Italian filmmaker Roberto Benigni won an Oscar in 1998 for his Life Is Beautiful, which was set against the horrors of the holocaust. His latest comedy, The Tiger and the Snow, takes place against ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis enthusiastically greeted Italian actor and comedian Roberto Benigni at the Vatican on Wednesday morning. Benigni, best known for his Oscar-winning film Life is Beautiful, ...

Pope Francis will be joined by Italian actor Roberto Benigni and soccer star Gianluigi Buffon as the pontiff celebrates World Children’s Day over the last weekend in May. The Vatican announced on ...

Roberto Benigni as Geppetto in the movie "Pinocchio." (Greta De Lazzari/Roadside Attractions) Director Garrone, no stranger to grotesque imagery — his award-winning 2015 horror-fantasy “Tale of Tales” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before we get into that, though, I’d be remiss if I didn’t plug Life is Beautiful, one of my favorite films. Benigni stars as ...

Christina Radish is the Senior Entertainment Reporter at Collider. Having worked at Collider for over a decade (since 2009), her primary focus is on film and television interviews with talent both in ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Italian comedian Roberto Benigni is best known for his goofy humor and slapstick sketches, but he may turn out to be the perfect pitchman for Pope Francis’ new book-length interview ...

Roberto Benigni, whose film “Life Is Beautiful” won three Oscars in 1999, has come out of the woodwork to support Matteo Garrone’s Golden Globe-nominated “Io Capitano,” which is Italy’s current Oscar ...

Oscar winner Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful) has been set to star as Geppetto in Gomorrah and Dogman director Matteo Garrone’s live action version of Pinocchio. Garrone will direct his own ...

It’s a common lament among film lovers: “____ is such a great movie, so why is Hollywood remaking it?” Alas, those complaints tend to fall on deaf ears: In our age of reboots and redos, studios have ...