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Vittorio De Sica
Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
Vittorio De Sica (7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement. Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards…
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Vittorio De Sica (7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement. Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: Sciuscià and Bicycle Thieves (honorary), while Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and Il giardino dei Finzi Contini won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Indeed, the great critical success of Sciuscià (the first foreign film to be so recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) and Bicycle Thieves helped establish the permanent Best Foreign Film Award. These two films are considered part of the canon of classic cinema. Bicycle Thieves was cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the 15 most influential films in cinema history. De Sica was also nominated for the 1957 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor's 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, a movie that was panned by critics and proved a box office flop. De Sica's acting was considered the highlight of the film.
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2026
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
Movie Self (Archive Footage)
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2025
Quelli che il cinema
TV show Self
- 2022
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2022
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
We Are Cinema
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2010
1960
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
Vittorio D.
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2007
The Sons of His Mistress
Movie Author
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2007
Working with De Sica
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2005
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2004
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Movie (archive footage)
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2003
Cesare Zavattini
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2001
That's Life: Vittorio De Sica
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1985
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Movie Self
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1980
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1975
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
Movie (archive footage)
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1974
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1974
Blood for Dracula
Movie Marquis Di Fiore
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1974
The Voyage
Movie Director
- 1973
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1973
The Assassination of Matteotti
Movie Mauro Del Giudice
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1973
A Brief Vacation
Movie Director
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1973
Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
Movie Maresciallo Cenciarelli
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1973
The Small Miracle
Movie Father Damico
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1972
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Movie giudice
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1972
We'll Call Him Andrea
Movie Director
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1972
The Adventures of Pinocchio
TV show Giudice
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1972
Scandal Man
Movie Milord
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1972
Snow Job
Movie Enrico Dolphi
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1972
Hector the Mighty
Movie Giove
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1971
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Movie Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
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1971
Trastevere
Movie Enrico Formichi
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1971
Birth of the Republic
TV show Director
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1971
I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
Movie Player in Venice casino
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1971
Mafia Things
Movie Don Michele
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1971
Samedi soir
TV show Self
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1970
The Couples
Movie Director
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1970
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
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