Gabriel Axel

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FILE - In this Monday, April 12, 1988 file photo, Gabriel Axel gestures backstage at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles after winning an Oscar for Best Foreign Language at the Academy Awards. Gabriel Axel, the first Dane to win an Oscar for best foreign film as of "Babette's Feast," has died at the age of 95. His daughter Karin Moerch said in an email statement acquired by The Associated Press that he died Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014 “quietly and peacefully after a long and eventful life.” He did not say where, nor did she give the cause of death. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)