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Only eight other films have managed the feat, most recently Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in 2000 and 1998's Life Is Beautiful. Eastwood also shot Letters from the Japanese point of view as a companion to last October's Flags of Our Fathers, a back-to-back accomplishment few in the business would bother to attempt or could muster. (National Post)
First Review of Controversial Dakota Fanning Movie 'Hounddog' Jan 24, 2007
With a long history at Miramax, Harvey Weinstein is famous for making foreign films into hits, from Cinema Paradiso and Kolya to Life is Beautiful. His Days of Glory was nominated for an Oscar Tuesday. (FOX News)
This year's Oscar picks have a foreign accent Jan 24, 2007
In addition, Miller said, Oscar voters were struck by the critical success of "Life Is Beautiful," the Italian film that was a 1988 Oscar nominee. And he said studios couldn't ignore the commercial success of Mel Gibson's 2004 film "The Passion of the Christ," which was subtitled from Aramaic. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Oscar nominations Jan 24, 2007
Better luck next time: Other notables whose names had been floated but failed to convert the buzz: Catherine O'Hara, as an actress whose indie role becomes the subject of Oscar talk in "For Your Consideration"; Annette Bening, who delivered an excellent performance in the otherwise excruciating "Running With Scissors"; Beyonce Knowles as the Diana Ross surrogate in Dreamgirls"; Adam Beach, heartbreaking as Marine Ira Hayes in "Flags of Our Fathers"; and Brad Pitt in "Babel," as an American whose... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Betty star 'so natural' Jan 21, 2007
PASADENA, California -- Life is beautiful for Ugly Betty. This season's breakout star, America Ferrera, and her rookie hit, Ugly Betty (airing tonight at 9 on Citytv, Cable 7), were both big winners Monday night at the Golden Globes. (Edmonton Sun)
Pixar's Lasseter revs up for Globes Jan 13, 2007
But occasionally a great one like "Life Is Beautiful" will get nominated. That is the way people should view it. (Yahoo News -- Golden Globe Awards)
Remember When? Jan 10, 2007
He loved live and always said "Life is beautiful." He was great to be around and was always there, helpful and entertaining. He will be sadly missed, as he touched all who knew him. (Downingtown Ledger, PA)
Hitler the buffoon Jan 5, 2007
"The ultimate way to shrink a myth is to make it laughable. Germany retains laws against giving a Nazi salute or wear a swastika, except for artistic purposes, and a decade ago a film like Mein Fuhrer would have been unacceptable. History professor Paul Nolte, of Berlin's Free University, explains that until recently Germans were focused on "a very serious appraisal of Nazism" and the proper commemoration of its victims. In an interview published in , Levy credits the 1997 Oscar-winning film... (ABC Online)
Jewish director breaks taboos with Hitler comedy Jan 2, 2007
He believes Life is Beautiful, the 1997 comedy by Roberto Benigni, broke a taboo. "I think it is important that we create new pictures of our own, also of the Holocaust or Nazism, and not always work off the old, realistic pictures, because I think that just makes us lazy and tired, and we don't learn anything from it," said Levy. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
'Fuehrer' Tells Hitler Story With Humor Jan 2, 2007
Levy, 49, points to Italian Roberto Benigni's Oscar-winning "Life is Beautiful" as a taboo-breaking forerunner -- about a father who uses desperate and hilarious means to shield his son from the horrors of a Nazi death camp and convince him it is all an elaborate game. "I think it is important that we create new pictures of our own, also of the Holocaust or Nazism, and not always work off the old, realistic pictures, because I think that just makes us lazy and tired, and we don't learn anything... (Sun-Sentinel.com)
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