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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 ...
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Nastro D'Argento For Best Actor
The ''Nastro d'Argento'' (Silver Ribbon) is a film award assigned each year, since 1946, by ''Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani'' ("Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists"), the association of Italian film critics. This is the list of Nastro d'Argento awards for Best Actor. Marcello Mastroianni is the record holder with seven Nastro d'Argento awards for Best Actor received from 1955 to 1991, followed by Vittorio Gassman and Nino Manfredi, both four times winners. 1940s * 1946 – Andrea Checchi – '' Two Anonymous Letters'' * 1947 – Amedeo Nazzari – '' The Bandit'' * 1948 – Vittorio De Sica – ''Heart'' * 1949 – Massimo Girotti – '' In the Name of the Law'' 1950s * 1950 – not awarded * 1951 – Aldo Fabrizi – '' Father's Dilemma'' * 1952 – Totò – '' Cops and Robbers'' * 1953 – Renato Rascel – ''The Overcoat'' * 1954 – Nino Taranto – '' Easy Years'' * 1955 – Marcello Mastroianni – '' Days of Love'' * 1956 � ...
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Cinema Of Italy
The cinema of Italy (, ) comprises the films made within Italy or by List of Italian film directors, Italian directors. Since its beginning, Italian cinema has influenced film movements worldwide. Italy is one of the birthplaces of art cinema and the stylistic aspect of film has been one of the most important factors in the history of Italian film. As of 2018, Italian films have won 14 List of countries by number of Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film (the most of any country) as well as 12 Palme d'Or, Palmes d'Or (the second-most of any country), one The Last Emperor, Academy Award for Best Picture and many Golden Lions and Golden Bears. The history of Italian cinema began a few months after the Lumière brothers began motion picture exhibitions. The first Italian director is considered to be Vittorio Calcina, a collaborator of the Lumière Brothers later active from 1896 to 1905. The first films date back to 1896 and were ...
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Daunbailò
''Down by Law'' (Italian: ''Daunbailò'') is a 1986 American independent neo-beat noir comedy film. It was written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, and stars Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni (in his first American film role). The film centers on the arrest, incarceration, and escape from jail of three men. It discards jailbreak film conventions by focusing on the interaction between the convicts rather than on the mechanics of the escape. A key element in the film is Robby Müller's slow-moving camerawork, which captures the architecture of New Orleans and the Louisiana bayou to which the cellmates escape. Plot summary Three men, previously unknown to each other, are arrested in New Orleans and placed in the same cell. Both Zack (Waits), a disc jockey, and Jack (Lurie), a pimp, have been set up, neither having committed the crime for which they have been arrested. Their cellmate Bob (Benigni, in his first international role), an Italian tourist who understands minimal ...
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Roberto Benigni
Roberto Remigio Benigni ( , ; born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film director. He gained international recognition for writing, directing, and starring in the Holocaust comedy drama film ''Life Is Beautiful'' (1997), for which he received the Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Actor, Best Actor and Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Best International Feature Film. Benigni was the first actor to win the Best Actor Academy Award for a non-English language performance. Benigni made his acting debut in 1977's ''Berlinguer, I Love You'', which he also wrote, and which was directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci. Benigni's directorial debut was the 1983 anthology film ''Tu mi turbi'', which was also the acting debut of his wife, Nicoletta Braschi. He continued directing and also starring in the comedic films ''Nothing Left to Do But Cry'' (1984), ''The Little Devil'' (1988), ''Johnny Stecchino'' (1991), ''The Monster (1994 film), ...
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The Professor (1986 Film)
''The Professor'' (Italian: ''Il camorrista'') is a 1986 Italian noir-crime drama directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. His film debut, it is based on the true story of the Italian crime boss Raffaele Cutolo, and adapted from the novel by Giuseppe Marrazzo. The international version is shorter than the original Italian release. Plot In 1963, the young man Franco, kills a boy who had harassed his sister Rosaria, and ends up in prison. Over the space of 10 years in Poggioreale prison in Naples, he becomes known as Oh Professor 'e Vesuviano'' (Raffaele Cutolo in real life), a powerful, feared and respected figure. With his friends Alfredo Canale and Pasquale Zara "the animal", he creates the criminal organization "Camorra Riformata". All run of the Professor prison cell, the organization grows and spreads until in the 70s it clashes with the old families of the Camorra, starting the War of the Camorra that will bleed all of South Italy in the 1970s and 1980s. ;The earth trembles In 1 ...
