Federico Fellini

Also known as Frederico Fellini, Fellas, Federico

Italian filmmaker (1920–1993)

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Federico Fellini was an Italian film director, screenwriter, satirist, and writer. Born in Rimini on January 20, 1920, he worked primarily in Rome. He was married to Giulietta Masina and spoke German, English, and Italian. Fellini was influenced by Charlie Chaplin and Pablo Picasso. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Académie des beaux-arts.

Fellini received several awards, including the Praemium Imperiale, Academy Honorary Award, BAFTA Award for Best Production Design, and Bodil Awards. He was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Writing (Original and Adapted Screenplay) and Best Director. His notable works include *Huit et demi* and *8 1/2*. He died of myocardial infarction in Rome on October 31, 1993.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1920
Died: 1993
Works: 125

Top works

Huit et demi
Bilder und Zeichnungen
Qualità
Kinoararum
8 1/2 [i. e. Huit et demi] de Fellini

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Film & TV

Directing · Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Federico Fellini, Knight Grand Cross (January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993), was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century. Personal and highly idiosyncratic visions of society, Fellini's films are a unique combination of memory,…

Known for

Federico Fellini: Fabbricante di Illusioni — Self2025
Quelli che il cinema — Self2025
Ciao Marcello - Mastroianni l'antidivo — Self (archive footage)2024
Fellini, confidences retrouvées — Self2023
Fellini by Fellini2023
Fellinopolis — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2021
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita — Self (archive footage)2021
Morceaux de Cannes2021
Lindsay Dances - Theatre and life according to Lindsay Kemp — Self2020
Fantastic Mr. Fellini - Intervista con Wes Anderson — Self (archive footage)2020

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: Italy
Active from: 1920
Active to: 1993

Discography

La dolce vita2020

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 394
Total plays: 1,879

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"Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI, was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century, and is widely revered. He won five Academy Awards in a career that spanned over forty years." -from Wikipedia <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Federico+Fellini">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Light Propagation with Phase Discontinuities: Generalized Laws of Reflection and Refraction
· 2011 · cited 9,644x
Human gut microbiome viewed across age and geography
· 2012 · cited 6,825x
Liver Transplantation for the Treatment of Small Hepatocellular Carcinomas in Patients with Cirrhosis
· 1996 · cited 6,006x
Flat optics with designer metasurfaces
· 2014 · cited 5,516x
The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,772x

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Quotes

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”
“Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.”
“Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can’t teach old fleas new dogs.”
“Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.”
“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one — which is really the realm of the artist.”
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”

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Official website

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Encyclopedic overview

Federico Fellini ( Italian: [fedeˈriːko felˈliːni]; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style that blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. Recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films rank highly in critical polls such as that of Cahiers du Cinéma and Sight & Sound, which lists his 1963 8½ as the 10th-greatest film of all time.

Fellini's best-known films include I Vitelloni (1953), La Strada (1954), Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), Fellini Satyricon (1969), Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973), and Fellini's Casanova (1976).

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