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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 · 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...
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. Seven prisoners at the Nazi death camp were to be hanged in a public ...
- Emily Langer
Branko Lustig was born on June 10, 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 November 14, 2019 in Zagreb, Croatia.
- June 10, 1932
- November 14, 2019
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.
Jan 8, 2016 · After liberation from Auschwitz he became a Hollywood producer, winning best picture Oscars for 'Schindler's List' and 'Gladiator.'.
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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.
