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Vittorio De Sica
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.
As director
The Voyage
A Brief Vacation
We'll Call Him Andrea
Sunflower
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
The Couples
A Place for Lovers
The Witches
Woman Times Seven
After the Fox
A Young World
Marriage Italian Style
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
The Boom
Boccaccio '70
The Condemned of Altona
The Last Judgment
Two Women
The Roof
The Gold of Naples
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Umberto D.
Miracle in Milan
Bicycle Thieves
Heart
Shoeshine
The Gates of Heaven
The Children Are Watching Us
A Garibaldian in the Convent
Teresa Venerdì
As actor
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
We Are Cinema
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
Blood for Dracula
We All Loved Each Other So Much
The Assassination of Matteotti
Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
The Small Miracle
Fly Girl, Fly, You've Got Music in your Veins
Snow Job
Hector the Mighty
Scandal Man
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Mafia Things
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Trastevere
I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear