Luigi Gervasi was nominated for a Best Art Direction Academy Award for a film based on a play by what playwriter?
The Taming of the Shrew (1967 film) The Taming of the Shrew (Italian: "La Bisbetica domata" ) is a 1967 film based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare about a courtship between two strong-willed people. The film was directed by Franco Zeffirelli and stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as Shakespeare's Kate and Petruchio.
Luigi Pirandello Luigi Pirandello (] ; Girgenti,today known as Agrigento, 28 June 1867 – Rome 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre."