Mario Cecchi Gori
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Gabriele Salvatores' film ''Mediterraneo'' won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
With ''Lamerica'', directed by Gianni Amelio, he received the Best Film Award at European Film Awards in 1994.
''Il Postino: The Postman'' (1995, directed by Michael Radford) was the first Italian film to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Film.
From 1990 to his death, he was the president of Fiorentina.
His son Vittorio Cecchi Gori is also a film producer. Provided by Wikipedia