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Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer. Best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents" — L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962), as well as the English-language Blowup (1966), Antonioni "redefined the concept of narrative cinema" and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large. He produced "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" and rejected action in favor of contemplation, focusing on image and design over character and story. His films defined a "cinema of possibilities".
Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize (1960, 1962), Palme d'Or (1966), and 35th Anniversary Prize (1982); the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion (1955), Golden Lion (1964), FIPRESCI Prize (1964, 1995), and Pietro Bianchi Award (1998); the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon eight times; and an honorary Academy Award in 1995. He is one of three directors to have won the Palme d'Or, the Golden Lion and the Golden Bear, and the only director to have won these three and the Golden Leopard.
As director
Eros
Michelangelo Eye to Eye
Sicily
Beyond the Clouds
Noto, Almond Trees, Volcano, Stromboli, Carnival
Kumbha Mela
Un po' di Giappone
12 Directors for 12 Cities
Roma
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
Identification of a Woman
The Mystery of Oberwald
The Passenger
Chung Kuo: China
Zabriskie Point
Blow-Up
The Three Faces
Il provino
Red Desert
L'Eclisse
La Notte
L'Avventura
Il Grido
Le Amiche
Love in the City
The Vanquished
The Lady Without Camelias
Story of a Love Affair
The Funicular of Mount Faloria
The Villa of Monsters
As actor
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
Close Up
Wandering Heart
Back to Room 666
Antonioni su Antonioni
Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima
A Thousand and One Monica
Michelangelo Eye to Eye
Words in Progress
Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up
Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
Dear Antonioni
Un po' di Giappone
Antonioni, la dernière séquence
Room 666
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Antonioni visto da Antonioni
Underground New York
Cinéma et Réalité
Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni