Benigni, Shakespeare clean up at Oscar.
Published:
23 March 1999 y., Tuesday
Shakespeare in Love may have won the best picture award. Steven Spielberg may have won for best director. But it was Roberto Benigni who enlivened Sunday night_s Academy Awards (R) presentations, standing in triumph atop the seat backs at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles when his film, Life is Beautiful, won for best foreign-language film. Benigni launched into a rambling, virtually incomprehensible, yet utterly charming, acceptance speech when he was named best actor -- the first man ever to receive that award for a foreign-language film. He thanked the Oscar(R) crowd for their "hailstorm of kindness of gratitude" and his parents for giving him the greatest gift of all -- "poverty…
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.
The most popular articles
A growing number of websites are going back to the future. The new horizon: old-fashioned print
more »
Why the Beatles greatest hits album is topping the charts.
more »
Despite the expectations of publishers, a report by Forrester Research forecasts slow growth for both eBooks and eBook reading devices.
more »
The director and the basketball legend are among celebrities whose stars will be added next year to the more than 2,000 that line Hollywood Boulevard, it was announced Sunday.
more »
"AntiTrust," a new motion picture from MGM scheduled to hit theaters Jan. 12, 2001, explores the headlong, and often cutthroat race for supremacy in the world of digital convergence
more »
Madonna has finally tied the knot with her fiance Guy Ritchie
more »
Dublin's National Library paid $1.5 million for a signed, handwritten manuscript of the longest chapter of James Joyce's ``Ulysses.''
more »
Using the Internet as an artistic medium for filmmakers, the Sundance Institute unveiled Friday the lineup for its first Sundance Online Film Festival.
more »
Net-based firms use veteran actors to capitalize on the past
more »
Horror writer Stephen King is taking a break from his online serial novel, The Plant, so he can focus on other, perhaps more lucrative, projects.
more »