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Arthur Cohn (born February 4, 1927 in Basel, Switzerland) is a film producer.
Biography
Cohn was born to a Jewish family, the son of Marcus Cohn, a lawyer and leader of the Swiss religious Zionist movement who moved to Israel in 1949 where he helped to write many of the basic laws of the new state and served as Israel’s assistant attorney-general. Cohn's grandfather, Arthur Cohn, was the chief rabbi of Basel.
Six of his films have won the Academy Award. He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1992, the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture in 1995, the Humanitarian Award by the National Board of Review in 2001, the Guardian of Zion Award in 2004 as well as the UNESCO Award in 2005. He is a multiple honorary degree recipient from Boston University (1998), Yeshiva University (2001) and the University of Basel (2006). For decades he worked with Lilian Birnbaum (Paris) and Pierre Rothschild (Zurich).
His best-known fictional film is The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970, directed by Vittorio De Sica). He also produced films by Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September) and Walter Salles (Central Station, Behind the Sun).
Filmography
| Year | Film | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | Sky Above and Mud Beneath (Le Ciel et la Boue) | Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary Feature |
| 1964 | Paris Secret | Documentary Feature |
| 1967 | Woman Times Seven | starring Shirley MacLaine and Peter Sellers |
| 1968 | A Place for Lovers (Amanti) | starring Faye Dunaway and Marcello Mastroianni |
| 1970 | Sunflower (I Girasoli) | starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni |
| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini) | Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film | |
| 1972 | We'll Call Him Andrew (Lo chiameremo Andrea) | starring Nino Manfredi |
| 1973 | A Brief Vacation (Una breve vacanza) | David di Donatello Award Winner |
| 1976 | Black and White in Color (Noir et Blanc en Couleur) | Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film |
| 1979 | Adoption (L'adoption) | starring Geraldine Chaplin |
| 1981 | The Yellow Star – The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45 (Der Gelbe Stern) | Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature |
| 1984 | Love on the Ground (L'Amour par Terre) | starring Jane Birkin and Geraldine Chaplin |
| Dangerous Moves (La Diagonale du Fou) | Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film | |
| 1990 | American Dream | Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary Feature |
| 1991 | November Days | Documentary Feature |
| 1995 | Two Bits | starring Al Pacino |
| 1997 | White Lies | starring Rosanna Arquette and Harvey Fierstein |
| 1998 | Central Station (Central do Brasil) | Academy Award Nominee and Golden Globe Winner for Best Foreign Language Film |
| 1999 | Children of the Night | Documentary Short with rare footage of Children in the Holocaust |
| One Day in September | Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary Feature | |
| 2001 | Behind the Sun (Abril Despedaçado) | Golden Globe Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film |
| 2004 | The Chorus (Les Choristes) | Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and for Best Music |
| 2008 | The Yellow Handkerchief | starring William Hurt, Maria Bello, Eddie Redmayne and Kristen Stewart |
| The Children of Huang Shi | starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell and Chow Yun-Fat | |
| 2009 | Feathered Fan and Silken Ribbon | Documentary Feature |
| 2012 | Russian Disco (Russendisko) | based on Wladimir Kaminer's acclaimed book |