Sofia Coppola Trivia Questions

Her 1999 directorial debut adapted Eugenides’ novel. It launched her career and is praised for its dreamy, melancholic tone and visual style.

Scorsese directed 'The Departed' alone. Coppola has never co-directed a major film with him, though they are friends and she acted in his 'The Godfather Part III.'

Kathryn Bigelow won Best Director for 'The Hurt Locker' in 2010. Coppola has never won that Oscar, though she was nominated for 'Lost in Translation.'

Nicolas Cage is her cousin, but he did not star in 'Lost in Translation.' Bill Murray starred and was Oscar-nominated for it. Cage won his Oscar for 'Leaving Las Vegas.'

Sofia Coppola made an uncredited cameo as a child immigrant on the ship arriving at Ellis Island in the 1974 film The Godfather Part II, directed by her father Francis Ford Coppola.

She never directed a Beastie Boys video. Her ex-husband Spike Jonze directed several for them, including 'Sabotage'. Coppola directed music videos for Air and The White Stripes.

Somewhere won the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice Film Festival in 2010, making Sofia Coppola the first American woman to claim the festival's top prize.

Her daughter's name is Romy, not Marie or Antoinette. She has two daughters with musician Thomas Mars; the film title was just a coincidence.