Bernardo Bertolucci

Italian film director and screenwriter (1941–2018)

  • Fame63.8
  • Momentum1.3
  • Directors rank#183
Source-basedStable
  • Fame63.8
  • Momentum1.3
  • Directors rank#183
  • Wikipedia49.9K
Lived 1941–2018, aged 77Italy
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  • Wikipedia
    81 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1941–2018
    Aged 77
  • Known for
    The Dreamers
    2003
Summary
Updated 2026-06-10

The first Italian to win Best Director at the Oscars, for The Last Emperor in 1987. But the film that shadowed his career was Last Tango in Paris — the 1972 erotic drama whose rape scene and on-set treatment of Maria Schneider sparked controversy that never fully receded.

Biography

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A protégé of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bertolucci directed his first film at 22. Before the Revolution (1964) and The Conformist (1970) earned him classic status in international art cinema, the latter landing an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Last Tango in Paris followed in 1972, a lightning rod. He continued with ambitious, often polarizing work through the '70s and early '80s — the five-hour epic 1900, the incest-tinged La Luna, the dark comedy Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man. Then The Last Emperor swept the 1988 Oscars, all nine it was nominated for, launching what critics later call…

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  • honorary doctorate from the University of Parma
  • European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Fame
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63.8
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Momentum1.3
Historical25.8
Now attention11.2
Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
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#183
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