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Branko Lustig (10 June 1932 – 14 November 2019) was a Croatian film producer best known for winning Academy Awards for Best Picture for Schindler's List and Gladiator. He is the only person born in the territory of present-day Croatia to have won two Academy Awards.
Nov 21, 2019 · By Richard Sandomir. Nov. 21, 2019. Nearly 50 years after his liberation from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Branko Lustig stood onstage at the 1994 Academy Awards ceremony to accept an...
Nov 14, 2019 · Branko Lustig, a Croatia-born Jew who survived the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen and went on to win two best picture Oscars, died Thursday at his home in Zagreb, Croatia....
Branko Lustig was a production manager and producer of films such as Gladiator, Schindler's List and The Saint. He was also a Croatian Jewish survivor of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, and made a cameo appearance in Schindler's List.
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Nov 16, 2019 · Branko Lustig was just a boy, newly arrived at Auschwitz, when he witnessed a scene that would be seared into his memory.
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Nov 19, 2019 · Branko Lustig, who survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen as a child, died at 87 in Croatia. He worked with Steven Spielberg on Schindler’s List and other films, and helped create the USC Shoah Foundation.
Nov 14, 2019 · Holocaust survivor and Academy Award winner Branko Lustig, who nabbed best picture Oscars for “Schindler’s List” and “Gladiator,” has died at his home in Croatia. He was 87.
