Sofia Coppola acted in a drama film based on a novel.
In 2003 , she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the comedy-drama Lost in Translation , and became the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director.
Based on the 1993 best selling debut novel of the same name by American author Jeffrey Eugenides , the film tells of the brief lives of five teenage sisters in a middle class suburb near the outskirts of Detroit during the 1970s.
It was her second feature film after The Virgin Suicides -LRB- 1999 -RRB-.
