Arthur Cohn is the only independent producer to have won six Oscars, the most recent won last year by the documentary One Day in September, a reconstruction of the Palestinian attack on the Munich Olympics in 1972. Cohn produced the last five films of Vittorio de Sica, whom he considers his teacher and mentor. One of these films, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, won the Golden Bear in Berlin and the Oscar for Best Foreign Film of 1970. The other titles produced by Cohn which won Oscars are Black and White In Color, by Jean-Jacques Annaud (1976); American Dream, by Barbara Kopple (1990); Dangerous Moves, by Richard Dembo (1984); and Sky Above, Mud Below, by Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau (1960). With Behind the Sun, Arthur Cohn continues a partnership with the Brazilian director Walter Salles that began with Central Station.       back Top