Sofia Coppola, the daughter of famed director Francis Ford Coppola, has created a respected name for herself with her own directorial success. Her style is predominantly focused on aesthetics over plot and she takes influences from pop art and avant garde photographers and filmmakers. The result is that her movies are very visually and aurally stimulatingscene.
Motion Pictures
* '''Marie Antoinette''': Follows Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst) starting with her marriage to Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman) until the French revolution ousted them from Versailles. Sofia Coppola uses an anachronistic soundtrack and a bright color palette to give it a contemporary pop culture aesthetic. It won several awards for Art Direction and Costume Design, including the Academy Award for Costume Design.
* '''Somewhere''': This upcoming film by Coppola is a dramedy about an outcontrol Hollywood star (Stephen Dorff) who is forced to alter his lifestyle when his daughter (Elle Fanning) visits.
Music Videos
* "Playground Love" by Air
* "This Here Giraffe" by The Flaming Lips
* "City Girl" by Kevin Shields
* "Shine" by Walt Mink
* "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" by The White Stripes
Extras
* Short Film: She's featured on the DVD '''Cut Shorts: A Collection of Short Films and Music Videos by David Markey From 1974-2004''' in archive footage and had directed her own short film called '''Lick The Star.'''
* Acting: Sofia Coppola has been featured in a few movies before she went behind the camera. She played Mary Corleone in Anne Chambers in Tim Burton's '''The Godfather: Part III'''.
