Vittorio De Sica

Directing

Born: 1901-07-07

Died: 1974-11-13

From: Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy

Gender: Male

Popularity: 0.9

Also Known As

Витторио Де Сика비토리오 데 시카ویتوریو دسیکا

Biography

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.

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Awards & Nominations26 won · 1 nominated

🏆 Won

Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film

1961

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

A Farewell to Arms

1958

🏆 Won

Grolla d'oro for Best Direction

The Gold of Naples

1955

🏆 Won

Grolla d'oro for Best Leading Actor

Bread, Love and Dreams

1954

🏆 Won

Golden Globe Awards

1950

🏆 Won

Nastro d'Argento for Best Screenplay

Bicycle Thieves

1949

🏆 Won

Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film

1949

🏆 Won

Nastro d'Argento for best director

Bicycle Thieves

1949

🏆 Won

Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor

Heart

1948

🏆 Won

Academy Awards

1948

🏆 Won

Nastro d'Argento for the director of the best film

Shoeshine

1946

🏆 Won

David di Donatello for Best Actor

Pane, amore e...

🏆 Won

Golden Bear

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

🏆 Won

David di Donatello europeo

A Brief Vacation

🏆 Won

Leopard for Best Direction

Bicycle Thieves

🏆 Won

Jussi Awards

Umberto D.

🏆 Won

Bodil Awards

Umberto D.

🏆 Won

Bodil Awards

Bicycle Thieves

🏆 Won

Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Foreign Film

Two Women

🏆 Won

Kinema Junpo

Bicycle Thieves

🏆 Won

David di Donatello for Best Director

The Condemned of Altona

🏆 Won

David di Donatello for Best Director

Marriage Italian-Style

🏆 Won

National Board of Review Award for Best Director

Bicycle Thieves

🏆 Won

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards 1972

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

🏆 Won

National Board of Review Award for Best Film

🏆 Won

Palme d'Or

Miracle in Milan

🏆 Won

San Francisco International Film Festival

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Vittorio De Sica

Also Known As

Biography

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Awards & Nominations26 won · 1 nominated

Acting170 titles

The Secretary for Everyone

Lohengrin

Lo sbaglio di essere vivo

La canzone del sole

Manon Lescaut

Napoli d'altri tempi

We Are Cinema

Lost in the Dark

Ai vostri ordini, signora...

The Man Who Smiles

La mazurka di papà

Angel in a Taxi

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

The Small Miracle

Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene

Lykke og krone

Hallmark Hall of Fame

My Name Is Anna Magnani

Cinépanorama

If I Was Honest

Position Wanted

We All Loved Each Other So Much

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

Red Roses

Il mondo vuole così

The Orderly

Gli altri, gli altri e noi

The Girl of San Pietro Square

Il mondo dei miracoli

Nel blu dipinto di blu

Three Etc.'s and the Colonel

Pazza di gioia

La guardia del corpo

The Four Just Men

The Earrings of Madame de...

Amo te sola

100 Years of Love

I giorni più belli

The Adventures of Pinocchio

General Della Rovere

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura

The Traffic Policeman

The Gold of Naples

The Adventuress from the Floor Above

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina

The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Two Marshals

Frisky

Doctor and the Healer

The Guilty

Il conte Max

What Scoundrels Men Are!

Castles in the Air

Napoli che non muore

Bread, Love and Dreams

Hanno rapito un uomo

Cannon Serenade

Un cattivo soggetto

Two Happy Hearts

The Old Lady

We Are All in Temporary Liberty

The Inveterate Bachelor

Le pillole di Ercole

I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear

Modern Virgin

Sophia Loren, a special destiny

Too Bad She's Bad

Scandal in Sorrento

How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio

The Shoes of the Fisherman

The Sign of Venus

Fathers and Sons

I'll Give a Million