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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 .
- 1955–2019
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...
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(1932 - ) Branko Lustig is a Croatian film producer. He is the only person born in the territory of present-day Croatia to have won two Academy Awards. Lustig was born in Osijek, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, to a Croatian Jewish family. His father, Mirko, was head-waiter at an Osijek Café Central, and his mother, Vilma, was a housewife.
By Emily Langer. November 15, 2019 at 9:09 p.m. EST. Branko Lustig visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem in 2015. (Nir Elias/AP) Branko Lustig was just a boy, newly arrived...
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 15, 2019 · By Linnea Crowther November 15, 2019. 0. Branko Lustig was the Oscar-winning producer of movies including “Schindler’s List” and “Gladiator.” Born in Yugoslavia, Lustig was imprisoned in the...
Nov 15, 2019 · By Dave McNary. Rob Latour/Shutterstock; Fehim Demir/EPA/Shutterstock. Steven Spielberg has offered a touching remembrance of Branko Lustig, the Holocaust survivor who produced “Schindler’s...
