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Bernardo Bertolucci: Director Oscar
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Bertolucci's strong leftist views similarly informed one of his best-received efforts, 1987's The Last Emperor, a lush, Oscar-sweeping biopic about China's last pre-Communist ruler. In 2003, Bertolucci revisited his cinephilic past with The Dreamers, a sexually charged valentine to the French New Wave that earned an NC-17 for its explicit content. In connection with the Criterion Collection's release of La Commare Secca, The Onion A.V. Club recently spoke with Bertolucci about Brando, Godard, an early apprenticeship with Pier Paolo Pasolini, and American cinematic imperialism.
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Bertolucci was the first to received authorization to shoot a film in the Forbidden City in China, where he filmed his ‘The Last Emperor’, about the last emperor of China dethroned by Mao Tse-Tung. The movie won all nine Oscars it was nominated for, including the one for best movie 1987.
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The Golden Lion is by no means Bertolucci's first accolade. In 1988, his epic look at the final days of divine right in China, "The Last Emperor," won nine Oscars. Bertolucci, with droll understatement, describes this experience as an "Oscars overdose."
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