Biography
Federico Fellini, Knight Grand Cross (January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993), was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century. Personal and highly idiosyncratic visions of society, Fellini's films are a unique combination of memory, dreams, fantasy, surrealism and desire. The adjectives "Fellinian" and "Felliniesque" are "synonymous with any kind of extravagant, fanciful, even baroque image in the cinema and in art in general". In a career spanning almost fifty years, Fellini won the Palme d'Or for La Dolce Vita, was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, and directed four motion pictures that won Oscars in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. In 1993, he was awarded an honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement at the 65th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
Awards & recognition
- Academy Honorary Award · 1991
- Praemium Imperiale · 1990
- European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award · 1989
- Academy Award — Best International Feature Film · 1957
- Silver Lion · 1953
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- BAFTA Award — Best Production Design
- Blue Ribbon Awards — Best Foreign Film
- Bodil Awards
- Commander of the Legion of Honour
- David di Donatello — Best Original Script
- David di Donatello — Best Director
- David di Donatello Luchino Visconti
- David René Clair
- Directors Guild of America
- Film at Lincoln Center
- French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Awards
- Golden Lion — Lifetime Achievement
- Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards 1966
- Kinema Junpo
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Moscow International Film Festival awards
- Nastro d'Argento — Best Screenplay
- Nastro d'Argento — the director of the best film
- Nastro d'Argento — Best Subject
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- Palme d'Or
- Sant Jordi Prize
- SESC Film Festival
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1977 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Original Screenplay · 1976 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1976 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1971 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1964 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Original Screenplay · 1964 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1962 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Original Screenplay · 1962 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Original Screenplay · 1958 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Original Screenplay · 1957 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Original Screenplay · 1950 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1947 · nominated
Filmography28 titles
We All Loved Each Other So Much
8½
La Dolce Vita
Nights of Cabiria
Rome, Open City
Amarcord
La Strada
I Vitelloni
Paisan
The Swindle
The Ship Sails On
Ciao, Federico!
Juliet of the Spirits
The Flowers of St. Francis
Ginger & Fred
City of Women
Sweet Charity
Boccaccio '70
Variety Lights
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Intervista
The Dick Cavett Show
The Voice of the Moon
Love
Orchestra Rehearsal
Love in the City
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
Spirits of the Dead