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Michelangelo Antonioni
Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer. Best…
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Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer. Best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents" — L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962), as well as the English-language Blowup (1966), Antonioni "redefined the concept of narrative cinema" and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large. He produced "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" and rejected action in favor of contemplation, focusing on image and design over character and story. His films defined a "cinema of possibilities". Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize (1960, 1962), Palme d'Or (1966), and 35th Anniversary Prize (1982); the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion (1955), Golden Lion (1964), FIPRESCI Prize (1964, 1995), and Pietro Bianchi Award (1998); the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon eight times; and an honorary Academy Award in 1995. He is one of three directors to have won the Palme d'Or, the Golden Lion and the Golden Bear, and the only director to have won these three and the Golden Leopard.
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2018
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
Movie Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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2017
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2012
Close Up
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
Wandering Heart
Movie Self
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2008
Palermo Shooting
Movie In Memory Of
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2008
Antonioni su Antonioni
Movie Himself
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2008
Back to Room 666
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2008
Sweet Ruin
Movie Screenplay
- 2007
- 2006
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2004
Eros
Movie Director
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2004
Michelangelo Eye to Eye
Movie Self
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2004
Words in Progress
Movie
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2002
Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2001
Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1997
Sicily
Movie Director
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1995
Beyond the Clouds
Movie Director
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1995
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
Movie Self (uncredited)
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1995
Dear Antonioni
Movie Self
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1993
Noto, Almond Trees, Volcano, Stromboli, Carnival
Movie Director
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1992
Kumbha Mela
Movie Director
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1990
Un po' di Giappone
Movie Self (uncredited)
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1989
12 Directors for 12 Cities
Movie Director
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1989
Roma
Movie Director
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1985
Room 666
Movie Self
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1985
Antonioni, la dernière séquence
Movie himself
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1984
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Movie Self
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1984
Gianna Nannini: Fotoromanza
Movie Director
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1983
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
Movie Director
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1982
Identification of a Woman
Movie Director
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1981
The Mystery of Oberwald
Movie Writer
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1978
Ciné regards
TV show Self
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1978
Antonioni visto da Antonioni
Movie Self
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1975
The Passenger
Movie Director
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1972
Chung Kuo: China
Movie Director
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1972
Chung Kuo-Cina
TV show Director
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1970
Zabriskie Point
Movie Director
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1968
Underground New York
Movie Self
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1967
Cinéma et Réalité
Movie Self
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1966
Blow-Up
Movie Screenplay
