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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 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...
Mr. Lustig, who received a second Oscar as a producer of “Gladiator” (2000), the Ridley Scott epic of ancient Rome that starred Russell Crowe, died Nov. 14 in Croatia. He was 87.
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Nov 21, 2019 · By Richard Sandomir. 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...
Jan 8, 2016 · January 8, 2016 10:00am. As a child in Auschwitz, the future film producer witnessed seven prisoners about to be hanged who asked those present to tell the world how they died. “I took this as a...