Life is Beautiful Movie TrailerThe recognition was previously granted to Laurence Olivier for Hamlet in 1948. Because of this win, only two times in Oscar history that an actor had directed himself in an Academy Award winning performance. The first was given to Sophia Loren for the 1960 film La ciociara.
This is the second time that a performance completely in Italian was awarded an Oscar. Benigni won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film. Guido is played by Italian actor Roberto Benigni, who also directed and co-wrote film while Dora is portrayed by Nicoletta Braschi who is Benigni's wife in real-life. During their captivity, Guido employed his imagination by treating the Holocaust as an elaborate game with a tank as the grand prize for winning as an attempt to protect his family especially the virtue of his son from the horrors of the concentration camp. When the German forces invaded Italy, Guido and his family were confined in a Nazi concentration camp.
Life is Beautiful Movie SummaryHe then courts and marries Dora, a local school teacher and the two had a son. The film is about a Jewish Italian named Guido Orefice who has dreams of putting up a bookstore while working as a waiter. In North America, it went on to gross $57.24 million and internationally, it earned $171.60 million. However, the film became successful commercially. When the Italian film La vita e bella or Life is Beautiful opened in fifteen theaters in the United States on August 1999, it earned $63,934 for its opening weekend.
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