Valencia’s California Institute of the Arts has reason to crow again about a former student. Sofia Coppola on Sunday became the second woman in 71 years to win Best Director at Cannes.
The 46-year-old daughter of “Godfather” director Francia Ford Coppola (who appeared as an infant in the movie) “was honored for directing her film ‘The Beguiled,’ a thriller starring Nicole Kidman as a woman who runs a Southern girls’ boarding school during the Civil War,” noted CNN.
“The last female director to win was Yuliya Solntseva, a Russian director who earned the award for her 1961 drama ‘Chronicle of Flaming Years.’”
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At CalArts in the early 1990s, Sofia Coppola enrolled in a fine arts program focusing on photography and fashion design. But she left in 1992, not having graduated.
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