1 In 1998 ROBERTO BEGNINI (who won Best Actor and Best Foreign Film awards as the writer/director/star of  Life is Beautiful ) became only the second person to have won an Oscar for acting in a foreign language film.
Major League Baseball games are still getting longer â a slow drip that figures to increase the likelihood strong action will be taken to curtail the trend. After another slate of nine-inning odysseys on Monday, the average time of game has hit 3 hours, 5 minutes, which would be an all-time high by three minutes for a full season, and a 3% increase from 2016âs average nine-inning game - an even 3 hours. 1  Including extra-inning games, the average game time is 3 hours, 9 minutes. Both numbers trump all-time highs of 3:02 and 3:07, both set in 2014, according to data gathered by Baseball-Reference. As the weather warms and home runs â also headed for an all-time high â continue flying out of the park, games are getting longer.
Major League Baseball is vowing to shorten the average length of its games. Officials have other ideas in mind in an effort to move things along. Last year's ave â¦ rage was 2 hours and 54 minutes. Under the theory that most baseball games should not last longer than Ben-Hur, action is being taken.