Arthur Cohn Movies and Career Information

Arthur Cohn (born February 4, 1927 in Basel, Switzerland) is a film producer. Four of his films have won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, and he was awarded the Guardian of Zion Award in 2004. One of the awards was for French film Black and White in Color (1976) as producer. His best-known non-documentary film is Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini (1970, directed by Vittorio De Sica). His most recent film as producer is The Yellow Handkerchief (2008). He also produced films by Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September) and Walter Salles (Central do Brasil, Abril Despedaçado).