Overview
- Cohn died Friday in Jerusalem at age 98, his family announced.
- He produced The Garden of the Finzi-Continis with Vittorio De Sica, whose ending he urged the director to change before the film won the foreign-language Oscar.
- His productions earned Academy Awards across features and documentaries, including Black and White in Color, Dangerous Moves, Sky Above and Mud Beneath, American Dream and One Day in September.
- He was the first non-American producer with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and received France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, a National Board of Review Humanitarian Award and multiple festival lifetime honors.
- Born in Basel in 1927, he began as a radio journalist; he is survived by his wife Naomi Cohn-Shapiro, his brother Gabriel, five children and eight grandchildren.