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Maestro Morricone Wins Best Original Score

Natasha Lardera

The 88th Academy Awards will be remembered in Italy as the year that Maestro Morricone won the coveted statuette for Best Original Score for Quentin Tarantino's film The Hateful...

Italy Chose "Non Essere Cattivo" for Oscar Candidate

Christina Boalt

This past week, Italy chose "Non Essere Cattivo" to be their Academy Award candidate to be submitted for the title of Best Foreign Language Film award this upcoming award season....

Falling in Love with NYC’s Italian American Culture

Francine Segan

Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning John Patrick Shanley is best known for his riveting Broadway play Doubt, which he has since rewritten as a screen-play and a movie, as well as...

Fratelli Taviani Italian Cinema at its Best

Maria Rita Latto

Interview with the renowned brother-directors. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s new release Caesar Must Die has already won the Golden Bear award for best movie at the Berlin Film...

Oscar Nominations 2012: Italian Creativity is Still in the Game

Natasha Lardera

Despite the elimination from the Foreign Film Category, Italy is represented at the Academy Awards in two important categories: Art Direction for Martin Scorsese's Hugo and Short...

Italy Excluded from the Foreign Language Oscar Race

Natasha Lardera

Emanuele Crialese' story of immigration, Terraferma, is not a finalist in the selection of films to be presented in the Best Foreign Film category at the 84th edition of the...

The Wrestler: Why This Film Appeals to Some Italian-Americans

Marc Edward DiPaolo

While not as great as people say, Darren Aronofsky's latest film has a lot in it that speaks to Italian-Americans. At least, some my age from NY and NJ, that is.

A Oscar non piace Gomorra

George De Stefano

The Academy Awards snub Italy's acclaimed mob drama

Benigni the Poet Makes Life Even More Beautiful

Grace Russo Bullaro *

I have translated this interview into idiomatic, fluent English in order to convey Benigni's natural style in his native language...

Italy Issues Anna Magnani Stamp

R. C.

To commemorate the greatly celebrated actress Anna Magnani, Italy will release a postal stamp on March 7, 2008 which would have been the 100th birthday of the legendary Roman

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