Although not entirely Italian, Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, winner of 9 Oscars, and Once Upon a Time in America of Sergio Leone came out of this period also.

Some consider Justinian the " Last of the Romans ," for he was the last Roman Emperor to speak Latin.

Also in 2007, the film The Last Legion portrayed Merlin ( initially called Ambrosinus ) as a druid and tutor of both the last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus Caesar, as well as of his son Arthur.

* Palace of the Pretender by Last Emperor ( 2003 )

He later won an Academy Award and Grammy Award for scoring The Last Emperor ( 1987 ), and has also won two Golden Globe Awards for his work as a film composer.

Moviegoers may recognize Sakamoto primarily through his score work on two films: Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence ( 1983 ), including the title theme and the duet " Forbidden Colours " with David Sylvian, and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor ( 1987 ), the latter of which earned him the Academy Award with fellow composers David Byrne and Cong Su.

He also played roles in The Last Emperor ( as Masahiko Amakasu ) and Madonna's " Rain " music video.

His greatest award success was for scoring The Last Emperor ( 1987 ), which won him the Academy Award for Best Original Score, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, and Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, as well as a BAFTA nomination.

Meiert Avis shot Sakamoto while at work on the score for " The Last Emperor " in London.

* The Last Emperor ( 1987 ) ( Won Oscar, Grammy, Golden Globe )

The acocryphal tale that the large pearl on Empress Dowager Cixi's crown ended up on Madame Chiang's gala shoes is described in Bertolucci's film The Last Emperor.

* Oscar winners: Ordinary People ( 1980 ), Chariots of Fire ( 1981 ), Gandhi ( 1982 ), Terms of Endearment ( 1983 ), Amadeus ( 1984 ), Out of Africa ( 1985 ), Platoon ( 1986 ), The Last Emperor ( 1987 ), Rain Man ( 1988 ), Driving Miss Daisy ( 1989 )

* February 7 – Puyi, Last Emperor of China ( d. 1967 )

* April 11 – The Last Emperor ( directed by Bernardo Bertolucci ) wins nine Oscars.

Romulus Augustus, Last Western Roman Emperor

** Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor (" Last Roman Emperor ")

* Anchee Min: Chinese-themed sagas Empress Orchid, The Last Emperor

Bernardo Bertolucci (; born 16 March 1941 ) is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky and The Dreamers.

In 1987, Bertolucci directed the epic The Last Emperor, a biographical film telling the life story of Aisin-Gioro Puyi, the last Emperor of China.

The Last Emperor uses Puyi's life as a mirror that reflects China's passage from feudalism through revolution to its current state.

At the 60th Academy Awards, The Last Emperor won all nine Oscars for which it was nominated: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Music, Original Score and Best Sound

Last, not least, there are some poems which K. King sent me ( addressed to herself ) when I was preparing a fresh volume, asking me to include them.

Last week it opened at the J. B. Speed Museum in Louisville, at the very moment that a second Schiele exhibit was being made ready at the Felix Landau gallery in Los Angeles.

Last year's volume was at the top a couple of inches below the ceiling.

Last week, when Royal was informed that three Longhorns were among the conference's top four in rushing, he said: `` That won't last long ''.

Last week, in the German city of Dusseldorf, G. David Thompson was making headlines that could well give Pittsburgh pause.

Her subject was large -- a copy of the Last Supper -- and her canvas, small -- the head of a tiny screw.

The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh.

The Last Day: Jesus compared the kingdom of heaven, over which He rules, to a net which was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind.

" In the 1998 film Deep Impact fictional astronaut Spurgeon " Fish " Tanner, portrayed by Robert Duvall, was described at a Presidential Press Conference as the " Last man to walk on the moon " by the President of the United States, portrayed by Morgan Freeman.

Wiles discovered Fermat's Last Theorem on his way home from school when he was 10 years old.

In 2001, his triple concerto was used in the soundtrack of The Last Castle, featuring Robert Redford and James Gandolfini.

The Durrani Empire (, also referred to as the Last Afghan Empire ) was founded in 1747 by Ahmad Shah Durrani with its capital at Kandahar, Afghanistan.

He published them as Last Poems ( 1922 ) because he felt his inspiration was exhausted and that he should not publish more in his lifetime.

Olson was working on her second book, The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House ( published October 2001 ) at the time of her death.

The Cottage was lived in by Edward Bulwer-Lytton ( who wrote The Last Days of Pompeii ) and other somewhat notable ( and moneyed ) persons until it was destroyed by fire in May 1888.

Last census was in May 2011.

Director Bryan Singer stated at the 2006 Comic-Con that he favored the three-persona concept, stating that there was Clark Kent on the farm, the bumbling Metropolis Clark, and Superman, the Last Son of Krypton.

Brandon Routh himself stated, in an HBO First Look interview that he was playing three characters ; Clark Kent, the reporter / farm boy ; Superman, the protagonist and savior of Metropolis ; and Kal-El, the Last Son of Krypton.

In 2009, Anderson was the television host of the BBC's Last Night of the Proms.

Later that year, he directed a major portion of The Last of the Mohicans after Tourneur was injured in a fall.

A few concert recordings followed, and The Last Time We Saw Paris ( 1967 ) was the " Classic " Quartet's swan-song.

The defining event of the Stone wing of the movement was the publication of the Last Will and Testament of The Springfield Presbytery, at Cane Ridge, Kentucky, in 1804.

Hopper's last performance was filmed just before his death: The Last Film Festival, slated for a 2011 release.

In common, with another important Monty Python predecessor, At Last the 1948 Show, many episodes were wiped as was common practice at the time due to the lack of any apparent market for them prior to the invention of home video.