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W I N N E R��F O R E I G N
L A N G U A G E F I L M
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
Italy
FILM
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
DIRECTED BY
Roberto Benigni
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
Roberto Benigni: Thank you! Thank you! Sophia, (inaudible) I want to be rocked by the waves of your beauty. Come here. Thank you! Thank you! This is a moment of joy and I want to kiss everybody because you are the (inaudible) of the joy. Here you kisses the joy as it flies - leaves an eternity sunrise - the said poet. And this is wonderful to be here. Wonderful, I feel like, now really to, to dive in this ocean of (inaudible) genorisity, this is too much. Your generosity, this is, and uh, how do you say when the rain, the, the hailstorm, it's a hailstorm of kindness of gratitude for you. And really I would like to thank everybody that did the movie because, without them, I couldn't fly with this movie - everybody who did, the producer, the screenwriter, Cerami, Nicola Piovani, Vittorio Cecchi Gori. Harvey Weinstein, Miramax film, for, thank you very much for what you did. And also I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio in the little village in Italy they gave me the biggest gift, the poverty and I want to thank them for the rest of my life. Really, but thank you mama and papo. Thank you! And thank you for your love, because it, if I am here, it is because people love the movie so it is always the question of love. I would like to dedicate this prize to those that because the subject of my movie, those who are not here, they gave their life in order that we can say, "Life is beautiful." And I would like to also say, a kiss to Giorgio Cantarini, the little boy, and because we are talking the love, (inaudible) and love is divinity, and sometimes if you are afraid, like all the divinities you can appears. That's why I want to dedicate this prize to Nicoletta Braschi. Thank you!
MAKING HISTORY
This is Italy's tenth Oscar and twenty-sixth nomination. No other country has won more Oscars for Foreign Language Films.
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