awarded a total of nine oscars including for best director. he's out to your majesty. luci was a key figure in the italian new way his directorial career took off in one thousand nine hundred seventy with the conformist about a weak willed man who becomes a fascist. the movie was informed by the directors left wing politics. his controversial nine hundred seventy two movie last tango in paris about an affair between a young french woman and an older american starring maria schneider and marlon