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Date of Birth: Bernardo Bertolucci16 March 1940Brother of Giuseppe Bertolucci, cousin of Giovanni Bertolucci. Son of poet Attilio Bertolucci and Ninetta Giovanardi. Born at 7:25pm-CET Homage at the 48th Donostia-San Sebasti?n Film Festival. [2000] Was voted the 44th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 121-127. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988. The young Bertolucci took after his father, a Roman poet and film critic, and became a celebrated published poet by the age of 20. He gave up poetry for the cinema after working as an assistant to Pier Paolo Pasolini on the movie Accattone (1961). ... President of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990 In July of 1990, along with Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra and Marcello Mastroianni, he wrote: "With the death of Sergei Parajanov cinema lost one of its wizards.". Supported the Italian Communist Party (PCI). Was a close friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini. He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture. When the Italian Bertolucci was Oscar-nominated as Best Director for The Last Emperor (1987) (and won), his Best Director fellow nominees were all non-Americans: Adrian Lyne and John Boorman (UK), Lasse Hallström (Sweden) and Norman Jewison (Canada) making that particular instance unique in Oscar history. [11 April 1988] Read more At this site you can watch Bernardo Bertolucci movies online for free.
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