Michelangelo Antonioni
Directing
Born 1912-09-29
Died 2007-07-30
Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
72 credits
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Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer. Best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents" — L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962), as well as the English-language Blowup (1966), Antonioni "redefined the concept of narrative cinema" and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large. He produced "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" and rejected action in favor of contemplation, focusing on image and design over character and story. His films defined a "cinema of possibilities".
Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize (1960, 1962), Palme d'Or (1966), and 35th Anniversary Prize (1982); the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion (1955), Golden Lion (1964), FIPRESCI Prize (1964, 1995), and Pietro Bianchi Award (1998); the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon eight times; and an honorary Academy Award in 1995. He is one of three directors to have won the Palme d'Or, the Golden Lion and the Golden Bear, and the only director to have won these three and the Golden Leopard.
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Filmography
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The Oscars
Ciné regards
Eros
L'Eclisse
Blow-Up
Reflets de Cannes
Zabriskie Point
The Passenger
L'Avventura
Red Desert
La Notte
The Devil's Envoys
Beyond the Clouds
Wandering Heart
The Three Faces
Dear Antonioni
Il Grido
The White Sheik
Identification of a Woman
The Lady Without Camelias
Le Amiche
Close Up
The Vanquished
Sign of the Gladiator
Story of a Love Affair
The Mystery of Oberwald
Cinéma et Réalité
N.U.
Tempest
Words in Progress
Room 666
Tokyo Olympiad
Superstition
Palermo Shooting
Tragic Hunt
Roma
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Michelangelo Eye to Eye
Love in the City
Seven Reeds, One Dress
12 Directors for 12 Cities
People of the Po Valley
Sweet Ruin
I due Foscari
Lies of Love
Chung Kuo-Cina
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up
A Thousand and One Monica
Antonioni visto da Antonioni
Chung Kuo: China
Underground New York
Back to Room 666
Antonioni su Antonioni
Noto, Almond Trees, Volcano, Stromboli, Carnival
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
A Pilot Returns
Antonioni, la dernière séquence
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