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ARTHUR COHN


(Producer)
The only producer ever to have won five Academy Awards, and the only foreign producer ever honored with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, the Swiss-born Arthur Cohn has built a reputation for producing films of uncompromising vision and artistry.
Born in Basel, Switzerland, Cohn studied international law, and was a journalist and author before turning to producing. His first film was the Oscar-winning documentary "The Sky Above, The Mud Below" (1961). Later in the decade, he teamed up with Vittorio De Sica, handling most of the director's late films, including "A Place for Lovers" (1969), "We'll Call Him Andrea" (1972), the Oscar-winning The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971), and "A Brief Vacation" (1973).
Cohn captured his next two Best Foreign Film Oscars with "Black and White in Color" (1976), a satirical anti-war story set in Africa's Ivory Coast, and the French-produced "Dangerous Moves" (1984), a drama set in the high-tension world of international championship chess, starring Michel Piccoli and Liv Ullman. He also made notable returns to the realm of documentary with "The Final Solution" (1983), a study of the Holocaust featuring Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, and with Barbara Kopple's landmark saga of a six-year labor dispute at a Minnesota meat-packing plant, "American Dream" (1990). The latter film's Oscar for Best Documentary made Cohn's total of five wins a unique achievement.
Cohn was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Boston University, and was bestowed the title Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Government.


Arthur Cohn


FILMOGRAPHY


1961 "Sky Above, Mud Below," directed by Dominique Gaisseau
Academy Award for Best Documentary

1967 "Woman Times Seven," starring Peter Sellers, Shirley Maclaine, directed by Vittorio De Sica

1970 "Sunflower," starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, directed by Vittorio De Sica

1971 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.

1973 "A Brief Vacation," starring Florinda Bolkan, directed by Vittorio De Sica

1976 "Black and White in Color," directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Academy Award for Best Foreign Film

1984 "Dangerous Moves," starring Michel Piccoli, Liv Ullman, directed by Richard Dembo
Academy Award for Best Foreign Film

1991 "American Dream," directed by Barbara Kopple
Academy Award for Best Documentary

1995 "Two Bits," starring Al Pacino, directed by James Foley
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