Academy Award Best Actor · birth-card coordinate
Roberto Benigni's Birth Card: The 8 of Hearts
The Emotional Powerhouse
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Academy Award.
In the record
Roberto Remigio Benigni ( bə-NEE-nyee, Italian: [roˈbɛrto beˈniɲɲi]; born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film director. The birth-card coordinate for October 27 is the 8 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1999 Best Actor — Life Is Beautiful win.
Academy Award record
- 1999 Best Actor — Life Is Beautiful
The 8 of Hearts coordinate
Roberto Benigni's birthday maps to the 8 of Hearts (The Emotional Powerhouse). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on Roberto Benigni. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold the emotional room without taking it over. People know where they stand.
Roberto Benigni in the public record
He gained international recognition for writing, directing, and starring in the Holocaust comedy drama film Life Is Beautiful (1997), for which he received the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best International Feature Film. Benigni is the first, and only, recipient of an Academy Award for Best Actor for a non-English language performance. Benigni made his acting debut in 1977's Berlinguer, I Love You, which he also wrote, and which was directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci. Benigni's directorial debut was the 1983 anthology film Tu mi turbi, which was also the acting debut of his wife, Nicoletta Braschi. He continued directing and also starring in the comedic films Nothing Left to Do But Cry (1984), The Little Devil (1988), Johnny Stecchino (1991), The Monster (1994), the award-winning film Life Is Beautiful (1997), Pinocchio (2002, as the title character), and The Tiger and the Snow (2005). Benigni acted in the Jim Jarmusch films Down by Law (1986), Night on Earth (1991), and Coffee and Cigarettes (2003). He also acted in Federico Fellini's The Voice of the Moon (1990), Blake Edwards' Son of the Pink Panther (1993), Woody Allen's To Rome with Love (2012), and Matteo Garrone's Pinocchio (2019, as Geppetto).
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Roberto Benigni (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Ace of Clubs
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Roberto Benigni, and not a forecast of an Oscar.
Cards in Roberto Benigni's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 8♥ — Birth Card: The Emotional Powerhouse
- 7♥ — Karma — Environment: The Reflective Heart
- 7♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Questioning Mind
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 8♦ — Life Spread — Saturn
- K♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 3♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- Q♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- Q♥ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Devoted Nurturer
- A♣ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Creative Pioneer
- 9♣ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Humanitarian Builder
- 10♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Completed Mind
- 5♣ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Dynamic Innovator
- 3♦ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Success Communicator
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Original thinking and idea generation
Benigni made his acting debut in 1977's Berlinguer, I Love You, which he also wrote, and which was directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: wrote.
Other winners with this card
- Fredric March — 1933 Best Actor — Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; 1947 Best Actor — The Best Years of Our Lives
- Greer Garson — 1943 Best Actress — Mrs. Miniver
FAQ
- What is Roberto Benigni's birth card?
- The 8 of Hearts. October 27 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict an Oscar?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Roberto Benigni's dates come from?
- Birth date 1952-10-27 is the day-precision date on Roberto Benigni's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Oscars.org (AMPAS ceremony record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Best Actor list, Best Actress list, Roberto Benigni) + Wikidata CC0 (Q23301). Birth date 1952-10-27 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).