Italian actor and director Roberto Benigni was awarded the honorary Golden Lion of Saint Mark for his contribution to world cinema at the opening of the 78th Venice International Film Festival. TASS reported.
Selected parts of the artist's main achievements were presented to the audience of the ceremony. The very presentation of the award was greeted by the audience with a standing ovation.
Roberto Benigni, in accepting, stated, “My heart is full of joy and gratitude. It is an immense honor to receive such an important recognition of my work from the Venice International Film Festival.”
His film La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful, 1997) received the 1998 Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival, and in 1999, of the seven Oscar nominations the movie received, it won Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor (as well as Best Music, awarded to Nicola Piovani).
He has acted with the US directors such as Jim Jarmusch (Down by Law, 1986; Night on Earth, 1992; Coffee and Cigarettes, 2003), Blake Edwards (Son of the Pink Panther, 1993), and Woody Allen (To Rome with Love, 2012).
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