Vittorio de Sica

Gender: Male
Born: 7th July 1901
Died: 13th November 1974
Nationality: Italy
TV programs: The Four Just Men
Movies: The Last Judgement, The Monte Carlo Story, Maddalena, zero in condotta, Teresa Venerdì, Bread, Love and Dreams, Il signor Max, Il Generale della Rovere, It Started in Naples, The Angel Wore Red, The Biggest Bundle of Them All, Ballerina e Buon Dio (1958), Gli uomini che mascalzoni!, The Sign of Venus, Too Bad She's Bad, Four Steps in the Clouds, Pane, amore e..., Il Vigile, Frisky, The Man Who Smiles, Roma Citta Libera, Cameriera bella presenza offresi..., Lost in the Dark, Fathers and Sons, Doctor and the Healer, The Miller's Beautiful Wife, A Slice of Life, The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, The Earrings of Madame de..., A Farewell to Arms, Blood for Dracula, The Millionairess, The Shoes of the Fisherman, Tempo massimo, L'onorata società, Le pillole di Ercole, The Inveterate Bachelor, Little Cannon, Bad Subject, The Lucky Diamond, La segretaria per tutti, Mr. Desire, I'll Give a Million, The Song of the Sun, Two Happy Hearts, I Don't Know You Anymore, Paprika, After the Fox, Gastone, Anna di Brooklyn, Me, Me, Me... and the Others, The Thirteen Chairs

Vittorio De Sica (7 July 1901 or 1902 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.

In his career, four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: Sciuscià and Ladri di biciclette were awarded honorary Oscars, while ieri, oggi, domani and Il giardino dei Finzi Contini won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. 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 Ladri di biciclette helped establish the permanent Best Foreign Film Oscar. These two films generally are considered part of the canon of classic cinema. Ladri di biciclette was cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the 15 most influential films in cinema history.

Ironically, for an artist considered one of the Italian cinema's greatest and most influential directors, De Sica's sole Academy Award nomination was for acting, when he received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod 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

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