Arthur Cohn

This article is about the film producer. For the mathematician, see Arthur Cohn (mathematician).

Arthur Cohn
File:Arthur Cohn.jpg Arthur Cohn in Basel
Born	(1927-02-04) February 4, 1927 Basel, Switzerland
Occupation	film producer

Arthur Cohn (born February 4, 1927 in Basel, Switzerland) is a film producer.

Biography

Cohn was born to a Jewish family, the son of Marcus Cohn, a lawyer and leader of the Swiss religious 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 grandfather, Arthur Cohn, was the chief rabbi of Basel.

Six of his films have won the Academy Award. He 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) and the University of Basel (2006). For decades he worked with Lilian Birnbaum (Paris) and Pierre Rothschild (Zurich).

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 (One Day in September) and Walter Salles (Central Station, Behind the Sun).

Filmography

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
1970	Sunflower (I Girasoli)	starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni
	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
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	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 (Central do Brasil)	Academy Award Nominee and Golden Globe Winner for Best Foreign Language Film
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 (Abril Despedaçado)	Golden Globe Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film
2004	The Chorus (Les Choristes)	Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and for Best Music
2008	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 (Russendisko)	based on Wladimir Kaminer's acclaimed book

External links

• Publications by and about Arthur Cohn in the catalogue Helveticat of the Swiss National Library
• Arthur Cohn at the Internet Movie Database