institute of the Arts. She wrote and directed her first film, The Virgin Suicides, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. The film starred James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, and Josh Hartnett and was adapted from Jeffrey Eugenides’ best-selling novel. Ms. Coppola finished her second feature film, Lost in Translation, which opened to critical acclaim this past September. The New York Times Magazine recently lauded her as “the most original and promising young female filmmaker in America.”