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Giuseppe Tornatore
Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the directors who brought critical acclaim back to Italian cinema.Katz, Ephraim, "Italy," ''The Film Encyclopedia'' (New York: HarperResource, 2001), pp. 682-685. In a career spanning over 30 years he is best known for directing and writing drama films such as ''Everybody's Fine (1990 film), Everybody's Fine'', ''The Legend of 1900'', ''Malèna (film), Malèna'', ''Baarìa (film), Baarìa'' and ''The Best Offer''. His most noted film is ''Cinema Paradiso'', for which Tornatore won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has also directed several advertising campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana. Tornatore is also known for his long-standing association with composer Ennio Morricone, who composed music for thirteen Tornatore feature films since 1988. Life and career Born in Bagheria, near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at leas ...
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Massimo Troisi
Massimo Troisi (; 19 February 1953 – 4 June 1994) was an Italian actor, cabaret performer, comedian, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his works in the films '' I'm Starting back from Three'' (1981) and '' Il Postino: The Postman'' (1994), for which he was posthumously nominated for two Oscars. Nicknamed "the comedian of feelings", he is considered one of the most important actors of Italian theater and cinema. Early years and TV star Troisi was born into a large family in San Giorgio a Cremano, a town near Naples. His father Alfredo was a train engineer. Some of his family experiences were later told in his first films. After secondary school, Troisi wrote some poems inspired by his favourite author, Pier Paolo Pasolini, winning a youth poetry prize in his name, while also imitating him in sketches. In 1969 he started to play in a small local theatre together with some childhood friends (including Lello Arena and Enzo Decaro). Trois's increasingly se ...
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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 ...
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Nastro D'Argento Lifetime Achievement Award
The ''Nastro d'Argento'' (Silver Ribbon) is a film award assigned annually, since 1946, by ''Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani'' ("Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists") the association of Italy, Italian film critics. This is the list of Nastro d'Argento awards for Lifetime Achievement. Recipients *1984 - Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia *1995 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Sophia Loren and Alberto Sordi *1996 - Ingmar Bergman *1998 - Nino Baragli *2001 - Armando Trovajoli *2003 - Luis Bacalov *2005 - Suso Cecchi d'Amico and Mario Monicelli *2006 - Stefania Sandrelli *2007 - Dino Risi *2008 - Piero De Bernardi, Giuliano Gemma, Carlo Lizzani and Vittorio Storaro *2010 - Ugo Gregoretti, Gilles Jacob, Ilaria Occhini and Armando Trovajoli *2011 - Emidio Greco, Fulvio Lucisano and Marina Piperno *2013 - Roberto Herlitzka *2014 - Marina Cicogna, Francesco Rosi and Piero Tosi *2018 - Gigi Proietti *2019 - Silvano Agosti *2020 - Toni Servillo See also * Cinema ...
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Nastro D'Argento For Best Score
The ''Nastro d'Argento'' (Silver Ribbon) is a film award assigned each year, since 1946, by ''Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani'' ("Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists"), the association of Italian film critics. This is the list of Nastro d'Argento awards for Best Score. Ennio Morricone is the record holder with nine Nastro d'Argento awards for Best Score received from 1965 to 2013. 1940s *1947 - Renzo Rossellini - '' Paisan'' *1948 - Renzo Rossellini - ''The Brothers Karamazov'' *1949 - Alessandro Cicognini - ''Bicycle Thieves'' 1950s *1950 - Roman Vlad - for all his works *1951 - Giovanni Fusco - '' Story of a Love Affair'' *1952 - Mario Nascimbene - '' Rome 11:00'' *1953 - Valentino Bucchi - '' Eager to Live'' *1954 - Mario Zafred - '' Chronicle of Poor Lovers'' *1955 - Angelo Francesco Lavagnino - '' Lost Continent'' *1956 - Angelo Francesco Lavagnino - '' Vertigine bianca'' *1957 - Nino Rota - ''War and Peace'' *1958 - Nin ...
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