Editing Arthur Cohn

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| name               = Arthur Cohn
| image              = Arthur Cohn Portrait (cropped).jpg
| caption            = Arthur Cohn at the Hong Kong International Film Festival
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| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1927|2|4|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Basel]], [[Canton of Basel-Stadt|Basel-Stadt]], Switzerland
| death_date         = 
| death_place        = 
| occupation         = Film producer
}}

'''Arthur Cohn''' (born 4 February 1927) is a Swiss film producer and a multiple Academy Award winner.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121104190006/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/85445/Arthur-Cohn/awards New York Times]</ref>

==Biography==
Cohn was born to a [[Jewish]] family,<ref>[http://www.jta.org/1996/11/27/archive/swiss-jewish-film-producer-behind-oscar-winning-movies-2 Jewish Telegraph Agency: "Swiss Jewish Film Producer Behind Oscar Winning Movies"] November 27, 1996</ref> the son of Marcus Cohn, a lawyer and leader of the Swiss Zionist movement who moved to Israel in 1949 where he helped to write many of the basic laws of the new state and served as Israel’s assistant attorney-general. Cohn's mother, Rose Cohn-Galewski, was a Jewish-German poet from Berlin. Cohn's grandfather, [[Arthur Cohn (rabbi)|Arthur Cohn]], was the first chief rabbi of Basel.<ref>[http://www.jta.org/1999/11/21/life-religion/features/swiss-jewish-film-producer-behind-oscar-winning-movies Jewish Telegraph Agency: "Swiss Jewish film producer behind Oscar winning movies" By Tom Tugend] November 21, 1999</ref> After completing high school, Cohn became a journalist and a reporter for Swiss Radio, covering the Middle East as well as soccer and ice hockey games. He shifted from journalist writing to script writing, but soon found his passion in film production.

Six of his films have won the [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]],<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004453/awards Arthur Cohn – Awards<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> three in the category of Best Foreign Language Film and three in the category of Best Documentary Feature. Cohn was awarded a Star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] in 1992, the [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]] by the French [[Minister of Culture]] in 1995, the Humanitarian Award by the [[National Board of Review]] in 2001, the [[Guardian of Zion Award]] in 2004 as well as the [[UNESCO]] Award in 2005. He is a multiple [[honorary degree]] recipient from [[Boston University]] (1998), [[Yeshiva University]] (2001), the [[University of Basel]] (2006) and [[Bar-Ilan University]] (2021) . Cohn has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the [[Chicago International Film Festival]] (1992), the [[Shanghai International Film Festival]] (1999), as well as from the International Film Festivals in Jerusalem (1995) and Haifa (2016).

Cohn divides his time between Basel and Los Angeles and is regarded as a hands-on producer who is strongly involved with the development of the script until the final touches of the editing process. For decades he was assisted by Lillian Birnbaum (Paris) and Pierre Rothschild (Zurich). Arthur Cohn's films have been shown at many retrospectives around the world.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004453/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm Arthur Cohn – Biography<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

His best-known [[fictional film]] is ''[[The Garden of the Finzi-Continis]]'' (1970, directed by [[Vittorio De Sica]]). He also produced films by [[Kevin Macdonald (director)|Kevin Macdonald]] (''[[One Day in September]]'') and [[Walter Salles]] (''[[Central Station (film)|Central Station]]'', ''[[Behind the Sun (film)|Behind the Sun]]'').

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Film
! Notes
|-
| 1961 || ''[[Sky Above and Mud Beneath]]'' (''Le Ciel et la Boue'') || Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary Feature
|-
| 1964 || ''Paris Secret'' ||  Documentary Feature
|-
| 1967 || ''[[Woman Times Seven]]'' || starring [[Shirley MacLaine]] and [[Peter Sellers]]
|-
| 1968 || ''[[A Place for Lovers]]'' (''Amanti'') || starring [[Faye Dunaway]] and [[Marcello Mastroianni]]
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1970 || ''[[Sunflower (1970 film)|Sunflower]]'' (''I Girasoli'') ||starring [[Sophia Loren]] and [[Marcello Mastroianni]]
|-
| ''[[The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (film)|The Garden of the Finzi-Continis]]'' (''Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini'') || Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film
|-
| 1972 || ''[[We'll Call Him Andrew]]'' (''Lo chiameremo Andrea'') || starring [[Nino Manfredi]]
|-
| 1973 || ''[[A Brief Vacation]]'' (''Una breve vacanza'') || [[David di Donatello]] Award Winner
|-
| 1976 || ''[[Black and White in Color]]'' (''Noir et Blanc en Couleur'') || Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film
|-
| 1979 || ''Adoption'' (''L'adoption'') || starring [[Geraldine Chaplin]]
|-
| 1981 || ''[[The Yellow Star – The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45]]'' (''Der Gelbe Stern'') || Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature
|-
| rowspan=2 |1984 || ''[[Love on the Ground]]'' (''L'Amour par Terre'') || starring [[Jane Birkin]] and [[Geraldine Chaplin]]
|-
| ''[[Dangerous Moves]]'' (''La Diagonale du Fou'') || Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film
|-
| 1990 || ''[[American Dream (film)|American Dream]]'' || Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary Feature
|-
| 1991 || ''November Days'' || Documentary Feature
|-
| 1995 || ''[[Two Bits]]'' || starring [[Al Pacino]]
|-
| 1997 || ''White Lies'' || starring [[Rosanna Arquette]] and [[Harvey Fierstein]]
|-
| 1998 || ''[[Central Station (film)|Central Station]]'' (''Central do Brasil'') || Academy Award Nominee and [[Golden Globe]] Winner for Best Foreign Language Film
|-
| rowspan = 2 | 1999 || ''Children of the Night'' || Documentary Short with rare footage of Children in the [[Holocaust]]
|-
| ''[[One Day in September]]'' || Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary Feature
|-
| 2001 || ''[[Behind the Sun (film)|Behind the Sun]]'' (''Abril Despedaçado'') || [[Golden Globe]] Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film
|-
| 2004 || ''[[The Chorus (2004 film)|The Chorus]]'' (''Les Choristes'') || Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and for Best Music
|-
| rowspan=2 | 2008 || ''[[The Yellow Handkerchief (2010 film)|The Yellow Handkerchief]]'' || starring [[William Hurt]], [[Maria Bello]], [[Eddie Redmayne]] and [[Kristen Stewart]]
|-
| ''[[The Children of Huang Shi]]'' || starring [[Jonathan Rhys Meyers]], [[Radha Mitchell]] and [[Chow Yun-Fat]]
|-
| 2009 || ''Feathered Fan and Silken Ribbon'' || Documentary Feature
|-
| 2012 || ''[[Russian Disco]]'' || based on [[Wladimir Kaminer]]'s acclaimed book
|-
| 2018 || ''The Etruscan Smile'' || starring [[Brian Cox (actor)|Brian Cox]], [[Rosanna Arquette]], [[Thora Birch]] and [[JJ Feild]]
|-
|}

==References==
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==External links==
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