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Carlo Ponti was an Italian film producer who worked from the 1930s until his death in 2007, becoming one of the most influential figures in European cinema. He is remembered for producing acclaimed films and for helping to shape the Italian film industry during its most creative period.
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Magenta, Lombardy, Italy
Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit. Along with Dino De Laurentiis, he is credited with reinvigorating and popularizing Italian cinema post-World War II, producing some of the country's most acclaimed and financially-successful films of the 1950s and 1960s.…
Known for
- Sophia Loren, a special destiny — Self (archive footage)2019
- Reflets de Cannes — Self1954
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Carlo
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Magenta
- Place of death
- Geneva
- Occupation
- film director
- Educated at
- University of Milan
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Carlo Ponti 1951.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1912-12-11
- date of death
- 2007-01-10
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
- Commons category
- Carlo Ponti (producer)
- topic's main category
- Category:Films produced by Carlo Ponti
- start of work period
- 1940-00-00
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit. Along with Dino De Laurentiis, he is credited with reinvigorating and popularizing Italian cinema post-World War II, producing some of the country's most acclaimed and financially-successful films of the 1950s and 1960s.
Ponti worked with many of the most important directors of Italian cinema of the era, including Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Vittorio De Sica, as well as many international directors such as Agnès Varda and David Lean. He helped launch the career of his wife, international film star Sophia Loren. He won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film for La Strada (1954) and was nominated for Best Picture for producing Doctor Zhivago (1965). In 1996, he was appointed as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
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