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03/03/2014
Country's 11th Academy Award 'Italy's pride' tweets
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Rome, March 3 - Italy was jubilant Monday after its
selection for best foreign film, Paolo Sorrentino's Great Beauty, brought home
the Academy Award, its eleventh in history and most ever for any country in the
category. Italian Premier Matteo Renzi said the win was a mark of "Italian
pride," in a tweet, reflecting the front page of every national daily. The
prize puts Italy two statuettes ahead of France's nine foreign-Oscar wins, 15
years after Italy's last Academy Award for Roberto Benigni's Holocaust
tragicomedy Life Is Beautiful. The Great Beauty is a jaundiced view of
decadent, spicy but jaded high jinks in Italy's capital through the eyes of a
culture critic played by acclaimed actor Toni Servillo, a veteran of five
Sorrentino movies, who appeared beside his fellow Naples native at the podium
in Hollywood. In his acceptance speech, Sorrentino thanked his hometown and
Rome, as well as Italian cinematic icon Federico Fellini, to whom he looked for
much of the film's inspiration. After bagging top foreign honors at the Golden
Globe awards and the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), The Great Beauty was
considered the favorite at the Oscars despite a mixed reception at home.
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