"nomination should be an indication of extraordinary merit. If there are only eight pictures that truly earn that honor in a given year, we shouldn't feel an obligation to round out the number."" One point of contention with the award is the lack of consideration of non-English language films for Best Picture. Only nine foreign language films have been nominated in the category: ""Grand Illusion"" (French, 1938); ""Z"" (French, 1969); ""The Emigrants"" (Swedish, 1972); ""Cries and Whispers"" (Swedish, 1973); """" (Italian/Spanish, 1995); ""Life Is Beautiful"" (Italian, 1998); ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" (Mandarin Chinese, 2000); ""Letters from Iwo Jima"" (Japanese, 2006,"
"level since the end of the 1980s. Probably the most noted film of the period is ""Nuovo Cinema Paradiso"", for which Giuseppe Tornatore won a 1989 Oscar (awarded in 1990) for Best Foreign Language Film. This award was followed when Gabriele Salvatores's ""Mediterraneo"" won the same prize for 1991. """" (1994), directed by and starring Massimo Troisi, received five nominations at the Academy Awards, and won for Best Original Score. Another exploit was in 1998 when Roberto Benigni won three oscars for his movie ""Life Is Beautiful"" (""La vita è bella)"" (Best Actor, Best Foreign Film, Best Music). In 2001"
"The Phantom of the Opera (1998 film) The Phantom of the Opera () is a 1998 Italian horror film directed by Dario Argento, adapted from the novel ""Le Fantôme de l'Opéra"" by Gaston Leroux. However, there are many differences between the book and the film (the biggest being that the Phantom is not disfigured). In Paris 1877 a pack of rats save an abandoned baby from a basket that was flowing along a river. They raise him in the underground of the Opéra de Paris. This child becomes the Phantom of the Opera, a misanthrope who kills anyone who ventures"
"and featured the ""Air des clochettes"" from the opera ""Lakmé"" by Léo Delibes and the overture from Charles Gounod's ""Faust"". The Phantom of the Opera (1998 film) The Phantom of the Opera () is a 1998 Italian horror film directed by Dario Argento, adapted from the novel ""Le Fantôme de l'Opéra"" by Gaston Leroux. However, there are many differences between the book and the film (the biggest being that the Phantom is not disfigured). In Paris 1877 a pack of rats save an abandoned baby from a basket that was flowing along a river. They raise him in the underground"
"body, panting vigorously. Dogman (film) Dogman is a 2018 Italian drama film directed by Matteo Garrone. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes, Marcello Fonte won the award for Best Actor. It was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Marcello is an affable dog groomer living in the deprived Magliana neighborhood in the outskirts of Rome. He has a happy life. He loves his work and his business (called 'Dogman') is thriving. He has a"
"Cinema Paradiso Cinema Paradiso (, , ""New Paradise Cinema"") is a 1988 Italian drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. The film stars Jacques Perrin, Philippe Noiret, Leopoldo Trieste, Marco Leonardi, Agnese Nano and Salvatore Cascio, and was produced by Franco Cristaldi and Giovanna Romagnoli, while the music score was composed by Ennio Morricone along with his son, Andrea. It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards. In Rome, in the 1980s, famous Italian film director Salvatore Di Vita returns home late one evening, where his girlfriend sleepily tells him that his"
"Dogman (film) Dogman is a 2018 Italian drama film directed by Matteo Garrone. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes, Marcello Fonte won the award for Best Actor. It was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Marcello is an affable dog groomer living in the deprived Magliana neighborhood in the outskirts of Rome. He has a happy life. He loves his work and his business (called 'Dogman') is thriving. He has a doting daughter who"
"My Best Friend's Wife My Best Friend's Wife () is a 1998 Italian comedy film written and directed by Vincenzo Salemme. It marked the directorial film debut of Salemme, and enjoyed a considerable commercial success. Roberto Cordova is a Neapolitan middle-aged doctor who has to go to America for a major surgery. In fact the patient is himself, and since he is afraid of dying, Roberto asks his friend Michele to let him have a loving relationship with the girl Frida, who has always loved. Michele in his heart loves Frida, however agrees. The operation succeeds well and Roberto survives;"
"Bye Bye Baby (film) Bye Bye Baby is a 1988 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Enrico Oldoini. The film starred Brigitte Nielsen and Carol Alt. It is one of the few films to feature five-pin billiards on-screen in any detail. A couple from Milan, Sandra and Paolo, engage in a series of extramarital affairs, reconciliations, escapades, and eventual divorce, beginning during a vacation to Mauritius. Sandra becomes involved with a handsome doctor, Marcello, while Paolo falls for Lisa, a professional billiards player. Brigitte Nielsen was nominated for a Golden Raspberry (""Razzie"") for Worst Actress at the 10th Golden Raspberry"
