MoMA Film Benefit
Honoring
Sofia Coppola
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
7:00 p.m. Cocktails
8:00 p.m. Dinner
Join us at The Museum of Modern Art for the 2025 MoMA Film Benefit, as we honor Academy Award–winning director and cultural icon Sofia Coppola.
Now in its 17th year, the MoMA Film Benefit raises money for the acquisition and preservation of key film works, and provides funding to support the Museum’s groundbreaking film exhibitions.
In celebration of this cause, the evening honors an individual for their significant impact on the film industry. Sofia Coppola has forged a unique path in cinema, characterized by quiet elegance, emotional precision, and a distinctive aesthetic vision. Sofia’s contributions as a director, screenwriter, producer, and cultural tastemaker have left an indelible mark on modern cinema.
The evening, presented together with CHANEL, will feature a red carpet, cocktails, a seated dinner, and an award program highlighting Sofia Coppola’s remarkable career.
All proceeds from the evening benefit the Debra and Leon Black Family Film Center of The Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Film.
For more information, please contact the Department of Special Programming and Events at [email protected].
About the Department of Film
The Department of Film organizes over 900 public screenings annually, welcoming artists to present their work in Modern Mondays, highlighting the best new films from around the world in The Contenders, and presenting the best new film restorations in To Save and Project. MoMA has co-presented New Directors/New Films with Film at Lincoln Center for over 50 years, helping to launch the careers of some of the best filmmakers working today. Recent monographic retrospectives include Johnnie To: Chaos and Order, Chantal Akerman: The Long View, and João César Monteiro.
From Citizen Kane to Casablanca to Rashomon, the vastness of MoMA’s film collection includes the original negatives of the Biograph Company collection, including Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913), the first American feature with an all-Black cast (starring the popular musical theater performer Bert Williams). Through our commitment to film preservation, we have restored works by some of the most revered filmmakers from around the world, including Ernst Lubitsch, Melvin Van Peebles, John Ford, Leo McCarey, Stephanie Rothman, and many others.
Film at MoMA is made possible by CHANEL.