La notti di Cabiria ( Nights of Cabiria) 1960 I Vitelloni 'Un'agenzia matrimoniale' in Amore in citta (Zavattini) 1954 Awards: Grand Prize, Venice Festival, 1954, New York Film Critics Circle Award, 1956, Screen Directors Guild Award, 1956, and Oscar for Best Foreign Film, 1956, for La strada Oscar for Best Foreign Film, for La notti di Cabiria, 1957 Oscar for Best Foreign Film, 1960, Palme d'or, Cannes Festival, 1960, and New York Critics Circle Award, 1961, for La dolce vita Oscar for Best Foreign Film, for 8 1/2, 1963 Oscar for Best Foreign Film, and New York Film Critics Circle Award, for Amarcord, 1974 Special Prize, Cannesįestival, 1987 Special Oscar, honoring the body of his work, 1993 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Columbia University, New York, 1970. Career: Worked on 420 and Avventuroso magazines in Florence, 1938 caricature artist and writer in Rome, from 1939 through friend Aldo Fabrizi, worked as screenwriter, from 1941 worked on Rossellini's Rome, Open City, 1944 screenwriter and assistant director, 1946–52 formed Capitolium production company with Alberto Lattuada for Variety Lights, 1950 formed Federiz production company with Angelo Rizzoli (subsequently taken over by Clemente Fracazzi), 1961.
Family: Married Giulietta Masina in Rome, 30 October 1943, one son (died). Education: Catholic schools in Rimini, until 1938.