"the priceless coins from the robbery. Viola Kisses Everybody Viola Kisses Everybody (""Viola bacia tutti"") is a 1998 Italian comedy film directed by Giovanni Veronesi. Leonardo Pieraccioni makes a cameo role in the film as a tourist who asks Massimo Ceccherini information about a beach. Three friends: Max (Massimo Ceccherini), Samuele (Valerio Mastandrea) and Nicola (Rocco Papaleo) go on holiday in their caravan. During the trip, Viola (Asia Argento), who has just robbed a bank, accosts the campers and takes them hostage. Initially the three are frightened, but gradually gain confidence with the girl and they become friends. Finally they"
"""Barcarolle"" by Jacques Offenbach. The soundtrack album won the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score and was nominated for a Grammy Award: ""Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media"", but lost to the score of ""A Bug's Life"". Life Is Beautiful Life Is Beautiful ( ) is a 1997 Italian comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami. Benigni plays Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian bookshop owner, who employs his fertile imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp."
"but he discovers that the relationship with Frida is born a child... My Best Friend's Wife My Best Friend's Wife () is a 1998 Italian comedy film written and directed by Vincenzo Salemme. It marked the directorial film debut of Salemme, and enjoyed a considerable commercial success. Roberto Cordova is a Neapolitan middle-aged doctor who has to go to America for a major surgery. In fact the patient is himself, and since he is afraid of dying, Roberto asks his friend Michele to let him have a loving relationship with the girl Frida, who has always loved. Michele in his"
"neorealism. It received an Academy Honorary Award in 1950 and, just four years after its release, was deemed the greatest film of all time by ""Sight & Sound"" magazine's poll of filmmakers and critics; fifty years later the same poll ranked it sixth among the greatest-ever films. It is also one of the top ten among the British Film Institute's list of films you should see by the age of 14. In the post-World War II Val Melaina neighbourhood of Rome, Antonio Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani) is desperate for work to support his wife Maria (Lianella Carell), his son Bruno (Enzo"
"in 1997 with the experimental drama ""Moonspins Between Land and Sea"". The film was entereded into the main competition at the 54th Venice International Film Festival, winning the Isvema Award and the Pasinetti Award for best film. The film also won the Tiger Award at the 1998 International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Grolla d'oro for best film. His 2015 film ""Per amor vostro"" was screened in the main competition section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival and for her performance in the film Valeria Golino won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. Giuseppe M. Gaudino Giuseppe Mario Gaudino"
"good life. Macaroni (film) Macaroni () is a 1985 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Ettore Scola. The film was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 58th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Jack Lemmon plays a successful, physically exhausted, pill-popping American businessman, going through a divorce, who visits Naples, Italy. He spends several days there as a guest of a local business acquaintance, played by Marcello Mastroianni, who has a more laid-back philosophy and is devoted to his large family. In the process, Lemmon's character learns how to relax and"
"of using the subject matter for comedic purposes. It won the Grand Prix at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, nine David di Donatello Awards, including Best Film, in Italy, and three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Benigni. In 1939 in the Kingdom of Italy, Guido Orefice is a young Jewish man who arrives to work in the city where his uncle Eliseo operates a restaurant. Guido is comical and sharp and falls in love with a girl named Dora. Later, he sees her again in the city where she is a teacher and set to be engaged to a"
"Macaroni (film) Macaroni () is a 1985 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Ettore Scola. The film was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 58th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Jack Lemmon plays a successful, physically exhausted, pill-popping American businessman, going through a divorce, who visits Naples, Italy. He spends several days there as a guest of a local business acquaintance, played by Marcello Mastroianni, who has a more laid-back philosophy and is devoted to his large family. In the process, Lemmon's character learns how to relax and live the"
"Giorgio Cantarini Giorgio Cantarini (born 12 April 1992) is an Italian actor who, to date, has appeared in two Academy Award winning films: 1997's ""Life Is Beautiful"" () and 2000's ""Gladiator"". Raised in Orvieto, Italy, Giorgio Cantarini is born to Giuseppe Cantarini and Giovanna Martini. The couple separated after Giorgio's fifth birthday. His family nickname is ""Gio"". Cantarini made his film debut in the 1997 Roberto Benigni directed comedy-drama ""Life is Beautiful"", playing Benigni's four-year-old son 'Giosuè Orefice', who is sent with his Jewish-Italian father to a German concentration camp during World War II. The film won three Academy Awards."
