Seven Beauties

...director Oscar nomination. 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...

In this article: Oscar, Toronto Film Festival, Jane Campion, The Piano, Bright Star, An Education, Whip It, Chanel, Lone Scherfig, and Jennifer's Body

...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," 2003). Campion and...

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...by Kate Winslet. In the film Seven Beauties, directed by Lina Wertmuller, the main character saves his life by having an affair with the female commander of a concentration camp, where he has been imprisoned for deserting the Italian Army.

In this article: Ilse Koch, Irma Grese, and Germany

...mother have survived and become prostitutes. The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role , Best Director , Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay . Wertmuller was the first woman ever nominated...

In this article: Giancarlo Giannini, Lina Wertmuller, Shirley Stoler, Academy Awards, Italian Army, Karl Otto Koch, Nezami, Ilse Koch, and Fernando Rey

...herself at Aichach women's prison on September 1, 1967. She was sixty years old. The commandant in Lina Wertmuller's film Seven Beauties was based on Koch. So was the title character of the 1974 Nazi exploitation film Ilsa, She Wolf of the...

In this article: Ilse Koch, Karl Otto Koch, CSI, Germany, US, Suicide, World War I, Nazi exploitation, Nazi Party, and Lucius Clay