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Nastro D'Argento For Best Director
The ''Nastro d'Argento'' (Silver Ribbon) for Best Director () is a film award bestowed annually as part of the Nastro d'Argento awards since 1946, organized by the Italian National Association of Film Journalists (''Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani'' or SNGCI), the national association of Italian film critics. This is the list of Nastro d'Argento awards for Best Director. Federico Fellini is the record holder with seven Nastro d'Argento awards for Best Director received from 1954 to 1984 (also the only one awarded in two consecutive editions, in 1954 in 1955 for the films ''I vitelloni'' and ''La Strada''), followed by Luchino Visconti, Gianni Amelio and Giuseppe Tornatore, with four awards each. 1940s *1946 ** Alessandro Blasetti - '' Un giorno nella vita'' ** Vittorio De Sica - '' Shoeshine'' *1947 - Roberto Rossellini - '' Paisan'' *1948 ** Alberto Lattuada - '' Flesh Will Surrender'' ** Giuseppe De Santis - '' Tragic Hunt'' *1949 - Vittorio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nastro D'Argento
The (plural: ''Nastri d'Argento''; English: Silver Ribbon) is an Italian film award, held since 1946 by the ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani'' (Italian National Union of Film Journalists). Awards are given annually in a wide range of categories, covering not only feature films but also short films (''Corti d'argento'') and television series (''Nastri d'Argento Grandi Serie''). The main awards are given at Taormina Film Fest, Sicily, while the short film awards ceremony is held in Naples. History The Nastri d'Argento awards, which are also known by their name in English, Silver Ribbons, have been given each year since 1946 by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists (Italian: ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani''). From 1950, the main award was Best Director, with no award given for Best Film until sometime after 1991. This is because it was assumed that the best director made the best film. This was different from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe De Santis
Giuseppe De Santis (11 February 1917 – 16 May 1997) was an Italian film director. One of the most idealistic neorealist filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s, he wrote and directed films punctuated by ardent cries for social reform. He was the brother of Italian cinematographer Pasqualino De Santis. His wife was Gordana Miletic (native spelling: Miletić), a Yugoslav actress and former ballet dancer. Biography De Santis was born in Fondi, Lazio. He was a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and fought with the anti-German Resistance in Rome during World War II. He was first a student of philosophy and literature before entering Rome's Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. While working as a journalist for ''Cinema'' magazine, De Santis became, under the influence of Cesare Zavattini, a major proponent of the early neorealist filmmakers who were trying to make films that mirrored the simple and tragic realities of proletarian life using location shooting and n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Amiche
''Le amiche'' (, lit. "The girlfriends") is a 1955 Italian drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, and Valentina Cortese. Based on Cesare Pavese's 1949 novella ''Tra donne sole'' (lit. "Among women only" or "Among single women"), ''Le amiche'' portrays a group of five upper-class women in Turin and their various relationships with men. It premiered at the 16th Venice International Film Festival, where it was awarded the Silver Lion. Plot Clelia returns from Rome to her native city Turin, assigned to supervise the opening of a branch of the Roman fashion salon where she previously has been working. By coincidence, she is confronted with the suicide attempt of a young woman named Rosetta and gets acquainted with her circle of Turin socialites. The group includes the coquettish Mariella, Momina, who lives separated from her husband and has changing affairs, and successful ceramics artist Nene, who lives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni ( ; ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and editor. He is best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents", ''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and ''L'Eclisse'' (1962); the English-language film ''Blowup'' (1966); and the multilingual '' The Passenger (1975 film), The Passenger'' (1975). His films have been described as "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" that feature elusive plots, striking composition (visual arts), visual composition, and a preoccupation with modern landscapes. His work substantially influenced subsequent world art cinema. Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, being the first and one of two directors, the other being Jafar Panahi, to have won the Palme d'Or, the Golden Lion, the Golden Bear and the Golden Leopard. Three of his films are on the list of A hundred Italian films to be saved, hundred Italian films to be saved. He rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Strada
''La Strada'', also translated into English as ''The Road'', is a 1954 Italian Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Federico Fellini and co-written by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano. The film tells the story of Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina), a simple-minded young woman bought from her mother by Zampanò (Anthony Quinn), a brutish strongman who takes her with him on the road. Fellini described ''La Strada'' as "a complete catalogue of my entire mythological world, a dangerous representation of my identity that was undertaken with no precedent whatsoever". As a result, the film demanded more time and effort than any of his other works, before or later. The development process was long and tortuous; there were problems during production, including insecure financial backing, problematic casting, and numerous delays. Finally, just before the production completed shooting, Fellini suffered a nervous breakdown that required medical treatment so that he could co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Vitelloni
