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# 77 MARCH 21 , 2016
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ITALIAN CINEMA:
THE OSCARS 2016
By Edoardo Peretti
“Non essere cattivo” by Claudio Caligari, the beautiful Italian
movie selected to represent our
country for the Oscar as “Foreign Language Film”, didn’t get
the nomination. Despite this, the
Oscar ceremony spoke Italian:
the Oscar for best soundtrack
has been won by Ennio Morricone, for the music of “The Hateful Eight” by a talented Italian
American, Quentin Tarantino (a
movie unjustly ignored by the
Academy for the other nominations).
A bit of tricolor has also colored
the victory of the Italian American Leonardo DiCaprio, who
has spent his whole career so
close that he could almost smell
it, so that the "Oscar curse" on
the talented actor had become
a slogan. Then, it’s a shame that
the jury didn’t give the Oscar in
the category of Best Supporting
Actor to another Italian American icon, Sylvester Stallone, who
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