Coppola was named Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival Sunday for her remake of Clint Eastwood’s 1971 Western drama The Beguiled.
Director Sofia Coppola was among the big winners at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival in the south of France on Sunday.
Coppola, of course, is the daughter of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, and after brief stints as an actress, as well as an Oscar win for Best Original Screenplay.
Clearly the big winner at Cannes this year was Coppola, not only because of the prestige the Best Director honor brings, but because of the extraordinary long gap between her and the last female to win the prize.