Seven Beauties

This article is about the 1975 Italian film. For the 1196 Persian tale, see Nezami. Pasqualino Settebellezze (English title Seven Beauties) is a 1975 Italian language film written and directed by Lina Wertmuller starring Giancarlo Giannini...

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...of aristocratic Swiss descent. In 1976, she became the first woman ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing with Seven Beauties. She is recognizable by her trademark short hair and white-framed sunglasses, a look she has...

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...Europe for "Italian for Beginners" in 2000. Were she to land an Oscar nod, she would be only the fourth woman to do so after Lina Wertmuller ("Seven Beauties," 1976); Jane Campion ("The Piano," 1993); and Sofia Coppola ("Lost in Translation,"...

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...and Majnun", based on the same-titled famous work of Nizami . In 1952, under the direction of the choreograph P. A. Gusev, Garayev's "Seven Beauties" ("Yeddi Gozəl") ballet was staged at the Azerbaijani Theater of Opera and Ballet. Based on...

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...to be nominated for a best director Oscar. None has won. Her nod for 1993's "The Piano" comes between Lina Wertmueller's nomination for "Seven Beauties" (1976) and Sofia Coppola's for 2003's "Lost in Translation." Three women in the Academy...

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...one of only three women to be nominated for a directing Oscar. Lina Wertmuller and Jane Campion also earned the distinction, for "Seven Beauties" and "The Piano," respectively. Niki Caro's "Whale Rider," Catherine Hardwicke's "Thirteen,"...

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As the Times' Michael Cieply notes: "She is one of only three women ever to earn that distinction, the others being Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties and Jane Campion for The Piano." Will any films directed by women end up with Oscar...

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...top of the profession. No woman has ever won the Academy Award for Best Director and only three have been nominated: Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties in 1976, Campion with The Piano in 1993 and Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation in 2003.

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...the Would You Bonk a Nazi? angle, it makes for some nice heavy breathing, but Wertmuller pretty much took it as far as it could go in "Seven Beauties," about a guy who has sex with a grotesque woman officer at a concentration camp to save his...

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...three women ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for best director, along with Coppola ("Lost in Translation") in 2003 and Lina Wertmuller ("Seven Beauties") in 1976. Campion was nominated for "The Piano," her account of adultery set in...

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