Editing Massimo Troisi (section)

== ''Il Postino'' and death ==
Troisi came to international fame through the success of ''[[Il Postino: The Postman]]'', directed by [[Michael Radford]]. While working with an increasingly weakened heart from his teenage bout with rheumatic fever, Troisi died in 1994 of a heart attack in his sister's house at [[Infernetto]], [[Rome]], 12 hours after the camera stopped working and main filming on ''Il Postino'' had finished. It was reported that he postponed surgery to complete the film.<ref>{{cite news|last=Laurino|first=Maria|title=FILM; A Postman, a Poet, an Actor's Farewell|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F6061FFE3D590C728DDDAF0894DD494D81|access-date=21 March 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=11 June 1995}}</ref>
Troisi was just 41.

Years before he had scheduled a heart transplant but did not proceed with it, telling Radford: "You know, I don’t really want this new heart. You know why. Because the heart is the centre of emotion, and an actor is a man of emotion. Who knows what kind of an actor I’m going to be with someone else’s heart inside of me."<ref name=":0" />

Troisi was [[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|posthumously nominated]] for Academy Awards for [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] and [[Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)|Best Writing]] for ''Il Postino'', and was the sixth person to be posthumously nominated for an acting Academy Award. Earlier posthumous nominations were [[Jeanne Eagels]], [[James Dean]] (twice), [[Spencer Tracy]], [[Peter Finch]] (won) and [[Ralph Richardson]]. In 1996 he was also nominated for a [[49th_British_Academy_Film_Awards|BAFTA]] in the [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|Best Actor in a Leading Role]] category. The film won [[BAFTA Award for Best Direction|Best Direction]] and [[BAFTA Award for Best Original Music|Best Original Music]] categories

[[Pino Daniele]] worked on the soundtracks of most of his films. [[Eduardo De Filippo]], the most prominent Italian dramatist of the 20th century with [[Luigi Pirandello]], said he was "a comedian of the future, rooted in the past".