Sofia Coppola, director of upcoming drama-thriller ‘The Beguiled’ bagged the Best Director award at the 73rd annual Cannes Film Festival, the only second female director in the festival’s 70-year history to win the award. 

The only other female director to win that award is Russian director Yuliya Ippolitovna Solntseva who won the award in 196 for her World War II film “The Story of the Flaming Years”. 

"I was thrilled to get this movie made and it's such an exciting start to be honoured in Cannes. I'm thankful to my great team and incredible cast and to Focus and Universal for their support of women's voices in film," said Sofia Coppola.

Coppola has directed other films like The Virgin Suicides, Lost In Translation, and Marie Antoinette.



 
The Beguiled stars Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell, and is set to release InCinemas 27 July 2017!