An Oscar for Benito Mussolini?
Derby season's just begun and already somebody is griping about awards — Jonathan Chait, senior editor of The New Republic, who quotes a line from Oscar best picture champ of 1977 in his recent article: "Nearly every field of human endeavor has a regular prize. And nearly every prize seems to regularly go to a clearly undeserving winner. Woody Allen's character complained in 'Annie Hall,' 'They're always giving out awards. Best Fascist Dictator: Adolf Hitler.' If an award like that really did exist, though, they’d probably end up giving it to Mussolini." READ MORE
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Well, I guess they could theoretically give an award to a film (somewhat) dealing with Mussolini, Marco Bellocchio's VINCERE -- except that the Italian film committee opted to submit an autobiographical drama directed by Oscar winner Giuseppe Tornatore. Perhaps Benito will have better luck in the future...
Posted by: Andre | November 01, 2009 at 05:52 PM