10 Directors Who Completely Ruined Their Careers With One Movie
7. Roberto Benigni
The Killer Movie: Pinocchio For a while back in 1999, you couldn't get moved for mentions of Roberto Benigni: he'd just picked up Oscars for Best Actor (wrongly) and Best Foreign Language Film (possibly rightly, but it's up for debate) and turned a lot of heads for his over-excited antics at the ceremony. And then, five years later he decided to make a live-action version of Pinocchio, and star as the wooden puppet boy himself, despite being 50 years old. What could possibly go wrong? It had worked for Disney after all... Despite the enduring appeal of the story, Pinocchio was a vanity project - the worst kind of self-indulgence - and it rightly went on to pick up a massive six nominations at the year's Razzies. Italians seemed to love it more, awarding a couple of awards for the original version, but that doesn't hide the fact that the film was an unmitigated disaster and spelled the end for Benigni as a director, albeit aside for The Tiger And The Snow in 2005, which turned over no stones.
The Killer Movie: Pinocchio For a while back in 1999, you couldn't get moved for mentions of Roberto Benigni: he'd just picked up Oscars for Best Actor (wrongly) and Best Foreign Language Film (possibly rightly, but it's up for debate) and turned a lot of heads for his over-excited antics at the ceremony. And then, five years later he decided to make a live-action version of Pinocchio, and star as the wooden puppet boy himself, despite being 50 years old. What could possibly go wrong? It had worked for Disney after all... Despite the enduring appeal of the story, Pinocchio was a vanity project - the worst kind of self-indulgence - and it rightly went on to pick up a massive six nominations at the year's Razzies. Italians seemed to love it more, awarding a couple of awards for the original version, but that doesn't hide the fact that the film was an unmitigated disaster and spelled the end for Benigni as a director, albeit aside for The Tiger And The Snow in 2005, which turned over no stones.