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Arthur Cohn, Producer of Oscar-Winning Movies Including ‘Garden of the Finzi-Continis,’ Dies at 98
Arthur Cohn won six Academy Awards for films including The Garden of the Finzi-Continis and Black and White in Color, honored by multiple international film festivals.
- Arthur Cohn, the Swiss film producer, died Friday in Jerusalem, his family announced in an obituary seen by the Swiss News Agency Keystone-SDA.
- Arthur Cohn began his career as a reporter for Swiss Radio and worked on Echo der Zeit before moving from screenwriting into producing.
- Among his notable productions was The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Black and White in Color, Dangerous Moves, and Oscar-winning documentaries like Sky Above and Mud Beneath, American Dream, and One Day in September.
- Survivors include his wife Naomi Cohn-Shapiro, brother Gabriel, children Nurith, Marcus, Amy, Emanuel and Naomi, and eight grandchildren; a funeral service in Jerusalem streams on YouTube at 9 p.m. Saturday.
- Cohn's legacy includes six Oscars, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, three honorary doctorates including one from the University of Basel, and lifetime awards from Chicago, Shanghai, Jerusalem and Haifa.
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Arthur Cohn, Jewish film producer and six-time Oscar winner, dies at 98
Swiss-born producer Arthur Cohn, who made nearly 30 films and won six Oscars, died in Jerusalem at 98; a Hollywood power in the 1970s, he later became the first non-American producer to receive a star on the Walk of Fame
·Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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The Swiss film producer and multiple Oscar winner Arthur Cohn is dead. He died 98 years old in Jerusalem. In 2019 he was awarded for his life's work at the Berlinale.
·Hamburg, Germany
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He was one of the most successful film producers in the world. In 2024 the Oscar Prize winner worked on a new project. Now he died in Jerusalem.
·Frankfurt, Germany
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news38.deGreat sadness in the film world! Hollywood legend Arthur Cohn died at the age of 98 years.
·Germany
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