Vittorio De Sica
Directing
- Born:
- 1901-07-07
- Died:
- 1974-11-13
- Place of birth:
- Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
Quelli che il cinema
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
We Are Cinema
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
1960
Vittorio D.
Working with De Sica
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Cesare Zavattini
That's Life: Vittorio De Sica
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Blood for Dracula
Fly Girl, Fly, You've Got Music in your Veins
The Assassination of Matteotti
Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
The Small Miracle
The Adventures of Pinocchio
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Scandal Man
Snow Job
Hector the Mighty
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Trastevere
I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
Mafia Things
Samedi soir
Twelve Plus One
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Dear Caroline
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
An Italian in America
Cinéma et Réalité
Lionpower from MGM
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
After the Fox
Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
Sophia Loren in Rome
Eva
Lykke og krone
Lafayette
The Two Marshals
The Orderly
The Wonders of Aladdin
The Last Judgment
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
The Honored Society
Love in Rome
The Traffic Policeman
The Millionairess
Le pillole di Ercole
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
It Started in Naples
Austerlitz
The Angel Wore Red
Gastone
Ferdinand I King of Naples
General Della Rovere
The Four Just Men
The Moralist
Il mondo dei miracoli
Winter Holidays
Men and Noblemen
My Wife's Enemy
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Venetian Honeymoon
Bread, Love and Andalucia
The Girl of San Pietro Square
The Inveterate Bachelor
Angel in a Taxi
Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
Cannon Serenade
Fast and Sexy
Domenica è sempre domenica
Love and Chatter
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Holiday Island
A Farewell to Arms
Doctor and the Healer
The Woman Who Came from the Sea
Paris Casino
Il conte Max
It Happened in Rome
The Guilty
Fathers and Sons
Noi siamo le colonne
The Monte Carlo Story
Time of Vacation
Nero's Mistress
I giorni più belli
The Bigamist
Cinépanorama
Scandal in Sorrento
Roman Tales
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
It Happens in Roma
The Sign of Venus
Too Bad She's Bad
Frisky
The Cheerful Squadron
The Gold of Naples
Modern Virgin
The Secrets of the Bed
The Anatomy of Love
Gran varietà
100 Years of Love
Il matrimonio
Bread, Love and Dreams
It Happened in the Park
The Earrings of Madame de...
Times Gone By
Hello Elephant
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Position Wanted
Tomorrow Is Too Late
Heart
Unknown Men of San Marino
Christmas at Camp 119
Lost in the Dark
Peddlin' in Society
Rome: Free City
Il mondo vuole così
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
No One Comes Back
Our Dreams
La guardia del corpo
A Garibaldian in the Convent
If I Was Honest
Teresa Venerdì
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
Red Roses
Pazza di gioia
Manon Lescaut
The Sinner
It Always Ends That Way
Department Store
Castles in the Air
Ai vostri ordini, signora...
Napoli che non muore
Le due madri
Hanno rapito un uomo
The Cuckoo Clock
La mazurka di papà
Napoli d'altri tempi
Mister Max
The Man Who Smiles
Questi ragazzi
But It's Nothing Serious
I Don't Know You Anymore
Lohengrin
I Love You Only
I'll Give a Million
Full Speed
La canzone del sole
Das Lied der Sonne
Lisetta
Un cattivo soggetto
The Secretary for Everyone
What Scoundrels Men Are!
Two Happy Hearts
The Old Lady
La compagnia dei matti
La bellezza del mondo
The Clemenceau Affair