Basic Information About Roberto Benigni
Category | Celebrities βΊ Directors |
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Professions | Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter, Film director, Television Director, Theatre Director, Singer-songwriter, Poet |
Net worth | $15,000,000 |
Date of birth | 1952-10-27 (71 years old) |
Place of birth | Castiglion Fiorentino |
Nationality | Italy |
Spouse | Nicoletta Braschi - (26 DecemberΒ 1991 - present) |
Gender | Male |
Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.689 m) |
Social Media | βοΈ Wikipedia βοΈ IMDb |
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What Movie Awards did Roberto Benigni win?
Oscar |
Golden Globe |
Golder Raspberry |
BAFTA |
Other |
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1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 37 |
Roberto Benigni awards
Award Name | State | Movie / Series Name | Year |
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Golden Ciak - Best Supporting Actor (Migliore Attore Non Protagonista) | Winner | Pinocchio | 2020 |
Oscar - Best Actor in a Leading Role | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1999 |
BAFTA Film Award - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1999 |
Actor - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1999 |
Felix - Best Foreign Language Film | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 2018 |
Audience Award - Best Feature Film | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1998 |
Amanda - Best Foreign Feature Film (Γ rets utenlandske spillefilm) | Nominee | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1999 |
American Comedy Award - Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1999 |
Audience Award - | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1998 |
Best Foreign Film Award - | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1999 |
Blue Ribbon Award - Best Foreign Language Film | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 2000 |
BSFC Award - Best Director | Nominee | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1998 |
Grand Prize of the Jury - | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1998 |
CFCA Award - Best Foreign Language Film | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1999 |
Chlotrudis Award - Best Director | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1999 |
Czech Lion - Best Foreign Language Film (NejlepsΓ zahranicnΓ film) | Nominee | La vita Γ¨ bella | 2000 |
CΓ©sar - Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film Γ©tranger) | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1999 |
Robert - Best Non-American Film (Γ rets ikke-amerikanske film) | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 2000 |
DGA Award - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Nominee | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1999 |
European Film Award - European Actor | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1998 |
Critics Award - Best Foreign Film | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1999 |
Critic's Choice Award - Best Film | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1998 |
Best Foreign Film - | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1999 |
Golden Ciak - Best Actor (Migliore Attore Protagonista) | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1998 |
Golden Globe - Best Actor (Migliore Attore) | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1998 |
Guild Film Award - Gold - Foreign Film (AuslΓ€ndischer Film) | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1999 |
Silver Ribbon - Best Director (Regista del Miglior Film) | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1998 |
Sierra Award - Best Actor | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1998 |
Lumiere Award - Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film Γ©tranger) | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1999 |
People's Choice Award - | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1998 |
Audience Award - | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1999 |
Premio Sergio Amidei - | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1998 |
Golden Aries - Best Foreign Actor | Nominee | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1999 |
Rosa de Sant Jordi Audience Award - Best Foreign Film (Mejor PelΓcula Extranjera) | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 2000 |
Golden Satellite Award - Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language | Nominee | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1999 |
People's Choice Award - | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1998 |
Most Popular Film - | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1998 |
Audience Award - | Winner | La vita Γ¨ bella | 1998 |
Silver Ribbon - Best Actor (Migliore Attore Protagonista) | Winner | Down by Law | 1987 |
Razzie Award - Worst Actor | Winner | Pinocchio | 2003 |
Stinker Award - Worst Actor | Nominee | Pinocchio | 2002 |
Roberto Benigni roles
Movie / Series | Role |
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Pinocchio | Geppetto |
La vita Γ¨ bella | Director |
La vita Γ¨ bella | Writer |
La vita Γ¨ bella | Writer |
La vita Γ¨ bella | Guido |
Night on Earth | Driver (segment "Rome") |
Down by Law | Roberto |
La luna | Upholsterer |
Coffee and Cigarettes | Roberto (segment "Strange to Meet You") |
To Rome with Love | Leopoldo |
Pinocchio | Director |
Pinocchio | Writer |
Pinocchio | Writer |
Pinocchio | Pinocchio |
AstΓ©rix & ObΓ©lix contre CΓ©sar | Lucius Detritus |
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Self / ... 5 episodes, 1993-2002 |
Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self / ... 3 episodes, 1998-2006 |
Roberto Benigni's Quotes
- [on winning the Best Actor Academy Award for Het leven is mooi (1997) after already accepting the Best Foreign Language Film award as its director] "Thank you. This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all my English!"
- Charlie Chaplin used his ass better than any other actor. In all his films his ass is practically the protagonist. For a comic, the ass has incredible importance.
- [said backstage at the Oscars after he won the Best Actor category] "I'm so happy that every organ in my body is moving in a very bad way."
- On Stanley Kubrick: Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.
- The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards. So the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur, backwards.
Interesting Facts about Roberto Benigni
- After his movie Het leven is mooi (1997) received seven Academy Award nominations, he met the Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro and said, after shaking his hand: "Now I have the Oscar in my hand!".
- When the Ulivo party won the parliamentary elections, Benigni jumped on the stage and kissed Walter Veltroni, one of the party's candidates.
- His father Luigi Benigni (1918-2004), who worked as a farmer, carpenter and bricklayer, was a prisoner in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen between 1943 and 1945. Roberto used his stories as the basis for his film Het leven is mooi (1997). However, unlike Roberto's character in the film, Roberto's father was not of Jewish heritage.
- His mother Isolina Papini (1918-2004) worked as a fabric inspector.
- Sister: Bruna Benigni (textile worker), born 1945.
- Sister: Albertina Benigni (flower shop owner), born 1947.
- Sister: Anna Benigni (teacher's aide), born 1948.
- Attended a seminary in Florence, planning to become a priest.
- Left the seminary after two-thirds of Florence had been flooded by the Arno River (4 November 1966).
- Graduated from Instituto Tecnico Commericale Datini di Prato.
- He and Laurence Olivier are the only two actors to have directed themselves in Oscar winning performances.
- The first actor to win a Best Actor Oscar for a non-English speaking role.
- He is the sixth actor in history to win the Oscar for Best Actor in a comedy after Clark Gable in Het gebeurde op 'n avond (1934), James Stewart in De bronzen godin (1940), Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou (1965), Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl (1977) and Jack Nicholson in As Good as It Gets (1997).
- Benigni met wife Nicoletta Braschi on the set of Tu mi turbi (1983).
- The first actor to win a Worst Actor Razzie for a non-English speaking role.
- He joins Sylvester Stallone, Prince, Kevin Costner, William Shatner, and Tom Green as being the only actors to direct themselves in performances that would "win" them a Razzie Award for Worst Actor.
- When he "won" the 2003 Razzie Award for Worst Actor in Pinocchio (2002), Razzies.com declared his win "By a Nose!", as he'd just barely beaten fellow nominee Steven Seagal in the film Half Past Dead (2002) by a mere few votes.
- Federico Fellini considered him a genius
- Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 1990
- Has his look-alike puppet in the French show Les Guignols de l'info (1988).
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