Oscar winning filmmaker Sofia Coppola has married Thomas Mars in Italy. Mars is the frontman for the French rock band Phoenix and Sofia has followed in the footsteps of her famous father, Francis Ford Coppola. Sofia is most famous for directing Lost in Translation for which she won an Academy Award for original screenplay, she was the third woman ever nominated for a directing Oscar.
As reported by Radar online, the ceremony took place in front of 80 guests at the family villa in Bernalda, in the South of Italy. The town was home to Francis’s grandfather, Agostino, before he immigrated to the United States at the turn of the last century.
Johnny Depp and George Lucas were amongst the guests. The ceremony was performed by Mayor Leonardo Chiruzzi , he said afterwards;
“Everything went well,” “It was simple, calm, in the garden.”
The couple has been together many years and they have two young daughters together; Romy, who is four and little one year old Cosima.
