Chappaqua Library: Movies by Women: Movie Buff, Carol Durst-Wertheim presents Movies Directed by Women. Here she screens Sophia Coppola’s 2003 Romantic Comedy, Lost in Translation, starring Bill Murray, as aging actor Bob Harris, who befriends college graduate Charlotte Scarlet Johansson in a Tokyo hotel.
Lost in Translation was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Bill Murray, and Best Director for Coppola; Coppola won for Best Original Screenplay. Murray and Johansson each won a BAFTA award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Leading Role respectively. The film grossed $119 million on a budget of $4 million.
Chappaqua Library: Movies by Women