Michelangelo Antonioni
Known for: Directing
Born: September 29, 1912
Died: July 30, 2007
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
69 movies · 4 TV shows, newest first
7.0
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
2018
8.0
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
2017
9.5
Close Up
2012
4.5
Wandering Heart
2009
6.1
Palermo Shooting
2008NR
Antonioni su Antonioni
20085.5
Back to Room 666
2008
NR
Sweet Ruin
2008
NR
Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima
2007
NR
A Thousand and One Monica
2006
5.7
Eros
2004
6.2
Michelangelo Eye to Eye
2004
5.5
Words in Progress
2004
8.5
Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up
2002
9.0
Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema
2001
NR
Sicily
1997
6.2
Beyond the Clouds
1995
7.0
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
1995
NR
Dear Antonioni
1995
5.0
Noto, Almond Trees, Volcano, Stromboli, Carnival
1993
6.0
Kumbha Mela
1992
NR
Un po' di Giappone
1990
5.6
12 Directors for 12 Cities
1989
NR
Roma
1989
6.6
Room 666
1985
NR
Antonioni, la dernière séquence
1985
6.5
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984NR
Gianna Nannini: Fotoromanza
1984
4.9
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
1983
5.9
Identification of a Woman
1982
5.8
The Mystery of Oberwald
1981
5.0
Ciné regards
1978
NR
Antonioni visto da Antonioni
1978
7.2
The Passenger
1975
7.3
Chung Kuo: China
1972
6.5
Chung Kuo-Cina
1972
7.0
Zabriskie Point
1970
NR
Underground New York
1968
6.5
Cinéma et Réalité
1967
7.3
Blow-Up
1966
6.3
Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials
1965
7.7
Tokyo Olympiad
1965
5.7
The Three Faces
1965
NR
Il provino
1965
7.3
Red Desert
1964
7.7
L'Eclisse
1962
7.9
La Notte
1961
7.5
L'Avventura
1960
4.6
Sign of the Gladiator
1959
6.5
Tempest
1958
7.5
Il Grido
1957
6.7
Le Amiche
1955
5.0
Reflets de Cannes
1954
6.5
Love in the City
1953
6.3
The Vanquished
1953
7.0
The Oscars
1953
6.5
The Lady Without Camelias
1953
7.2
The White Sheik
1952
6.7
Story of a Love Affair
1950
7.3
The Funicular of Mount Faloria
1950
6.0
The Villa of Monsters
1950
5.7
Lies of Love
1949
6.4
Superstition
1948
6.2
Seven Reeds, One Dress
1948
6.3
N.U.
1948
6.6
Tragic Hunt
1947
6.5
People of the Po Valley
1947
6.8
The Devil's Envoys
1942
NR
I due Foscari
1942
5.2
A Pilot Returns
1942
NR
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
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Technically Sweet
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Japan 1984 – 7 Betacam Tapes
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