Bertolucci is also known for his steamy 1972 film Last Tango in Paris, with Marlon Brando.
Last Tango in Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci will receive a lifetime achievement prize at the awards ceremony.
"It's hard not to get excited by these results, " said Sergio Bertolucci, the research director at CERN.
Tan heard in 1987 that Bernardo Bertolucci would be filming The Last Emperor in China and Italy.
Last Tango in Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci is to lead the jury for the 70th Venice Film Festival, organisers have announced.
Cult status seemed to be his lot when Bernardo Bertolucci, an Italian film director, rescued his literary reputation.
Godard, Truffaut, Bertolucci, Fassbinder, Fellini and Visconti are among the foreign directors introduced to these shores by the NFT.
Mr Bertolucci's 1990 film gave it legs, but it is a great one.
Previous recipients of the BFI Fellowship include Lord Attenborough, Sir Michael Caine, Clint Eastwood, Bernardo Bertolucci, Martin Scorsese and Dame Maggie Smith.
The festival's gala section features new works from Bernardo Bertolucci, John Sayles, Notting Hill's Roger Michell and Amores Perros director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
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"Although this result isn't as exciting as some would have liked, it is what we all expected deep down, " Bertolucci said in a statement.
Bernardo Bertolucci, director of Last Tango in Paris and The Last Emperor, is to receive a lifetime achievement prize at the 2012 European Film Awards.
"We now have more than double the data we had last year, " Sergio Bertolucci, the director for research and computing at CERN, said last month.
"Few directors can bring together, like Bertolucci, a long experience with the fact of living in the present of cinematography, " Venice festival director Alberto Barbera said, in a statement.
Physicist Sergio Bertolucci, research director at Switzerland's CERN physics lab, presented the results Friday at the 25th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics in Kyoto, Japan.
Interviewed about their irrational love of film are Francis Ford Coppola (who says cinema is "given by the gods"), Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Ryan Gosling, Bertolucci and Cannes director Thierry Fremaux.
The director, Bernardo Bertolucci, loves to create a hothouse.
Born in Parma in 1940, Bertolucci began his career as an assistant director to Pier Paolo Pasolini on his 1961 film Accattone and directed his first feature at the age of 21.
" The final chapter in this story took place at the International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics in Kyoto today, with Bertolucci also commenting that, at the very least, the story captured the public imagination, pointing out that "An unexpected result was put up for scrutiny, thoroughly investigated and resolved in part thanks to collaboration between normally competing experiments.
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