1. – Lionel Abelanski, Train de vie, France, 1998. French producers sent Romanian Radu Mihailenu’s script to Italy’s triple-threat box-office king. Too late! He was into his own concentration camp black-comedy, La vita e bella/Life Is Beautiful. Benigni is only the second actor (after Olivier!) to direct himself to an Oscar (the first Best Actor Oscar for a foreign language film) and the sixth to direct himself a Razzie for Worst Actor – in 2003 for his horrendous Pinocchio.
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