Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio De Sica was born on Jul 07, 1901 in Italy. Vittorio De Sica's big-screen debut came with Gli uomini, che mascalzoni... directed by Mario Camerini in 1932, strarring Bruno. Vittorio De Sica is known for Nel blu dipinto di blu directed by Piero Tellini, Domenico Modugno stars as Turi La Rosa and Giovanna Ralli as Assuntina. Vittorio De Sica has got 30 awards and 16 nominations so far. The most recent award Vittorio De Sica achieved is Online Film & Television Association. The upcoming new movie Vittorio De Sica plays is Nel blu dipinto di blu which will be released on Sep 27, 2008.
Vittorio De Sica grew up in Naples, and started out as an office clerk in order to raise money to support his poor family. He was increasingly drawn towards acting, and made his screen debut while still in his teens, joining a stage company in 1923. By the late 1920s he was a successful matinee idol of the Italian theatre, and repeated that achievement in Italian movies, mostly light comedies. He turned to directing in 1940, making comedies in a similar vein, but with his fifth film Les enfants nous regardent... (1943), he revealed hitherto unsuspected depths and an extraordinarily sensitive touch with actors, especially children. It was also the first film he made with the writer Cesare Zavattini with whom he would subsequently make Sciuscia (1946) and Voleur de bicyclette (1948), heartbreaking studies of poverty in postwar Italy which won special Oscars before the foreign film category was officially established. After the box-office disaster of Umberto D. (1952), a relentlessly bleak study of the problems of old age, he returned to directing lighter work, appearing in front of the camera more frequently. Although Hier, aujourd'hui et demain (1963) won him another Oscar, it was generally accepted that his career as one of the great directors was over. However, just before he died he made Le jardin des Finzi-Contini (1970), which won him yet another Oscar, and his final film Una breve vacanza (1973). He died following the removal of a cyst from his lungs.
Birthday
Jul 07, 1901Place of Birth
Sora, Lazio, Italy
Known For
Awards
30 wins & 16 nominations
Movies & TV Shows
- 19746.1
- 1973
director
7.5 - 19725.1
- 19725.5
- 1972
director
6.6 - 19727.8
- 19716.1
- 1970
writer, director
5.9 - 1970
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
writer, director
7.3 - 1970
director
7.3 - 19695.8
- 19696.3
- 19687.0
- 19685.0
- 1968
director
5.5 - 19676.0
- 19675.9
- 1967
director
6.0 - 19666.4
- 19666.5
- 1966
director
6.9 - 19655.6
- 1964
director
7.4 - 1963
director
7.2 - 1962
actor
6.4 - 19625.9
- 1962
director
6.8 - 1962
director
7.1 - 19617.1
- 19615.5
- 19615.4
- 19616.8
- 19617.1
- 1960
writer, director
7.8 - 19606.7
- 19607.2
- 19605.4
- 19606.7
- 19606.3
- 19606.2
- 19605.8
- 19606.2
- 19596.4
- 19597.8
- 19596.5
- 19595.9
- 19596.2
- 19596.8
- 19595.9
- 19595.2
- 19585.9
- 19586.2
- 19585.3
- 19585.6
- 19585.9
- 19586.2
- 19575.8
- 19576.0
- 19575.8
- 19576.9
- 19574.5
- 19577.1
- 19576.8
- 19566.0
- 19565.7
- 19566.5
- 19565.4
- 19565.8
- 19566.9
- 1956
director
7.4 - 19556.5
- 19555.7
- 19556.4
- 19556.5
- 19547.3
- 19546.8
- 19545.9
- 19545.1
- 19545.7
- 19546.1
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- 19536.9
- 19537.9
- 19526.4
- 19526.7
- 1952
director
8.2 - 1951
writer, director
7.6 - 19516.5
- 19506.8
- 1948
writer, director
8.3 - 19486.2
- 1947
- 19476.3
- 19466.6
- 19466.5
- 1945
writer, director
6.1 - 19456.4
- 19456.7
- 1943
writer, director
7.7 - 19426.4
- 19416.1
- 19406.4
- 19406.2
- 19405.1
- 19396.6
- 1939
- 19377.0
- 19376.3
- 19356.9
- 19347.3
- 19346.1
- 19326.8