ROME – The Venice Film Festival said Thursday it will give its lifetime achievement award this year to Oscar-winning director and actor Roberto Benigni. The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement is to be awarded at the 78th edition of the world’s oldest ...

ROBERTO BENIGNI MAY be world-renowned for the comic Italian movies that he has directed and starred in, but he has now achieved his greatest success by getting serious. Benigni is revered in his native country for the Chaplinesque approach he has taken to ...

The Venice Film Festival, which is set to run September 1-11, 2021, today announced that Italian actor and director Roberto Benigni will receive its Lifetime Achievement Award. The celebrated actor has been one of Italy’s most popular film figures since ...

The Oscar-winning actor-director will be honored with a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Two-time Oscar-winning actor-director Roberto Benigni will receive this ...