"15, 1998. The film was shown at various film festivals, including: the Fribourg International Film Festival, Switzerland; the Toulouse Latin America Film Festival, France; the Montevideo Film Festival, Uruguay; the Gramado Film Festival, Brazil; and the Torino International Festival of Young Cinema, Turin, Italy. In the United States it was not released as a feature film, but rather it was released in DVD format on December 27, 2005. Wins Nominations Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (), is a 1998 Argentine drama film, co-directed and co-written by Israel Adrián Caetano and Bruno Stagnaro. It's also known as: Pizza,"
"Nicola Piovani Nicola Piovani (born 26 May 1946) is an Italian light-classical musician, theater and film score composer, and winner of the 1998 Best Original Dramatic Score Oscar for the score of the Roberto Benigni film ""La Vita è bella"", better known to English-speaking audiences as ""Life Is Beautiful"". After high school, Piovani enrolled at the Sapienza University of Rome, receiving his degree in piano from the Verdi Conservatory in Milan in 1967, and later studied orchestration under the Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis. Among his more popular works is the score for the Federico Fellini film ""Intervista"", his second of"
"himself as ""one who does not believe and who regrets this"". His brother, Francesco Tornatore, is a producer. Giuseppe Tornatore Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is considered as one of the directors who brought critical acclaim back to Italian cinema. In a career spanning over 30 years he is best known for directing and writing drama films such as ""Everybody's Fine"", ""The Legend of 1900"", ""Malèna"", ""Baarìa"" and ""The Best Offer"". Probably his most noted film is ""Nuovo Cinema Paradiso"", for which Tornatore won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language"
"Cry"" (1984), with Massimo Troisi and Roberto Benigni; ""It's Happening Tomorrow"" (1988); ""Viola bacia tutti"" (1997) with Asia Argento; ""The Talented Mr. Ripley"" with Matt Damon and Jude Law; ""Emma sono io"" (2002); Roberto Benigni's ""Pinocchio""; ""Manuale d'amore 3"" (2011) with Robert De Niro and Monica Bellucci; Swiss movie ""Summer Games"", and some Leonardo Pieraccioni's movies. Famous Italian actress Elsa Martinelli and actor Luigi Pistilli were both born in Grosseto. Actress Laura Morante was born in Santa Fiora, and director Umberto Lenzi in Massa Marittima, both in the province of Grosseto. ""Schiaccia alla pala"" (oven-baked bread with oil) and ""Schiaccia"
"winter. The small Berardo is shocked by the rape of his mother by a fascist officer, and is forced to go to Rome, meditating revenge. Ten years later Berardo in fact, now that he has become large, goes back from Rome in Abruzzo, and discovers that the country is still victim of abuse of fascism. The young communist tries to attack squadrons, but is murdered. Fontamara (film) Fontamara is a 1980 Italian film, directed by Carlo Lizzani based on the novel of the same name by Ignazio Silone. It stars Michele Placido in the role of Berardo Viola and Antonella"
"""Dear Jesse""<br> 3. ""Theme: Murder"" 1. Taste of Cherry (""Ta'm e guilass"") • Iran/France<br> 2. ""The Celebration"" (""Festen"") • Denmark<br> 3. ""Life Is Beautiful"" (""La vita è bella"") • Italy Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1998 The 19th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards honored the best films of 1998. The awards were given on 13 December 1998. 1. Out of Sight<br> 2. ""The General""<br> 3. ""Saving Private Ryan"" 1. Brendan Gleeson – ""The General"" and ""I Went Down""<br> 2. George Clooney – ""Out of Sight""<br> 3. John Hurt – ""Love and Death on Long Island"" 1. Samantha Morton"
"Il Divo (film) Il Divo (, ""The Celebrity"" or more literally ""The Divine"", from Latin ""divus,"" god) is a 2008 Italian biographical drama film directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It is based on the figure of former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. It competed at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008, where it was awarded the Jury Prize. The film also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Makeup at the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010. As the film opens, Giulio Andreotti gives an inner monologue observing how he has managed to"
