Director Sophia Coppola arriving at the 2011 National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street on January 11, 2011 in New York City. *** ***
Filmmaker Sofia Coppola is set to marry Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars in the Italian hometown of her grand-grandfather on Saturday.
According to
The Associated Press, Coppola and Mars will marry in Bernalda, in Italy's Basilicata region.
The couple will exchange vows in a palazzo that the bride’s famous father, Francis Ford Coppola, renovated and will turn into a luxury boutique hotel.
The Hollywood Reporter writes that this will be the second marriage for Coppola, who won an Academy Award for
Lost in Translation. She was previously married to fellow director Spike Jonze.
Coppola took home the top Golden Lion prize at the Venice film festival last year for directing the film
Somewhere.
Mars is the father of Coppola’s two young children.