FILM 1289: LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
TRIVIA: Guido's wife, Dora, is
played by Roberto Benigni's
real-life wife, Nicoletta
Braschi.
Roberto Benigni says the
title comes from a quote by Leon Trotsky.
In exile in Mexico, knowing he was about to be killed by Joseph Stalin's assassins,
he saw his wife in the garden and wrote that, in spite of everything,
"life is beautiful".
Roberto Benigni's Oscar
for best actor marked only the second time that an actor had directed himself
in an Academy Award winning performance. The other was Laurence Olivier for Hamlet (1948).
Roberto Benigni's Oscar
win for Best Actor was the second time a performance completely in Italian had
been awarded. The previous winner was Sophia Loren for Two Women (1960).
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