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Venice to Honor Roberto Benigni With Golden Lion for Career Achievement

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Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Venice Film Festival will honor Oscar-winning Italian actor/director Roberto Benigni with its 2021 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.Benigni, whose “Life Is Beautiful” – which he co-wrote, directed and starred in – won three Oscars in 1999, including best actor, recently returned to the big screen playing Geppetto in Matteo Garrone’s live-action adaptation of “Pinocchio.”“Pinocchio,” which was a box office champ in Italy in 2019, has been recently released in the U.S.

by Roadside Attractions and is nominated for 2021 Oscars in the best costume design and makeup and hairstyling categories.Benigni’s last directorial effort is “The Tiger and the Snow,” in 2005, in which he also starred.

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