Editing Bernardo Bertolucci (section)

=== ''The Last Emperor'' and later career ===
[[File:Bernardo Bertolucci.jpg|right|thumb|Bertolucci in 2011]]
In 1987, Bertolucci directed the epic ''[[The Last Emperor]]'', a biographical film telling the life story of [[House of Aisin-Gioro|Aisin-Gioro]] [[Puyi]], the last emperor of China. The film was independently produced by British producer [[Jeremy Thomas]], with whom Bertolucci worked almost exclusively from then on. The film was independently financed and three years in the making. Bertolucci, who co-wrote the film with [[Mark Peploe]], won the [[Academy Award for Best Director]]. The film 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'' [[List of films receiving six or more Academy Awards|won all nine Oscars]] for which it was nominated: [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]], [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]], [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]], [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]], [[Academy Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design]], [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction-Set Decoration]], [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Music, Original Score]] and [[Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing|Best Sound]].<ref name=nyt88>{{cite news|first=Aljean|last=Harmetz|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/12/movies/the-last-emperor-wins-9-oscars-and-is-named-best-film-of-1987.html|title='The Last Emperor' Wins 9 Oscars And Is Named Best Film of 1987|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=12 April 1988|access-date=29 November 2018}}</ref>

''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]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,967235,00.html|title=Love And Respect, Hollywood-Style|date=April 25, 1988|first=Richard|last=Corliss|authorlink=Richard Corliss|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=20 July 2021|archive-date=5 January 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130105160122/http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,967235,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Bertolucci had proposed the film to the Chinese government as one of two possible projects. The other film was ''[[Man's Fate#Film adaptations|La Condition Humaine]]'' by [[André Malraux]]. The Chinese government preferred ''The Last Emperor''.<ref>{{cite news|first=Charles|last=Champlin|authorlink=Charles Champlin|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-12-06-ca-26851-story.html|title=Bertolucci: The Emperor's New Clothier|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=6 December 1987|access-date=30 November 2018}}</ref>

After ''The Last Emperor'', ''[[The Sheltering Sky (film)|The Sheltering Sky]]'' and ''[[Little Buddha]]'', Bertolucci returned to Italy to film, and to revisit his old themes but with varying results from both critics and the public. He filmed ''[[Stealing Beauty]]'' in 1996,<ref>{{cite news|first=Julia|last=Felsenthal|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/liv-tyler-stealing-beauty-summer-movie|title=Why Stealing Beauty Is the Ultimate Summer Movie|work=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]|date=July 1, 2015|access-date=December 12, 2017}}</ref> then ''[[The Dreamers (2003 film)|The Dreamers]]'' in 2003, which describes the political passions and sexual revolutions of two siblings in Paris in 1968.<ref>{{cite web|first=Peter|last=Bradshaw|authorlink=Peter Bradshaw|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_Film_of_the_week/0,4267,1141606,00.html|title=The Dreamers|newspaper=The Guardian |date=6 December 2004|access-date=12 December 2017}}</ref>

In 2007, Bertolucci received the Golden Lion Award at the [[Venice Film Festival]] for his life's work, and in 2011 he also received the [[Palme d'Or]] at the [[Cannes Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cinematografo.it/news/speciale-palma-doro-a-bertolucci/ |title=Speciale Palma d'Oro a Bertolucci |website=Cinematografo.it |access-date=2 August 2011}}</ref>

In 2012, his final film, ''[[Me and You (film)|Me and You]]'', was screened out of competition at the [[2012 Cannes Film Festival]]<ref name="Official Selection">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/58878.html |title=2012 Official Selection |access-date=26 May 2012 |work=Cannes}}</ref><ref name="latinamericanfilm">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/may/22/me-and-you-review?newsfeed=true |title=Cannes 2012: Me and You (Io e Te) – review |access-date=26 May 2012 |first=Peter |last=Bradshaw |authorlink=Peter Bradshaw|work=The Guardian|date=22 May 2012}}</ref> and was released early in 2013 in the UK. The film is an adaptation of [[Niccolò Ammaniti]]'s [[young adult fiction|young adult]] book ''[[Me and You (novel)|Me and You]]''. The screenplay for the movie was written by Bertolucci, Umberto Contarello and Niccolò Ammaniti.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Bernardo Bertolucci girerà il suo prossimo film in 3D |first=Nicoletta |last=Gemmi |date=18 February 2011 |url=http://www.primissima.it/cinema_news/scheda/bernardo_bertolucci_girera_il_suo_prossimo_film_in_3d/ |access-date=1 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126135138/http://www.primissima.it/cinema_news/scheda/bernardo_bertolucci_girera_il_suo_prossimo_film_in_3d/ |archive-date=26 November 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Bertolucci originally intended to shoot the film in [[3D film|3D]] but was forced to abandon this plan due to cost.<ref>{{cite news|last=Vivarelli|first=Nick|title=Bertolucci abandons 3D plan for 'Me and You'|url=https://variety.com/2011/film/news/bertolucci-abandons-3d-plan-for-me-and-you-1118044104/|access-date=21 April 2012|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=7 October 2011}}</ref>

Bertolucci appeared on the [[BBC Radio 4|Radio Four]] programme ''[[Start the Week]]'' on 22 April 2013,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s09js|title=Start the week|date=22 April 2013|access-date=29 November 2013}}</ref> and on ''[[Front Row (radio programme)|Front Row]]'' on 29 April 2013, where he chose ''[[La Dolce Vita]]'', a film directed by [[Federico Fellini]], for the "Cultural Exchange".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02p38dh|title=Cultural Exchange|date=29 April 2013|access-date=29 November 2013}}</ref>

In the spring of 2018, in an interview with the Italian edition of ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)#International editions|Vanity Fair]]'', Bertolucci announced that he was preparing a new film. He stated, "The theme will be love, let's call it that. In reality, the theme is communication and therefore also incommunicability. The favorite subject of [[Michelangelo Antonioni]] and the condition I found myself facing when I moved on from my films for the few, those of the sixties, to a broader cinema ready to meet a large audience."<ref name=vanit2018>{{cite web|first=Malcolm|last=Pagani|url=https://www.vanityfair.it/show/cinema/2018/11/26/addio-a-bernardo-bertolucci-morto-roma-regista|title=Addio a Bernardo Bertolucci. L'ultima intervista|work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|date=26 November 2018|access-date=30 November 2018|language=it}}</ref>