Fact: Oscar winner Roberto Benigni has been added to the cast of Woody Allen's new movie The Bop Decameron, which will be the first film the moviemaker has shot in Rome, Italy. The cast will also feature Allen himself, Penelope Cruz, Alec Baldwin and Ellen Page.
Quote: "I was the first guy whose head he stepped on, so I remember that pretty well." Billy Bob Thornton remembers Roberto Benigni's show-stopping crowd walk at the 1998 Oscars, where the Italian star won Best Actor and Best Foreign Film Academy Awards for Life is Beautiful.
Fact: George Clooney is only the the fifth star to be nominated for acting, directing and writing awards in the same year. The other four are Orson Welles (1942), Woody Allen (1978), Warren Beatty (1979 and 1982) and Roberto Benigni (1999).
Fact: George Clooney is only the the fifth star to be nominated for acting, directing and writing awards in the same year. The other four are Orson Welles (1942), Woody Allen (1978), Warren Beatty (1979 and 1982) and Roberto Benigni (1999).