Film Theory: Characters–Hero, Definition of Heroism

The number of minutes of the longest Oscars broadcast (2002)? 263 (four hours and 23 minutes) Last year (2023) was 217 minutes

Paolo Taviani, a movie director who worked in inseparable tandem with his brother to create some of the most lauded works in modern Italian film, among them “Padre Padrone” and “The Night of the Shooting Stars,” died Feb. 29 at a hospital in Rome. He was 92.

Harry Nilsson’s “Everybody’s Talking,” the theme song went on to be on the Top Ten of the pop charts.

This year’s edition will be hosted by one Italian screen legend, Franco Nero, and is dedicated to another, the late Marcello Mastroianni, whose centenary it coincides with, as well as the late Italian playwright Eduardo de Filippo.