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Franco Di Giacomo
Franco Di Giacomo (18 September 1932 – 30 April 2016) was an Italian cinematographer. Life and career Born in Amatrice, Province of Rieti, Di Giacomo started his career as assistant of Aldo Tonti. For many years he worked as an operator, notably collaborating to Joseph L. Mankiewicz's ''Cleopatra'', Vittorio De Sica's ''Marriage Italian Style'' and Sergio Leone's ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' and '' Once Upon a Time in the West''. Di Giacomo made his debut as a cinematographer in 1970, with Salvatore Samperi's '' Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It''. In 1983, he won the David di Donatello for Best Cinematography for Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's '' The Night of the Shooting Stars''. He also worked, among others, with Nanni Moretti, Ettore Scola, Marco Bellocchio, Michael Radford, Bernardo Bertolucci, Dino Risi, Nikita Mikhalkov and Mario Monicelli. In 2000, Di Giacomo received a Flaiano Prize for his career. In his late years, he was professor of cinematography at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amatrice
Amatrice (; Sabino: ) is a town and ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Rieti, in the Italian region of Lazio, and the center of the food-agricultural area of Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park. The town was devastated by a powerful earthquake on 24 August 2016. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ('The most beautiful villages of Italy'). History Archaeological discoveries show a human presence in the area of Amatrice since prehistoric times, and the remains of Roman buildings and tombs have also been found. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the area became part of the Lombard Duchy of Spoleto, included in the comitatus of Ascoli. The town of Matrice is mentioned in the papers of the Farfa Abbey in 1012 as commanding the confluence of the Tronto and Castellano rivers. In the year 900 the pope was from Amatrice. The medieval and early modern periods In 1265, during the reign of Manfred of Sicily, Amatrice became part of the Kingdom of Naple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Di Donatello For Best Cinematography
The David di Donatello for Best Cinematography () is a film award presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, ''Academy of Italian Cinema'') to recognize outstanding efforts on the part of cinematographers who have worked within the Italian film industry during the year preceding the ceremony. The award was first given in 1981. Luca Bigazzi is the record holder with seven awards in the category. Winners and nominees Winners are indicated in bold. 1980s 1981 * Pasqualino De Santis – '' Three Brothers'' * Tonino Delli Colli – '' Camera d'albergo'' * Ennio Guarnieri – ''The Lady of the Camellias'' 1982 * Tonino Delli Colli – ''Tales of Ordinary Madness'' * Danilo Desideri – '' Portrait of a Woman, Nude'' * Sergio D'Offizi – '' Il Marchese del Grillo'' 1983 * Franco Di Giacomo – '' The Night of the Shooting Stars'' * Armando Nannuzzi – '' That Night in Varennes'' * Carlo Di Palma – '' Identification of a Woman'' 1984 * Giuseppe Rotunno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinecittà
Cinecittà Studios (; Italian for Cinema City) is a large film studio in Rome, Italy. With an area of 400,000 square metres (99 acres), it is the largest film studio in Europe, and is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were constructed during the Fascist era as part of a plan to revive the Italian film industry and to compete with Hollywood. Filmmakers such as Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Sergio Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Mel Gibson and Luca Guadagnino have worked at Cinecittà. More than 3,000 movies have been filmed there, of which 90 received an Academy Award nomination and 47 of these won it. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made there led to Rome being dubbed " Hollywood on the Tiber." History The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini, his son Vittorio, and his head of cinema Luigi Freddi under the slogan "''Il cinema è l'arma più forte''" ("Cinema is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Sole 24 Ore
(; English: "The Sun 24 Hours") is the Italian financial newspaper of record, owned by Confindustria, the Italian employers' federation. is the leading financial daily in Italy. History and profile was first published on 9 November 1965 as a merger between ''Il Sole'' ("The Sun"), founded in 1865, and ''24 Ore'' ("24 Hours"), founded in 1933. The latter was established by young economists, including Ferdinando di Fenizio, Libero Lenti and Roberto Tremelloni, on 15 February 1933. The owner of is Confindustria. In 2006, it was reported that had Europe's highest circulation for a financial daily. has its headquarters in Milan, more precisely in Sarca Avenue 223, and is published in broadsheet format. The paper reports on business, politics, developments in commercial and labour law, corporate news and features. Extensive share and financial product listings are provided in its daily supplement, ''Finanza e Mercati''. Weekly supplements include: *''Domenica'' (Sunday) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flaiano Prize
The Premi Flaiano (English: Flaiano Prizes) are a set of Italian international awards recognizing achievements in the fields of creative writing, cinema, theatre and radio-television. Established to honour the Italian author and screenwriter Ennio Flaiano (1910–1972), the prizes have been awarded annually since 1974 at the Teatro Monumentale Gabriele D'Annunzio in Pescara, Flaiano's hometown in Abruzzo, as well as D'Annunzio's. Since 2001 the cinema section has become a true film festival, consisting of several events and film selections presented in cinemas around the town and open to the general public. The Flaiano Film Festival is one of Italy's International Film Festivals. The Festival lasts one month (between June and July of each year), with the presentation of films in competition and out of competition, allowing the participation of thousands of spectators. The festival is enriched by several smaller festivals each year and is divided into several sections for which p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Monicelli
