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

• Paisan as Man in Crowd (uncredited)
• We All Loved Each Other So Much as Federico Fellini
• Roma as Self (uncredited)
• 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)
• 1960 as Self (archive footage)
• Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert as Self (archive footage)
• Fellini nel cestino as Self

TV

• Un film et son époque as Self (archive footage)
• The Merv Griffin Show as Self
• Le Grand Échiquier as Self
• The Oscars as Self
• Cinépanorama as Self
• The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
• Titel, Thesen, Temperamente as Self