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Nastro D'Argento For Best Screenplay
The ''Nastro d'Argento'' (Silver Ribbon) is a film award assigned each year, since 1948, by ''Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani'', the association of Italian film critics. History The union of film journalists was founded in the same year in which the Nastri were born, 1946, by a group of film journalists and essayists, some of whom later became directors ( Steno and Mario Soldati, who was its first president) and authors (Michelangelo Antonioni, Antonio Pietrangeli). The first regulation motivated the establishment of the Silver Ribbon to "promote the continuous artistic, technical and industrial improvement of Italian cinema and pay homage to its relevant acquisitions". It was delivered for the first time in 1946 in Rome, at the Hotel de Russie. The editions were held mainly between Rome and Taormina, with the exception of some particular editions (in Florence, after the 1966 flood, as a sign of solidarity) and, always in its first years of life, also ... [...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] |
The Brothers Karamazov (1947 Film)
''The Brothers Karamazov'' () is a 1947 Italian historical drama film directed by Giacomo Gentilomo and starring Fosco Giachetti, Lamberto Picasso and Mariella Lotti.Barattoni p.104 It is based on the 1880 novel of the same title by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It won two Nastro d'Argento Awards, for best screenplay and for best score. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alberto Boccianti. Plot summary Cast * Fosco Giachetti as Dimitri Karamazov * Mariella Lotti as Caterina Ivanovna * Elli Parvo as Gruscenka * Andrea Checchi as Ivan Karamazov * Giulio Donnini as Smerdyakov * Lamberto Picasso as Fjodor Karamazoff * Carlo Conso as Aljoscia * Milly Vitale as Lisa * Paola Veneroni as Fénja * Franco Scandurra as Pjotr Ilic Perchòtin * Laura Carli as Kòclakoff * Liana Del Balzo Liana Del Balzo (4 March 1899 – 26 March 1982) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 90 films between 1935 and 1979. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and died in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titina De Filippo
Titina De Filippo (born Annunziata De Filippo; 27 March 1898 – 26 December 1963) was an Italian actress and playwright. dentronapoli.it She was born in via Dell'Ascensione in , , the oldest of three children born from the extramarital relationship between Luisa De Filippo and Eduardo Scarpetta, a well-respected playwright in Naples. Her father was actually married since 1876 to Rosa De Filippo, Luisa's paternal aunt. Her father Eduardo had several other illegitimate c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ettore Maria Margadonna
Ettore Margadonna (30 November 1893 – 28 October 1975) was an Italian screenwriter. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for the film '' Bread, Love and Dreams'' (1953). Selected filmography * '' The Ferocious Saladin'' (1937) * '' All of Life in One Night'' (1938) * '' Star of the Sea'' (1938) * ''Pietro Micca'' (1938) * '' Mad Animals'' (1939) * ''The Sons of the Marquis Lucera'' (1939) * ''Backstage'' (1939) * ''Diamonds'' (1939) * '' The Happy Ghost'' (1941) * '' Malombra'' (1942) * '' Last Love'' (1947) * ''The Opium Den'' (1947) * '' The Black Captain'' (1951) * '' Bread, Love and Dreams'' (1953) * ''Il viale della speranza'' (1953) * ''Tuppe tuppe, Marescià! ''Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!'', also known as ''È permesso Maresciallo?'', is a 1958 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Peppino De Filippo and Giovanna Ralli. Plot In Sagliena, Pietro Stelluti has become a marshal ...'' (1958) External links * References * ... [...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] |
Alessandro Blasetti
Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film ''Four Steps in the Clouds''. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the Fascist era. He is sometimes known as the "father of Italian cinema" because of his role in reviving the struggling industry in the late 1920s. Early life Blasetti was born in Rome, where he also died. After studying law at university, Blasetti chose to become a journalist and film critic. He worked for several film magazines and led a campaign for national film production, which had largely ceased by this point. In 1919 he made a brief foray into acting when he appeared as an extra in Mario Caserini's ''Tortured Soul''. Director In 1929 Blasetti made his directorial debut with ''Sun (film), Sun'', a fictional story set against the ongoing draining of the Pontine Marshes. The film was well received at a time when there were few Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's Forever Springtime
