Last Tango in Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci will receive a lifetime achievement prize at the awards ceremony.

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Tan heard in 1987 that Bernardo Bertolucci would be filming The Last Emperor in China and Italy.

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Last Tango in Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci is to lead the jury for the 70th Venice Film Festival, organisers have announced.

BBC: Bertolucci to lead Venice film festival jury

Cult status seemed to be his lot when Bernardo Bertolucci, an Italian film director, rescued his literary reputation.

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Previous recipients of the BFI Fellowship include Lord Attenborough, Sir Michael Caine, Clint Eastwood, Bernardo Bertolucci, Martin Scorsese and Dame Maggie Smith.

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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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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.

BBC: Bertolucci to be honoured at European Film Awards

The director, Bernardo Bertolucci, loves to create a hothouse.

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