''I Vitelloni'' (, "The Bullocks"; Romagnol slang for "The Slackers" or "The Layabouts") is a 1953 Italian comedy drama film directed by Federico Fellini from a screenplay written by himself, Ennio Flaiano, and Tullio Pinelli. It stars Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, and Riccardo Fellini (the director's brother) as five young Italian men at crucial turning points in their small-town lives. Recognized as a pivotal work in Fellini's artistic evolution, the film has distinct autobiographical elements that mirror important societal changes in 1950s Italy.Kezich, 130 Recipient of both the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion in 1953 and an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing in 1958, the film was also Fellini's first commercial success. In 2008, it was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The City Stands Trial
''The City Stands Trial'' () is a 1952 Italian crime film, crime drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Silvana Pampanini and Paolo Stoppa. It is based on a revisiting of the Cuocolo Trial, Cuocolo murders and the struggle for control of Naples by the Camorra in the early 1900s. It is considered to be Zampa's most accomplished film.Moliterno, '' The A to Z of Italian Cinema''p. 342/ref> It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome and on location in Naples. It was entered into the 3rd Berlin International Film Festival. Synopsis In Naples at the beginning of the twentieth century a double murder of husband and wife appears to be the work of the Camorra. A crusading young judge takes on the case but faces a number of threats and obstacles, and his investigation turns much of the population against him. Cast * Amedeo Nazzari as Judge Spicacci * Silvana Pampanini as Liliana Ferrari * Paolo Stoppa as Perrone * Dante Maggio as Armando Capezzuto * Franco Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Zampa
Luigi Zampa (2 January 1905 – 16 August 1991) was an Italian film director. Biography Son of a worker, Zampa studied filmmaking from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school in Rome. He directed several Italian neorealism films in the 1940s. In 1949 he filmed ''Alarm Bells'' on Ischia, and also shot a separate British version under the title ''Children of Chance (1949 film), Children of Chance''. During the 1950s and 1960s, he became a director of several successful films belonging to the Commedia all'italiana genre, some starring Alberto Sordi. Filmography as director *1933 Risveglio di una città *1941 *1942 C'è sempre un ma! *1942 The Adventures of Fra Diavolo (''Fra' Diavolo'') *1942 Signorinette *1945 L'abito nero da sposa *1946 A Yank in Rome (''Un Americano in vacanza'') *1947 To Live in Peace (''Vivere in pace'') *1947 L'onorevole Angelina *1948 Difficult Years (''Anni difficili'') *1949 ''Alarm Bells (film), Alarm Bells'' (Campane a martello) *1949 Childre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Cents Worth Of Hope
''Two Cents Worth of Hope'' () is a 1952 film directed by Renato Castellani. It is the third part of Castellani's ''Young Love'' trilogy, following '' Sotto il sole di Roma'' (1948) and '' È primavera...''(1950). It shared the Grand Prix prize with ''Othello'' at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." Plot A twenty-year-old man named Antonio Catalano returns to his fictional hometown of Cusano in Irpinia after completing military service. Unemployed, he must support his widowed mother, deal with her gambling addiction, and care for his five sisters of various ages. Despite romantic attention from Carmela, a strong and beautiful girl, financial difficulties prevent them from planning marriage, especially since Carmela's father refuses to help. Antonio takes on odd jobs to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renato Castellani
Renato Castellani (4 September 1913 – 28 December 1985) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Early life Son of a representative of Kodak, he was born in Varigotti, at the time a hamlet of Final Pia, which became Finale Ligure ( Savona) in 1927, where his mother had returned from Argentina to give birth to his son. He spent his childhood in Argentina, in the city of Rosario. After 12 years, he returned to Liguria and resumed his studies in Genoa. He moved to Milan, where he graduated from the Polytechnic University in architecture. In Milan he met Livio Castiglioni and together they aired for GUF (Fascist University Group) ''L'ora radiofonica'' and ''La fontana malata'' by Aldo Palazzeschi, experimenting with new techniques for sound editing on radio. Career He began collaborating in 1936 as a military consultant for '' The Great Appeal'', a film by Mario Camerini. He worked as a film critic and worked - as a screenwriter or assistant director - with import ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Father's Dilemma
''Father's Dilemma'' () is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti. It won an award at the Venice Film Festival. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." Details * The voice of the narrator is Alberto Sordi. When Sordi worked on the film he had just finished dubbing the '' Atoll K'' with main characters Laurel and Hardy. * Various sequences of the Italian neo-realist film ''Prima Comunione'' were filmed on the exterior double stair of the Church of Santi Domenico e Sisto, the university church of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, ''Angelicum''. * ''Prima comunione'' has been put on the list of the '' 100 Italian films to be saved''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heaven Over The Marshes
''Heaven over the Marshes'' (Italian language, Italian: ''Cielo sulla palude'') is a 1949 Italian Historical drama, historical melodrama film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Rubi Dalma, Michele Malaspina, Inés Orsini and Domenico Viglione Borghese. The film portrays the life of the saint Maria Goretti. Augusto Genina was awarded the Nastro d'Argento for Best Director for the film. In 2008, the film was included on the Ministry of Culture (Italy), Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 film italiani da salvare, 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978". The film's sets were designed by Virgilio Marchi. Cast * Rubi D'Alma as La contessa Teneroni * Michele Malaspina as Il conte * Domenico Viglione Borghese as Il dottore * Inés Orsini as Maria Goretti * Assunta Radico as Assunta Goretti - La madre di Maria * Giovanni Martella as Luigi Goretti - il padre di Maria * Mauro Matteuc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
