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Italian director Paolo Taviani, who with his late brother Vittorio formed the revered filmmaking duo that in 1977 won the Cannes Palme d’Or for “Padre Padrone,” has died at 92. Taviani died ...
Academy Award for Best Film Editing: Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes 1937 Basil Wrangell The Good Earth: Nominated Wrangell was an Italian born-American film editor. 1987 Gabriella Cristiani: The Last Emperor: Won 1991 Pietro Scalia: JFK: Won 1997 Good Will Hunting: Nominated Simona Paggi: Life Is Beautiful: Nominated (original title ...
At the 71st Academy Awards, Benigni won Best Actor for his role, with the film winning two more awards for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score and Best Foreign Language Film. [21] Benigni jumped on top of the seats as he made his way to the stage to accept his first award, and upon accepting his second, said, "This is a terrible mistake because ...
Death in Venice (Italian: Morte a Venezia) is a 1971 historical drama film directed and produced by Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti, and adapted by Visconti and Nicola Badalucco from the 1912 novella of the same name by German author Thomas Mann.
Bernardo Bertolucci OMRI (/ ˌ b ɜːr t ə ˈ l uː tʃ i / BUR-tə-LOO-chee; Italian: [berˈnardo bertoˈluttʃi]; 16 March 1941 – 26 November 2018) was an Italian film director and screenwriter with a career that spanned 50 years.
Together with fellow members of the Milanese film journal Cinema - Gianni Puccini, Antonio Pietrangeli and Giuseppe De Santis - Visconti wrote the screenplay for his first film as director: Ossessione (Obsession, 1943), one of the first examples of neorealist (involving real locations and regular people) movies and an unofficial adaptation of ...
Roberto Remigio Benigni Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI [1] (/ b ə ˈ n iː n i /; Italian: [roˈbɛrto beˈniɲɲi]; born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. He gained international recognition for writing, directing and starring in the Holocaust comedy drama film Life Is Beautiful (1997), for which he ...
Ennio: The Maestro (Italian: Ennio), also known as The Glance of Music, [3] is a 2021 documentary film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, celebrating the life and legacy of the Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who died on 6 July 2020. The film consists of interviews with directors, screenwriters, musicians, songwriters, critics and collaborators ...