Sofia Coppola is the second woman to win best director at Cannes in 71 years
Sofia Coppola won the award for best director at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday for her new film, The Beguiled, a remake of the 1971 Clint Eastwood film of the same name.
This makes her the second woman in the festival’s 71-year history to take home that prize. The last was Russian director Yuliya Solntseva in 1961, who won for her dramatic retelling of grassroots resistance to the Nazi movement in the Soviet Union, Chronicle of Flaming Years.
In her acceptance speech, Coppola reportedly thanked Jane Campion, the Top of the Lake creator and Bright Star director who is still the only woman in the festival’s history to win the Palme d’Or. She won in 1993 for The Piano, which also netted her an Academy Award for Best Original…
