Life Is Beautiful (Italian: La vita è bella) is a 1997Italian film which tells the tragic-comic story of aJewish Italian, Guido Orefice (played by Roberto Benigni, who also directed and co-wrote the film), who courts and marries a woman and later must employ his fertile imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp. Part of the film came from Benigni's own family history; before his birth Roberto's father had survived three years of internment at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Life is Beautiful was shown at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, and went on to win the Grand Prize.[1] At the 71st Academy Awards, the film won awards for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score, and Best Foreign Language Film, with Benigni winning Best Actor for his role. The film also received Academy Award nominations forDirecting, Film Editing, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Picture.
At the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, Benigni won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the film won both the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score and the Academy Award for Best Foreign
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