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Roberto Benigni
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Roberto Benigni is an Italian film director, screenwriter, comedian, and street artist. Born on October 27, 1952, in Castiglion Fiorentino, he began his professional work period in 1972. His notable works include *Nothing Left to Do But Cry*, *The Monster*, and *Life is Beautiful*. He is married to Nicoletta Braschi and is a relative of Gianluigi Braschi.
Benigni has received several awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, and the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. He has also been nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Writing, Original Screenplay, as well as the European Film Award for Best Film.
As a singer-songwriter, he has released music on record labels such as Philips Records, Deutsche Grammophon, and Mercury Records. His musical style is often tagged with terms like Italian, folk, cabaret, and Demenziale.
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Person · Open Library
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- 1952
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- Io un po' Pinocchio
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level
- Mi Dante
- Mi Dante
- Lettera a Dante
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Acting · Manciano La Misericordia, Castiglion Fiorentino, Arezzo, Italy
Roberto Benigni, (born October 27, 1952, Misericordia, Arezzo, Italy), Italian actor and director known for his comedic work, most notably La vita è bella (1997; Life Is Beautiful), for which he won an Academy Award for best actor. Benigni was the son of a poor tenant farmer who had worked in a German forced-labour camp during World War II. The elder Benigni used humour in retelling his…
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- The Singing Priest — Dr. John2025
- The Dream2025
- Pietro - A Man in the Wind2025
- Sanremo 2023. Tra Palco e realtà — Self2023
- Francesco - The Canticle — Self - Host2022
- I magnifici 4 della risata2022
- We Are Cinema — Self (archive footage)2021
- Alida Valli: In Her Own Words — Self2021
- Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me — Self2020
- Untouchable — Self (archive footage)2019
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Roberto Benigni (born October 27, 1952) is an Oscar-winning Italian film and television actor, writer and director. Benigni is probably best known for his 1997 tragicomedy Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella), filmed in Cortona and Arezzo, also written by Cerami. The film is about an Italian Jewish man who tries to protect his son during his internment at a Nazi concentration camp, by telling him that the Holocaust is an elaborate game and he must adhere very carefully to the rules to win. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Roberto+Benigni">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,941x
- Quantum Mechanical Continuum Solvation Models
· 2005 · cited 16,224x
- SegNet: A Deep Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Image Segmentation
· 2017 · cited 16,092x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
- Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks
· 2017 · cited 12,178x
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Roberto
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Castiglion Fiorentino
- Spouse
- Nicoletta Braschi
- Occupation
- stage actor
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Native language
- Italian
- Notable work
- Life is Beautiful
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Mercury Records
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- Roberto Benigni-5274.jpg
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- Roberto Benigni
- date of birth
- 1952-10-27
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- Roberto Benigni
- nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Actor
- name in native language
- Roberto Benigni
- start of work period
- 1972-00-00
- birth name
- Roberto Remigio Benigni
- relative
- Gianluigi Braschi
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Roberto Benigni
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Encyclopedic overview
Roberto Remigio Benigni (/bəˈniːnjiː/ bə-NEE-nyee, Italian: [roˈbɛrto beˈniɲɲi]; born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film director. He gained international recognition for writing, directing, and starring in the Holocaust comedy drama film Life Is Beautiful (1997), for which he received the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best International Feature Film. Benigni was the first actor to win the Best Actor Academy Award for a non-English language performance.
Benigni made his acting debut in 1977's Berlinguer, I Love You, which he also wrote, and which was directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci. Benigni's directorial debut was the 1983 anthology film Tu mi turbi, which was also the acting debut of his wife, Nicoletta Braschi. He continued directing and also starring in the comedic films Nothing Left to Do But Cry (1984), The Little Devil (1988), Johnny Stecchino (1991), The Monster (1994), the award-winning film Life Is Beautiful (1997), Pinocchio (2002, as the title character), and The Tiger and the Snow (2005).
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