"many as one of the best film scores ever done. However, he is reported to believe that ""Too many film scores make a composer a hack, but in the theatre music is above all craftsmanship"". Accordingly, he continues to work in musical theatre, and also composes concert and chamber music. Nicola Piovani Nicola Piovani (born 26 May 1946) is an Italian light-classical musician, theater and film score composer, and winner of the 1998 Best Original Dramatic Score Oscar for the score of the Roberto Benigni film ""La Vita è bella"", better known to English-speaking audiences as ""Life Is Beautiful"". After"
"Sud (film) Sud, also known as South, is a 1993 Italian drama film directed by Gabriele Salvatores. The movie won the Best Score award and was nominated for Best Original Story at the 1994 Nastro d'Argento ceremony. It also won the Best Sound award and was nominated for Best Score at the 1994 David di Donatello. For his performance, Silvio Orlando was nominated for the 1994 David di Donatello for Best Actor. During a warm springy Sunday afternoon in a small town of South Italy, the opening of the polling place is disrupted by three Italian citizens and one Eritrean,"
"Donatello (for best score and best new director) and three Nastro d'Argento (best score, best new director and best supporting role, an award given to the entire female cast). To Die for Tano Tano da morire (internationally released as To Die for Tano) is a 1997 Italian musical comedy film written and directed by Roberta Torre. It is loosely inspired by actual life events of Tano Guarrasi, a butcher and a jealous brother of four sisters who was also a little mafia boss and who was killed in his shop in September 1990. It entered the 54th Venice International Film"
"the Oscars. Garrone could not obtain that footage from the Academy and was forced to buy footage of Johansson at the Venice Film Festival in 2006 - even though press reports indicate hers was a vintage gown. Gomorrah (film) Gomorrah () is a 2008 Neapolitan-language Italian film directed by Matteo Garrone, based on the book by Roberto Saviano, who also collaborated in the screenplay. It deals with the Casalesi clan, a crime syndicate within the Camorra — a traditional criminal organization based in Naples and Caserta, in the southern Italian region of Campania. The film opens with the murder of"
"Vincenzo has fled. Assunta finds herself intimidated by the different culture, but resolutely travels to London in search of Vincenzo in order to kill him. After an accident, Assunta is hospitalized; she meets a cute patient, understanding and sentimental, who advises her to forget about Vincenzo, and to devote herself to her life. She follows this advice, and soon she creates for herself a new and wonderful life in England. The Girl with the Pistol The Girl with the Pistol () is a 1968 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best"
"2005 Cantarini competed in ""Ballando con le Stelle"", the Italian reality television version of the series ""Dancing With The Stars"". Cantarini currently resides in Viterbo, Italy with his mother and brother Lorenzo. Giorgio Cantarini Giorgio Cantarini (born 12 April 1992) is an Italian actor who, to date, has appeared in two Academy Award winning films: 1997's ""Life Is Beautiful"" () and 2000's ""Gladiator"". Raised in Orvieto, Italy, Giorgio Cantarini is born to Giuseppe Cantarini and Giovanna Martini. The couple separated after Giorgio's fifth birthday. His family nickname is ""Gio"". Cantarini made his film debut in the 1997 Roberto Benigni directed"
"Carlo in Naples, then Rossini decides to move to Paris, where he is hailed as a genius. Rossini! Rossini! Rossini! Rossini! is a 1991 Italian biographical film written and directed by Mario Monicelli. It depicts real life events of composer Gioachino Rossini. Monicelli replaced Robert Altman that, due to differences with the production, gave up. The film won the David di Donatello for Best Costumes. In 1868 the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini is already famous all over the country. However, his last opera ""The Barber of Seville"" is not understood and even booed by the audience at La Scala for"
"things up. Giulia, now out of jail and in desperate need of love, embraces Sara, but is not ready to open up completely. The film ends with Matteo's son, Andrea, visiting Norway, specifically North Cape, which is where his father and Nicola ventured to go at the beginning of the movie, but never completed their journey. The Best of Youth The Best of Youth (), is a 2003 Italian film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. Originally planned as a four-part mini-series, it was presented at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Un Certain Regard award. It was"