His spaghetti western's Oscar nominations include nods for best film and best picture.

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It is a tribute to the spaghetti Western, cooked al dente, then cooked a while more, and finally sauced to death.

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All the over-the-top action and melodrama is so much more fun when you view the whole thing as a Spaghetti Western, or a Dirty Harry movie.

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The cast includes Don Johnson and, in a cameo, Franco Nero, who played a coffin-dragging drifter named Django in an old spaghetti western of the same name.

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This is country where the local scrub of wild olive, thyme and holm oak give it a Spaghetti-Western feel.

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Instead, their friendship began four years ago when Mr. Burton asked Ms. Jones and Jack White to sing on "Rome, " his spaghetti-western soundtrack with composer Daniele Luppi.

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The 46 year-old director transformed the WWII wartime-thriller-cum-spaghetti-western from script to finished product in just eight months, he told CNN's The Screening Room, so that it would be ready to show at the prestigious film festival.

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