The Oscar-winning Italian actor made his own version of 'Pinocchio' in 2002. By Ariston Anderson Oscar-winning actor Roberto Benigni is returning to the big screen to play the role of Geppetto in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Pinocchio,” from Italian auteur Matteo Garrone and starring Roberto Benigni as Geppetto, has been acquired for U.S. distribution ...

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 ...

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” ...

Roberto Benigni is a beloved Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and film & television director who famously won an Oscar for Best Actor by starring in the classic family story Life is Beautiful.

With her Oscar win for the Spanish-language “Emilia Pérez,” Zoe Saldaña joins a short list of performers who have won for non-English language roles. She’s just the third ever to do so for Best ...

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 ...

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, ...

The ‘Life is Beautiful’ star and director jokes that as a child he wanted to be pope himself and says "I would do anything for Pope Francis: Swiss guard, Popemobile driver, anything!" By Ariston ...