Name: Roberto Benigni
Date of Birth: 27 October 1952 After his movie _La vita ? bella (1997)_ (qv) received seven Academy Award nominations, he met the Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro and said, after shaking his hand: "Now I have the Oscar in my hand!".When the Ulivo party won the parliamentary elections, Benigni jumped on the stage and kissed 'Walter Veltroni' (qv), one of the party's candidates.His father Luigi Benigni (1918-2004), who worked as a farmer, carpenter and bricklayer, was a prisoner in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen bet... ween 1943 and 1945. Roberto used his stories as the basis for his film _La vita ? bella (1997)_ (qv).His mother Isolina Papini (1918-2004) worked as a fabric inspector.Sister: Bruna Benigni (textile worker), born 1945.Sister: Albertina Benigni (flower shop owner), born 1947.Sister: Anna Benigni (teacher's aide), born 1948.Attended a seminary in Florence, planning to become a priest.Left the seminary after two-thirds of Florence had been flooded by the Arno River (4 November 1966).Graduated from Instituto Tecnico Commericale Datini di Prato.He and 'Laurence Olivier' (qv) are the only two actors to have directed themselves in Oscar winning performances.The first actor to win a Best Actor Oscar for a non-English speaking role.He is the sixth actor in history to win the Oscar for Best Actor in a comedy after 'Clark Gable' (qv) in _It Happened One Night (1934)_ (qv), 'James Stewart (I)' (qv) in _The Philadelphia Story (1940)_ (qv), 'Lee Marvin' (qv) in _Cat Ballou (1965)_ (qv), 'Richard Dreyfuss' (qv) in _The Goodbye Girl (1977)_ (qv) and 'Jack Nicholson' (qv) in _As Good as It Gets (1997)_ (qv).Benigni met wife 'Nicoletta Braschi' (qv) on the set of _Tu mi turbi (1983)_ (qv).The first actor to win a Worst Actor Razzie for a non-English speaking role.He joins 'Sylvester Stallone' (qv), 'Prince (I)' (qv), 'Kevin Costner' (qv), 'William Shatner' (qv), and 'Tom Green (III)' (qv) as being the only actors to direct themselves in performances that would "win" them a Razzie Award for Worst Actor.When he "won" the 2003 Razzie Award for Worst Actor in _Pinocchio (2002)_ (qv), Razzies.com declared his win "By a Nose!", as he'd just barely beaten fellow nominee 'Steven Seagal' (qv) in the film _Half Past Dead (2002)_ (qv) by a mere few votes.'Federico Fellini' (qv) considered him a geniusMember of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 1990Has his look-alike puppet in the French show _"Les guignols de l'info" (1988)_ (qv).Was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (2 February 2007).Candidate to be awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature for his explanation and recitations of Dante's "Divina Commedia" (2007).Winning the Best Foreign Language Film category at the _The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998) (TV)_ (qv), he famously climbed on the back of the seat for his procession to the stage and applauded the audience. The following year, while announcing the nominees for the Best Actress Award, 'Billy Crystal' (qv) appeared behind him with a large net to restrain him.Also a respected poet, known for his poesia estemporanea, and singer-songwriter.After leading a crowd of thousand in Rome, protesting against 'Silvio Berlusconi' (qv)'s government's decision to cut state arts funding by 35 percent, he hijacked the opening credits of Italy's most watched news show, removed his shirt to drape it over the anchorman's shoulders and announced "Berlusconi had resigned!" the next day (15 September 2005).Was a supporter of the Italian Communist Party (PCI).Is one of five performers to win an Oscar playing a character that spoke mostly in a foreign language. The other are 'Sophia Loren' (qv), 'Robert De Niro' (qv), 'Marion Cotillard' (qv) and 'Benicio Del Toro' (qv).Has become one of the most radical opponents to 'Silvio Berlusconi' (qv)'s government and policy in Italy.Read more Roberto Benigni movies (actor)
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