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Ettore Scola

Ettore Scola

Ettore Scola (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛttore ˈskɔːla]; 10 May 1931 – 19 January 2016) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He received a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1978 for his film A Special Day and over the course of his film career was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Scola was born in Trevico, Avellino, Campania. From age 15, he became a ghostwriter. He entered the film industry as a screenwriter in 1953, and collaborated with director Dino Risi and fellow writer Ruggero Maccari on the screenplay for Risi's feature, Il Sorpasso (1962). He directed his first film, Let's Talk About Women, in 1964. In 1974 Scola enjoyed international success with We All Loved Each Other So Much (C'eravamo tanto amati), a wide fresco of post-World War II Italian life and politics, dedicated to fellow director Vittorio De Sica. The film won the Golden Prize at the 9th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1976 he won the Prix de la mise en scène at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival for Brutti, sporchi e cattivi. Scola made further successful films, including A Special Day (1977), That Night In Varennes (1982), What Time Is It? (1989) and Captain Fracassa's Journey (1990). He directed close to 40 films in some 40 years. His film Passione d'amore, adapted from a 19th-century novel, was adapted by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine into the award-winning musical Passion. He was a member of the jury at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. Scola died in Rome on 19 January 2016 at the age of 84. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ettore Scola, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

  • The Family
  • The Night of Varennes
  • Passion of Love
  • A Special Day
  • We All Loved Each Other So Much
  • Le Bal
  • Macaroni
  • The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
  • The Dinner
  • Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
  • Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
  • Ugly, Dirty and Bad
  • A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)
  • Let's Talk About Women
  • People of Rome
  • One Million Dollars
  • What Time Is It?
  • Unfair Competition
  • Splendor
  • The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
  • The Terrace
  • My Name Is Rocco Papaleo
  • The Story of a Poor Young Man
  • Police Chief Pepe
  • Mario, Maria and Mario
  • The Devil in Love
  • How Strange to be Named Federico
  • Festival dell’Unità 1972
  • The New Monsters
  • 1943-1997
  • Thrilling
  • Vorrei Che Volo
  • Trevico-Torino (viaggio nel Fiat-Nam)
  • Rome, November 12, 1994
  • The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops
  • Puccini: La Bohème
  • Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
  • Letters from Palestine
  • La bohème