WEEK 4.3 KNOWING ROBERTO BENIGNI
Roberto Benigni is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter, director and producer best known for his 1997 Oscar winning film La Vita e Bella (Life is Beautiful). He also an improvisatory poet (poesia estemporanea is a form of art popularly followed and practiced in Tuscany), appreciated for his explanation and recitations of Dante's Divina Commedia from memory.
Benigni was born on 27th October 1952, in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy. On 1976, he released his first film debut with Berlingeur, ti voglio bene (Berlingeur, I Love You). In 1982, a television monologue Tu Mi Murbi (You Disturb Me) was Benigni's assault as a director which criticized Pope John Paul II. 1997's La Vita e Bella (Life is Beautiful) was his most succesful film which he wrote, directed and played in. He won a Best Foreign Language Film Award and received Academy Award for Best Actor for the film.
Honors[edit]
In 1999, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him.[13]
Honorary degrees[edit]
In addition to numerous film awards, Benigni has garnered honorary degrees from universities worldwide:
- 1999 – Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel.
- 2002 – Honorary Doctorate in Letters from the University of Bologna, Italy.
- 2003 – Honorary Degree in Psychology from the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
- 2007 – Honorary Doctorate in Letters from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
- 2007 – Honorary Degree in Modern Philology from the University of Florence, Italy.
- 2008 – Honorary Doctorate in Letters from the University of Malta.
- 2008 – Honorary Degree in Communication Arts from the Touro University Rome, Zagarolo, Italy.
- 2012 – Honorary Degree in Modern Philology from the University of Calabria, Italy.
- 2012 – Honorary Doctorate in Letters from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
- 2015 – Honorary Doctorate in Laws from the University of Toronto, Canada.[14]
Influence[edit]
The Europe List, the largest survey on European culture, established that the top three films in European culture are
- Benigni's Life is Beautiful[15]
- Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others[15]
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie[15]
Filmography (director)[edit]
| Year | Film | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | You Upset Me (Tu mi turbi) | also starred |
| 1984 | L'addio a Enrico Berlinguer | documentary film |
| 1985 | Nothing Left To Do But Cry (Non ci resta che piangere) | also starred |
| 1988 | The Little Devil (Il piccolo diavolo) | also starred |
| 1991 | Johnny Toothpick (Johnny Stecchino) | also starred |
| 1994 | The Monster (Il mostro) | also starred |
| 1997 | Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) | also starred |
| 2002 | Pinocchio | also starred |
| 2005 | The Tiger and the Snow (La tigre e la neve) | also starred |
Filmography[edit]
Books[edit]
- E l'alluce fu... monologhi e gags (1996)
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Benigni
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