Branko Lustig, Holocaust survivor and two-time best picture winner of Stephen Spielberg’s Schindler’s List and Ridley Scott’s Gladiator died yesterday, aged 87, at home in Croatia.
Lustig, born to Croatian-Jewish family in Osijek, Slavonia, is only Croatian-born filmmaker to receive two Academy awards for his work.

Lustig started his career in film industry in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1950s working for the likes of Norman Jewison, Volker Schlöndorff and Alan J. Pakula. Most recently he worked as an executive producer on American Gangster, A Good Year, Kingdom of Heaven, Black Hawk Down and Hannibal.

He has been recipent of numerous awards for his work in film in his native Croatia.