TORONTO – While it may be true that no country has won more Best Foreign Picture Oscars than Italy, only one Italian filmmaker took home a statuette at the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday. The Bologna-born Valentina Merli was a co-winner for Best Live Action Short Film, for her short titled Two People Exchanging Saliva. The category produced a tie, for the seventh time in the Oscars’ 100-year history, with the American short musical comedy The Singers…
