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Academy Award for Best Film Editing: Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes 1937 Basil Wrangell The Good Earth: Nominated Wrangell was an Italian born-American film editor. 1987 Gabriella Cristiani: The Last Emperor: Won 1991 Pietro Scalia: JFK: Won 1997 Good Will Hunting: Nominated Simona Paggi: Life Is Beautiful: Nominated (original title ...
Ruggero Deodato (Italian pronunciation: [rudˈdʒɛːro de.oˈda.to]; 7 May 1939 – 29 December 2022) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor.. His career spanned a wide-range of genres including peplum, comedy, drama, poliziottesco, and science fiction, yet he is perhaps best known for directing violent and gory horror films with strong elements of realism.
Italian director Paolo Taviani, who with his late brother Vittorio formed the revered filmmaking duo that in 1977 won the Cannes Palme d’Or for “Padre Padrone,” has died at 92. Taviani died ...
Roberto Remigio Benigni Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI [1] (/ b ə ˈ n iː n i /; Italian: [roˈbɛrto beˈniɲɲi]; born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. He gained international recognition for writing, directing and starring in the Holocaust comedy drama film Life Is Beautiful (1997), for which he ...
Agostino "Dino" De Laurentiis (Italian: [ˈdiːno de lauˈrɛnti.is]; 8 August 1919 – 10 November 2010) was an Italian film producer and businessman who held both Italian and American citizenship. Following a brief acting career in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he moved into film production; alongside Carlo Ponti , he brought Italian cinema ...
Bernardo Bertolucci OMRI (/ ˌ b ɜːr t ə ˈ l uː tʃ i / BUR-tə-LOO-chee; Italian: [berˈnardo bertoˈluttʃi]; 16 March 1941 – 26 November 2018) was an Italian film director and screenwriter with a career that spanned 50 years.
Paolo Sorrentino (/ s ɒr ən ˈ t iː n oʊ /; Italian: [ˈpaːolo sorrenˈtiːno]; born 31 May 1970) [1] is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and writer. He is considered one of the most prominent filmmakers of Italian cinema working today.
La strada (The Road) is a 1954 Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini and co-written by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano.The film tells the story of Gelsomina, a simple-minded young woman (Giulietta Masina) bought from her mother by Zampanò (Anthony Quinn), a brutish strongman who takes her with him on the road.