Mario Alberto Ettore Monicelli (; 16 May 1915 – 29 November 2010) was an Italian film director and screenwriter, one of the masters of the ''commedia all'italiana'' ("Italian-style comedy"). He was nominated six times for an Academy Awards, Oscar, and received the Golden Lion for his career. Biography The early times Monicelli was born in Rome to an upper-class family from Ostiglia,. a town in the province of Mantua, in the Northern Italy, Northern Italian region of Lombardy. He was the second of the five children of Tomaso Monicelli, a journalist, and Maria Carreri, a housewife. His older half-brother, Giorgio (whose mother was actress Elisa Severi), worked as a writer and translator. An older brother, Franco, was a journalist. Monicelli was raised in Rome, Viareggio (Tuscany) and Milan.. He lived a mostly carefree youth. Many of the cinematic jokes he later shot in ''My Friends (film), My Friends'' (1975) were inspired by his own experiences during his years in Tuscany. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov (; born 21 October 1945) is a Russian filmmaker and actor. He made his directorial debut with the Red Western film ''At Home Among Strangers'' (1974) after appearing in a series of films, including the romantic comedy ''Walking the Streets of Moscow'' (1964), the war drama ''The Red and the White'' (1967), the romantic drama ''A Nest of Gentry (film), A Nest of Gentry'' (1969) and the adventure drama ''The Red Tent (film), The Red Tent'' (1969). His subsequent films include the romantic comedy-drama ''A Slave of Love'' (1976), the drama ''An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano'' (1977), the romantic drama ''Five Evenings'' (1978), the historical drama ''Siberiade'' (1979), the romantic comedy ''Station for Two'' (1983), the drama ''Without Witness'' (1983) and the romantic comedy-drama ''Dark Eyes (1987 film), Dark Eyes'' (1987). Mikhalkov then directed, co-wrote and appeared in the adventure drama film ''Close to Eden'' (1991), for which he receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dino Risi
Dino Risi (23 December 1916 – 7 June 2008) was an Italian film director. With Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy, and Ettore Scola, he was one of the masters of ''commedia all'italiana''. Biography Risi was born in Milan. He had an uncle, Fernando Risi, a cinematographer, and a younger brother, Nelo Risi, Nelo (1920–2015), a director and writer. At the age of twelve, Risi became an orphan and was looked after by relatives and friends of his family.Italian director Dino Risi dies BBC.co.uk; accessed 19 November 2015. He studied medicine but refused to become a psychiatrist, as his parents wished. Risi started his career in Film, cinema as an assistant director to cinema figures such as Mario Soldati and Alberto Lattuada. Later he began directing his own films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci ( ; ; 16 March 1941 – 26 November 2018) was an Italian film director and screenwriter with a career that spanned 50 years. Considered one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema, Bertolucci's work achieved international acclaim. With '' The Last Emperor'' (1987) he became the first Italian filmmaker to win the Academy Award for Best Director, and he received many other accolades including a BAFTA Award, a César Award, two Golden Globes, a Golden Lion in 2007, and an Honorary Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2011. A protégé of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bertolucci made his directorial debut at 22. His second film, '' Before the Revolution'' (1964), earned strong international reviews and has since gained classic status, being called a "masterpiece of Italian cinema" by Film4. His 1970 film '' The Conformist'', an adaptation of the Alberto Moravia novel, is considered a classic of international cinema, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Radford
Michael James Radford (born 24 February 1946) is an English film director and screenwriter. He began his career as a documentary director and television comedy writer before transitioning into features in the early 1980s. His best-known credits include the 1984 film adaptation of George Orwell's '' Nineteen Eighty-Four'' starring John Hurt and Richard Burton (in his final role), the Shakespeare adaptation '' The Merchant of Venice'', the true crime drama '' White Mischief'', and the 1994 Italian-language comedy drama '' Il Postino: The Postman'', for which he won the BAFTA Awards for Best Direction and Best Film Not in the English Language, and earned Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Early life and career Radford was born on 24 February 1946, in New Delhi, India, to a British father and an Austrian Jewish mother. He was educated at Bedford School before attending Worcester College, Oxford. After teaching for a few years, he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Bellocchio
Marco Bellocchio (; born 9 November 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. Life and career Born in Bobbio, near Piacenza, Marco Bellocchio had a strict Catholic upbringing – his father was a lawyer, his mother a schoolteacher. He began studying philosophy in Milan but then decided to enter film school, first at the Dramatic Art Academy of Milan, then the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, and later at thSlade School of Fine Artin London. His first film, ''Fists in the Pocket'' (''I pugni in tasca'', winner of the Silver Sail at the 1965 Festival del film Locarno), was funded by family members and shot on family property in 1965. Films Bellocchio's films include ''China Is Near'' (1967), ''Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina'' (''Slap the Monster on Page One'') (1972), ''Nel Nome del Padre'' (''In the name of the Father'' – a satire on a Catholic boarding school that shares affinities with Lindsay Anderson's ''If....'') (1972), ''Victory March ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ettore Scola
Ettore Scola (; 10 May 1931 – 19 January 2016) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He received a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1978 for his film ''A Special Day'' and over the course of his film career was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Life and career Scola was born in Trevico, province of Avellino, Avellino, Campania. At age 15, he became a ghostwriter. He entered the film industry as a screenwriter in 1953 and collaborated with director Dino Risi and fellow writer Ruggero Maccari on the screenplay for Risi's feature, ''Il Sorpasso'' (1962). He directed his first film, ''Let's Talk About Women'', in 1964. In 1974, Scola enjoyed international success with ''We All Loved Each Other So Much'' (''C'eravamo tanto amati''), a wide fresco of post-World War II Italian life and politics, dedicated to fellow director Vittorio De Sica. The film won the Golden Prize at the 9th Mosco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
