Michelangelo Antonioni
Born: 1912-09-29 in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Died: 2007-07-30
Known For: Directing
Biography
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.
Filmography
2018
- Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2017
- Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit as Self (archive footage)
2012
- Close Up as Self (archive footage)
2009
- Wandering Heart as Self
2008
- Palermo Shooting ... (In Memory Of)
- Back to Room 666 as Self (archive footage)
- Sweet Ruin ... (Screenplay)
- Antonioni su Antonioni as Himself
2004
- Eros ... (Director)
- Words in Progress
- Michelangelo Eye to Eye as Self
2002
- Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up as Self (archive footage)
2001
- Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema as Self (archive footage)
1997
- Sicily ... (Director)
1995
- Beyond the Clouds ... (Director)
- To Make a Film Is to Be Alive as Self (uncredited)
- Dear Antonioni as Self
1993
- Noto, Almond Trees, Volcano, Stromboli, Carnival ... (Director)
1992
- Kumbha Mela ... (Director)
1990
- Un po' di Giappone as Self (uncredited)
1989
- 12 Directors for 12 Cities ... (Director)
- Roma ... (Director)
1985
- Room 666 as Self
- Antonioni, la dernière séquence as himself
1984
- Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer as Self
1983
- Return to Lisca Bianca Island ... (Director)
1982
- Identification of a Woman ... (Director)
1981
- The Mystery of Oberwald ... (Writer)
1978
- Antonioni visto da Antonioni as Self
1975
- The Passenger ... (Screenplay)
1972
- Chung Kuo-Cina ... (Director)
- Chung Kuo: China ... (Director)
1970
- Zabriskie Point ... (Director)
1968
- Underground New York as Self
1967
- Cinéma et Réalité as Self
1966
- Blow-Up ... (Screenplay)
1965
- Tokyo Olympiad ... (Thanks)
- The Three Faces ... (Director)
- Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials as Self
- Il provino ... (Director)
1964
- Red Desert ... (Director)
1962
- L'Eclisse ... (Director)
1961
- La Notte ... (Story)
1960
- L'Avventura ... (Screenplay)
1959
- Sign of the Gladiator ... (Second Unit Director)
1958
- Tempest ... (Assistant Director)
1957
- Il Grido ... (Director)
1955
- Le Amiche ... (Director)
1954
- Reflets de Cannes as Self
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- The Vanquished ... (Director)
- Love in the City ... (Director)
- The Lady Without Camelias ... (Screenplay)
1952
- The White Sheik ... (Story)
1950
- Story of a Love Affair ... (Director)
- The Funicular of Mount Faloria ... (Director)
- The Villa of Monsters ... (Director)
1949
- Lies of Love ... (Director)
1948
- N.U. ... (Director)
- Superstition ... (Director)
- Seven Reeds, One Dress ... (Director)
1947
- Tragic Hunt ... (Screenplay)
- People of the Po Valley ... (Director)
1942
- The Devil's Envoys ... (Assistant Director)
- A Pilot Returns ... (Screenplay)
- I due Foscari ... (Screenplay)