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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.
21 Nov 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 Oscar for best picture as one of three...
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.
14 Nov 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. He...
16 Nov 2019 · Branko Lustig was just a boy, newly arrived at Auschwitz, when he witnessed a scene that would be seared into his memory.
19 Nov 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.
14 Nov 2019 · ( JTA) — Branko Lustig, the Oscar-winning producer of the Holocaust film “Schindler’s List,” has died. Lustig died Thursday at his home in Croatia at the age of 87. His death was announced by...
