Michelangelo Antonioni
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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- 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 · Antonioni su Antonioni as Himself
- 2008 · Back to Room 666 as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima as Self
- 2006 · A Thousand and One Monica as
- 2004 · Michelangelo Eye to Eye as Self
- 2004 · Words in Progress as
- 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)
- 1999 · Un voyage avec Martin Scorsese à travers le cinéma italien (seconde partie) as
- 1995 · To Make a Film Is to Be Alive as Self (uncredited)
- 1995 · Dear Antonioni as Self
- 1990 · Un pò di Giappone as Self (uncredited)
- 1985 · Antonioni, la dernière séquence as himself
- 1984 · Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer as Self
- 1982 · Room 666 as Self
- 1978 · Antonioni visto da Antonioni as Self
- 1968 · Underground New York as Himself
- 1967 · Cinéma et Réalité as Self
- 1965 · Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials as Self
- 1954 · Reflets de Cannes as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni as Self (archive footage)