Sofia Coppola the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. In 2013, she directed the satirical crime film "The Bling Ring", based on the crime ring of the same name. At the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, Coppola became the second woman (and the first American woman) in the festival's history to win the Best Director award, for the drama film "The Beguiled". Sofia Coppola was born in New York City, the youngest child and only daughter of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola (née Neil) and director Francis Ford Coppola. Her father is of Italian descent. She was raised on her parents' farm in
Gian-Carlo Coppola film "Palo Alto". Francis Ford Coppola subsequently dedicated 1988's "" to his son. A scene in Francis Ford Coppola's 2011 film "Twixt" shows the death of a character as being similar to his son's death. At the Inglenook winery, owned by Eleanor and Francis in Napa, California, there is a 12-acre vineyard named the 'Gio vineyard,' after Gian-Carlo by the workers, which was planted in 1988. Eleanor Coppola's touring art installation, 'Circle of Memory,' commemorates the life of Gian-Carlo and has been exhibited in San Diego, Oakland, Sante Fe, Montpellier, Salzburg, Stockholm, and Oslo. Gian-Carlo Coppola Gian-Carlo Coppola (September 17,