Though 56 years has elapsed since a woman received the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival, Sophia Coppola has managed to snag it!

The director was given the prestigious award for The Beguiled, a remake of a 1971 Clint Eastwood film centering around a Civil War soldier who gets taken into a girls’ boarding school in Virginia. The thriller stars Kirsten Dunst, Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, and Colin Farrell.

Yuliya Solntseva of Russia won in 1961 for The Story of the Flaming Years, and a man has received it every year thereafter, until now.

In a statement, Sophia said, “I was thrilled to get this movie made and it’s such an exciting start to be honored in Cannes.” She praised her “great team and cast,” and thanked Universal Studios and it’s specialty division, Focus Features, “for their support of women-driven films.”

Sophia is the daughter of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. She acted for a brief period before focusing on screenwriting and directing, and made her directorial debut in 1999 with The Virgin Suicides starring Kirsten Dunst. In 2004, Sophia was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for Lost in Translation, and won the award for Best Original Screenplay.