FLORENCE, ITALY – The 2014 best foreign film, Paolo Sorrentino’s Great Beauty, brought home the Academy Award. It is the eleventh victory in history for Italy and most ever for any country in the category.
The Great Beauty is a jaundiced view of decadent, spicy but jaded high jinks in Italy’s capital through the eyes of a culture critic played by acclaimed actor Toni Servillo, a veteran of five Sorrentino movies, who appeared beside his fellow Naples native at the podium in Hollywood.
In the Sorrentino’s film it is possible to watch many beautiful areas of the Giglio Island, particularly the port, the Arenella road and the landscape where the film’s characters observe the wreck of the Concordia. The scenes were filmed in September 2012.
In his acceptance speech, Sorrentino thanked his hometown and Rome, as well as Italian cinematic icon Federico Fellini, to whom he looked for much of the film’s inspiration. After bagging top foreign honors at the Golden Globe awards and the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), The Great Beauty was considered the favorite at the Oscars despite a mixed reception at home.
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