Editing Cinema of Italy (section)

===1990s===
[[File:Roberto Benigni Nicoletta Braschi.jpg|thumb|[[Roberto Benigni]] and [[Nicoletta Braschi]]]]
The economic crisis that emerged in the 1980s began to ease over the next decade.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24017598|title=Introduzione. Cinema italiano contemporaneo|jstor=24017598|access-date=9 January 2022|language=it|last1=Vitti|first1=Antonio|journal=Annali d'Italianistica|year=2012|volume=30|pages=17–29}}</ref> Nonetheless, the 1992–93 and 1993–94 seasons marked an all-time low in the number of films made, in the national market share (15 per cent), in the total number of viewers (under 90 million per year) and in the number of cinemas.<ref>{{cite book|first=Paolo |last=D'Agostini|chapter=Il cinema italiano da Moretti a oggi|title=Storia del cinema mondiale|pages=1102–1103|language=it|isbn=978-8806145286}}</ref> The effect of this industrial contraction sanctions the total disappearance of Italian [[Film genre|genre cinema]] in the middle of the decade, as it was no longer suitable to compete with the contemporary big Hollywood [[Blockbuster (entertainment)|blockbusters]] (mainly due to the enormous budget differences available), with its directors and actors who therefore almost entirely switch to television film.

A new generation of directors has helped return Italian cinema to a healthy level since the end of the 1980s. Probably the most noted film of the period is ''[[Nuovo Cinema Paradiso]]'', for which [[Giuseppe Tornatore]] won a 1989 Oscar (awarded in 1990) for Best Foreign Language Film. This award was followed when [[Gabriele Salvatores]]'s ''[[Mediterraneo (film)|Mediterraneo]]'' won the same prize in 1991.

''[[Il Postino: The Postman]]'' (1994), directed by the British [[Michael Radford]] and starring [[Massimo Troisi]], received five nominations at the Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Troisi, and won for [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]]. Another exploit was in 1998 when [[Roberto Benigni]] won three Oscars for his movie ''[[Life Is Beautiful]]'' (''La vita è bella)'' (Best Actor for Benigni himself, Best Foreign Film, Best Music). The film was also nominated for Best Picture.

[[Leonardo Pieraccioni]] made his directorial debut with ''[[The Graduates (1995 film)|The Graduates]]'' (1995).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/leonardo-pieraccioni|title=Pieraccioni, Leonardo|website=[[Treccani Encyclopedia]]|access-date=21 January 2020}}</ref> In 1996 he directed his breakthrough film ''[[The Cyclone (1996 film)|The Cyclone]]'', which grossed [[Italian lira|Lire&nbsp;]]75&nbsp;billion at the box office.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1999/10/23/il-ciclone-film-record-va-in.html|title=E Il Ciclone, film record, va in tv|publisher=[[la Repubblica]]|date=23 October 1999|access-date=21 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2016/09/03/ventanni-dopo-il-ciclone-e-un-cult-panarielloFirenze11.html|title= Vent'anni dopo Il Ciclone è un cult. Pieraccioni lo celebra tra Conti e Panariello|publisher=la Repubblica|date=3 September 2016|access-date=21 January 2020}}</ref>