Anton Coppola birth of his nephew Nicolas Cage's grandson Lucian Augustus Coppola Cage and he turned 100 in March 2017. Among his works are a violin concerto, a symphony, and "Sacco and Vanzetti", an opera in both Italian and English about immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti. In the 1950s and 1960s, Coppola was the musical director of six Broadway musicals, including "Silk Stockings", "Bravo Giovanni" and "The Boy Friend". He conducted two film scores, 1990's "The Godfather Part III" and 1992's "Dracula". He appeared in the former, shown conducting "Cavalleria rusticana" in the Teatro Massimo of Palermo. He debuted with the New York
Sofia Coppola Kirsten Dunst. The film premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, where Coppola became the second woman (and the first American woman) to win the Best Director award. Coppola was first drawn to the story after reading the book by Jeffrey Eugenides in 1995, at the recommendation of musician Thurston Moore. Coppola said she felt really understood the teenage experience and the mystery that exists between boys and girls, as well as emotions. She has also said that if not for the book, she does not know that she would have a career in film. Coppola was scared to direct