Example sentences for: oscar-winning

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  • Italian newspapers continued to debate the behavior of the Oscar-winning actor-director of Life Is Beautiful , Roberto Benigni, who smothered President Clinton with kisses during the Florence summit last weekend.

  • In the Los Angeles Times , Oscar-winning Titanic director James Cameron savages the paper's chief movie critic, Kenneth Turan, for panning his movie on two separate occasions.

  • And the company has even got credit for an Oscar-winning film since its subsidiary Miramax released Good Will Hunting .

  • Tuesday's Corriere della Sera of Milan reported that Geraldine Chaplin has written to Roberto Benigni, the Oscar-winning star and director of Life is Beautiful , to thank him for reminding her of her father, Charlie Chaplin, with "his elegance and class in every little gesture, his nobility of spirit, and, above all, his ability to be moved."

  • Even a "semi-spontaneous tribute to Muhammad Ali couldn't rescue the festivities," says Brian Lowry of the Los Angeles Times . Redeeming features included the return of master of ceremonies Billy Crystal and his "repeated relief from the pretentiousness of presenters" (Tom Shales, the Washington Post ); Jessica Yu's crack that her evening's outfit cost more than her Oscar-winning documentary; and David Helfgott's performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee . (See "The Week/The Spin" for more on the results.)


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