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Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni

Director · 1912 – 2007 · Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

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.

Movies18

  • Movie4.5

    Coração Vagabundo

    Wandering Heart

    2009 · 6 votes

  • Movie9.5

    Close Up

    2012 · 2 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Jeanne Moreau, l'affranchie

    Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit

    2018 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.5

    L'addio a Enrico Berlinguer

    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

    1984 · 3 votes

  • Movie8.5
  • Movie6.6

    Chambre 666

    Room 666

    1985 · 62 votes

  • Movie

    Caro Antonioni

    Dear Antonioni

    1995

  • Movie7.0

    Fare un film è per me vivere

    To Make a Film Is to Be Alive

    1995 · 1 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Back to Room 666

    2008 · 2 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie5.5

    Épreuves d'artistes

    Words in Progress

    2004 · 2 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Cinéma et Réalité

    1967 · 2 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Lo sguardo di Michelangelo

    Michelangelo Eye to Eye

    2004 · 13 votes

  • Movie8.0
  • Movie9.0

    Michelangelo Antonioni: Lo sguardo che ha cambiato il cinema

    Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema

    2001 · 1 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie6.3

    Michelangelo Antonioni storia di un autore

    Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials

    1965 · 9 votes

  • Movie

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  • TV7.0

    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

  • TV5.0

    Ciné regards

    1978 · 1 votes

  • TV5.0

    Reflets de Cannes

    1954 · 2 votes