''It's Forever Springtime'' (Italian: ''È primavera...'') is a 1950 Italian drama film directed by Renato Castellani. Plot Beppe Agosti, Florentine, baker's boy and orphan, is very popular with girls, especially the servants, for his easy way of doing things and for his cheerfulness. Called up to arms, he is sent to Catania and becomes friends with Cavalluccio, a Sicilian fellow soldier and acts as a companion for his engagement with Maria Antonia, a waitress in the house of a well-known lawyer. Cavalluccio, for a serious lack of discipline, is put in prison and transferred. Maria Antonia is sad and Beppe knows how to console her so the two fall in love and then get married. Beppe is also transferred to Milan, where he feels alone and ends up marrying himself with the new conqueror Lucia, not revealing that he is already married. But Maria Antonia learns that her husband's class has been dismissed, and she becomes suspicious of her, so she runs to Milan where she, having discove ... [...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] |
Bicycle Thieves
''Bicycle Thieves'' (), also known as ''The Bicycle Thief'', is a 1948 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It follows the story of a poor father searching in post-World War II Rome for his stolen bicycle, without which he will lose the job which was to be the salvation of his young family. Adapted for the screen by Cesare Zavattini from the 1946 novel by Luigi Bartolini, and starring Lamberto Maggiorani as the desperate father and Enzo Staiola as his plucky young son, ''Bicycle Thieves'' received an Academy Honorary Award (most outstanding foreign language film) in 1950, and in 1952 was deemed the greatest film of all time by ''Sight & Sound'' magazine's poll of filmmakers and critics; fifty years later another poll organized by the same magazine ranked it sixth among the greatest-ever films. In the 2012 version of the list the film ranked 33rd among critics and 10th among directors. The film was also cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerardo Guerrieri
Gerardo Guerrieri (4 February 1920 in Matera – 24 April 1986 in Rome) was an Italian film director, playwright, screenwriter, translator, theater critic, and essayist. He is particularly remembered for translating numerous plays into the Italian language, including works by Anton Chekhov, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, August Strindberg, Eugene O'Neill, William Saroyan and William Shakespeare among others. His own works were avant-garde in design. He was notably the librettist for Renzo Rossellini (composer), Renzo Rossellini's 1961 opera ''Uno sguardo dal ponte''. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Guerrieri, Gerardo 1920 births 1986 deaths Italian male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Italian male writers Italian opera librettists People from Matera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolfo Franci
Adolfo Franci (27 November 1895, in Florence – 31 January 1954, in Rome) was an Italian screenwriter. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his work in '' Shoeshine'' (1946). Selected filmography * '' The Gates of Heaven'' (1945) * '' Shoeshine'' (1946) * ''Eleonora Duse'' (1947) * ''Heart The heart is a muscular Organ (biology), organ found in humans and other animals. This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels. The heart and blood vessels together make the circulatory system. The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrie ...'' (1948) References External links * Italian screenwriters 1895 births 1954 deaths Italian male screenwriters {{Screen-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oreste Biancoli
Oreste Biancoli (20 February 1897 – 25 November 1971) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for more than 90 films between 1930 and 1986. He also directed nine films between 1938 and 1952. He was born in Bologna, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''The Private Secretary'' (1931) * '' One Night with You'' (1932) * '' The Last Adventure'' (1932) * '' Everybody's Secretary'' (1933) * ''The Girl with the Bruise'' (1933) * '' Model Wanted'' (1933) * ''Paprika'' (1933) * ''Just Married'' (1934) * '' Cardinal Lambertini'' (1934) * ''Cavalry'' (1936) * '' Beggar's Wedding'' (1936) * ''Tonight at Eleven'' (1938) * '' At Your Orders, Madame'' (1939) * '' A Thousand Lire a Month'' (1939) * '' The Castle Ball'' (1939) * ''Giarabub'' (1942) * '' The Bandit'' (1946) * '' Fatal Symphony'' (1947) * '' The Great Dawn'' (1947) * ''Heart'' (1948) * '' Christmas at Camp 119'' (1948) * '' The Flame That Will Not Die'' (1949) * '' Tomorrow Is Another Day'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
