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

The Last Emperor was the first feature film ever authorized by the government of the People's Republic of China to film in the Forbidden City.

Last year a boy he knows and helped in Journalism won the Thoroughbred Racing Ass'n Scholarship which is worth $10,000.

For the 2004 semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, staged in Istanbul thirty years after ABBA had won the contest in Brighton, Benny appeared briefly in a special comedy video made for the interval act, entitled " Our Last Video ".

During his time as a student at the school he made the films Nocturne and The Last Detail, both of which won Best Film awards at the Munich International Festival of Film Schools.

Merlin plays a modern-day villain in Roger Zelazny's short story " The Last Defender of Camelot " ( 1979 ), which won the 1980 Balrog Award for short fiction and was adapted into an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone in 1986.

Hammerstein won two Oscars for best original song — in 1941 for " The Last Time I Saw Paris " in the film Lady Be Good, and in 1945 for " It Might as Well Be Spring " in State Fair.

Gellar came into prominence in the late 1990s when she landed significant parts in the successful horror films I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2 and played Buffy Summers on the WB / UPN television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which she won six Teen Choice Awards and the Saturn Award for Best Genre TV Actress and received a Golden Globe Award nomination.

In 1993 he graduated from the National Film School of Denmark with Last Round ( Sidste Omgang ), which won the jury and producers ' awards at the Munich International Festival of Film Schools, and First Prize at Tel Aviv.

Deneuve was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1993 for her performance in Indochine ; she won César Awards for that film and The Last Metro ( 1980 ).

He starred in several British television comedy shows, including At Last the 1948 Show and Marty, the latter of which won two BAFTA awards.

The Last Crusade won the 1990 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, and was nominated for Best Motion Picture Drama at the Young Artist Awards.

Tsuburaya continued producing the special effects for non-kaiju films like The H-Man ( 1958 ), and The Last War ( 1961 ), and won another Japanese Movie Technique Award for his work in the 1957 science-fiction film The Mysterians.

The Last Picture Show won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor ( Ben Johnson ) and Best Supporting Actress ( Cloris Leachman ).

His work has been extensively used in movie soundtracks, most notably in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su on Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Score.

Zimmer acted as score producer for the 1987 film The Last Emperor, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Score.

Legend indicates that Rin Tin Tin was nominated for Best Actor at the first Academy Award competition in 1929 however Emil Jannings actually won the Best Actor award for The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command

For the 2004 semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, staged in Istanbul thirty years after ABBA had won the contest in Brighton, Lyngstad appeared in a special comedy video made for the interval act, entitled Our Last Video.

It grossed $ 120. 2 million worldwide and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Sound ( Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore and Bill Nelson ) and for Sound Effects Editing ( the former was won by The Last Emperor, the latter won by RoboCop ).

Lewis ’ s appreciation of the illustrations is evident in a letter Lewis wrote to Baynes after The Last Battle won the Carnegie Medal for best Children ’ s book of 1956: “ is it not rather ‘ our ’ medal?

The most critically acclaimed of the series is The Last Tasmanian which won the 1992 Thomas Head Raddall Award and was nominated for the Commonwealth Prize.

Quigley Down Under is probably one of his best known Western films, however he also won a " Western Heritage Award " for his 1997 role in Last Stand at Sabre River.