Ettore Scola

Known for DirectingBorn 1931-05-10Died 2016-01-19Trevico, Campania, Italy

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Festival dell’Unità 1972

Half a Century of Song

Spécial cinéma

Puccini: La Bohème

Midi Première

Rosso e nero

Cavalcade of Song

Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit

Letters from Palestine

We All Loved Each Other So Much

A Special Day

A Parisian in Rome

Il Sorpasso

1943-1997

Alberto il grande

Nel blu dipinto di blu

Non sono più guaglione

At War for Love

Portrait Of My Father

The Family

How Strange to be Named Federico

What Time Is It?

Ugly, Dirty and Bad

The Girl from Parma

March on Rome

Sophia Loren, a special destiny

I Knew Her Well

I giorni più belli

Unfair Competition

The Monsters

The Visitor

The Terrace

The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life

The Dinner

A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)

Ghosts of Rome

Adua and Her Friends

Le Bal

Love and Larceny

The New Monsters

An American in Rome

Thrilling

That Night of Varennes

Il conte Max

Complexes

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

Le pillole di Ercole

The Story of a Poor Young Man