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Branko Lustig (10 June 1932 – 14 November 2019) was a Croatian film producer best known for winning Academy Awards for Best Picture for Schindler's List and Gladiator. He is the only person born in the territory of present-day Croatia to have won two Academy Awards.
Nov 21, 2019 · Nearly 50 years after his liberation from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Branko Lustig stood onstage at the 1994 Academy Awards ceremony to accept an Oscar for best picture as one of three...
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Nov 14, 2019 · Branko Lustig, a Croatia-born Jew who survived the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen and went on to win two best picture Oscars, died Thursday at his home in Zagreb, Croatia. He...
Nov 19, 2019 · Branko Lustig, famed producer of Schindler’s List, Sophie’s Choice, and Gladiator has died at the age of 87. As a child, Lustig was imprisoned for more than two years at Auschwitz and later Bergen-Belsen.
Nov 16, 2019 · Branko Lustig was just a boy, newly arrived at Auschwitz, when he witnessed a scene that would be seared into his memory.
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Branko Lustig was born on 10 June 1932 in Osijek, Croatia, Yugoslavia. He was a production manager and producer, known for Gladiator (2000), Schindler's List (1993) and The Saint (1997). He was married to Mirjana. He died on 14 November 2019 in Zagreb, Croatia.
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Nov 14, 2019 · Today we mourn the loss of one of our closest friends, Branko Lustig, a Holocaust survivor and two-time Academy Award winner who produced Schindler’s List and played an indispensable role in the founding of USC Shoah Foundation. He was 87.
