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Awards

The movie was shown at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, winning the Grand Prize of the Jury.^[1] It then went on to win the Academy Awards for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score and Best Foreign Language Film; Benigni won Best Actor for his role. The film was additionally nominated for Academy Awards for Directing, Film Editing, Best Picture, and Best Original Screenplay.