Bernardo Bertolucci Net Worth

Bernardo Bertolucci's Quotes

• [on Los Angeles] The Big Nipple.
• [His answer on 2 October 1979 to a woman who had just seen a special screening of Luna (1979) at the Film Center of the School of the Art Institute, Chicago] I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
• I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
• I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
• A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy. I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks. I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.

Interesting Facts about Bernardo Bertolucci

1. Born at 7:25pm-CET.
2. Son of poet Attilio Bertolucci and Ninetta Giovanardi. His father was Italian and his mother was born in Australia, of Italian and Irish descent.
3. Older brother of Giuseppe Bertolucci, cousin of Giovanni Bertolucci. Brother-in-law of Lucilla Albano. Brother-in-law of Mark Peploe.
4. Homage at the 48th Donostia-San Sebastián Film Festival. [2000]
5. Was voted the 44th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
6. Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 121-127. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
7. 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).
8. President of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 43rd Cannes International Film Festival in 1990.
9. In July 1990, along with Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra and Marcello Mastroianni, he wrote: "With the death of Sergei Parajanov cinema lost one of its wizards.".
10. Supported the Italian Communist Party (PCI).
11. Was close friends with Pier Paolo Pasolini.
12. He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture.
13. When the Italian Bertolucci was Oscar-nominated as Best Director for The Last Emperor (1987) (and won), none of his Best Director fellow nominees were from the United States: Adrian Lyne and John Boorman (UK), Lasse Hallström (Sweden) and Norman Jewison (Canada) making that particular instance unique in Oscar history. [April 1988]
14. Directed one Oscar nominated performance: Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris (1972).
15. He has been wheelchair bound for the past few years due to serious back problems.
16. He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on November 19, 2013.
17. He's a big fan of Breaking Bad (2008).
18. Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (1972) was pronounced obscene as was banned 'forever' by Italian courts. The director lost his civil rights for 5 years, couldn't vote and received a four months suspended sentence.
19. His family moved to Rome when he was a teenager. They lived in the Monteverde vecchio section. A few years later, Pier Paolo Pasolini, poet and friend of Bernardo's father Attilio Bertolucci, and his family came to live in another apartment in the same building. Pasolini asked Bernardo to be his assistant on Accattone (1961). Bertolucci used some locations from Monteverde vecchio in his later movies.
20. One of eight Italians to have been nominated for the 'Best Director' Academy Award. The others are Federico Fellini, Pietro Germi, Michelangelo Antonioni, Franco Zeffirelli, Gillo Pontecorvo, Lina Wertmüller and Roberto Benigni. Bertolucci is the only one who won the award.