Federico Fellini

Directing · Born 1920-01-20 in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Biography

Federico Fellini, Knight Grand Cross (January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993), was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century. Personal and highly idiosyncratic visions of society, Fellini's films are a unique combination of memory, dreams, fantasy, surrealism and desire. The adjectives "Fellinian" and "Felliniesque" are "synonymous with any kind of extravagant, fanciful, even baroque image in the cinema and in art in general". In a career spanning almost fifty years, Fellini won the Palme d'Or for La Dolce Vita, was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, and directed four motion pictures that won Oscars in the category of Best…

Filmography

• The End of a Beautiful Epoch as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Anthony Quinn: An Original as Self
• The Clowns as Federico Fellini (uncredited)
• L'amore as The Tramp (segment "Il miracolo") (uncredited)
• Paisan as Man in Crowd (uncredited)
• 1960 as Self (archive footage)
• Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert as Self (archive footage)
• Fellini nel cestino as Self
• Fellini: I'm a Born Liar as Self (archive footage)
• How Strange to be Named Federico as Sé stesso (materiale d'archivio)