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An inspired motion picture masterpiece, Life is Beautiful was nominated for 7 Academy Awards-- winning 3 Oscars, including one for Best Actor Roberto Benigni.

Conjuring keys and hats out of thin air, Guido (Benigni), a clever Jewish-Italian waiter, successfully courts Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), a beautiful local woman, in Fascist pre-WWII Italy. His life, however, is turned upside down a few years later when he, Dora, and their young son, Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini), are sent to a Nazi concentration camp. Refusing to give up hope, Guido tries to protect his son's innocence by pretending that their imprisonment is just an elaborate game, with the grand prize being a tank.

For years the box-office champ in Italy and the country's most beloved slapstick comic, the Chaplinesque Benigni took a huge risk with Life is Beautiful. Many people worried that the film would be as offensive as plopping a cartoon character in Auschwitz. Although Life is Beautiful did provoke some controversy, many people found the film to be a poignant, tragicomic story that profoundly reaffirmed the humanity of concentration camp victims. The film became the highest grossing foreign language film in the U.S. and established Benigni as an international star.