About
Vittorio De Sica (7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement. Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: Sciuscià and Bicycle Thieves (honorary), while Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and Il giardino dei Finzi Contini won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Indeed, the great critical success of Sciuscià (the first foreign film to be so recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) and Bicycle Thieves helped establish the permanent Best Foreign Film Award. These two films are considered part of the canon of classic cinema. Bicycle Thieves was cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the 15 most influential films in cinema history. De Sica was also nominated for the 1957 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor's 1957 adaptation of...
Known for
Bicycle ThievesMovie • 1948
We All Loved Each Other So MuchMovie • 1974
A Farewell to ArmsMovie • 1957
Two WomenMovie • 1960
AusterlitzMovie • 1960
Marriage Italian StyleMovie • 1964
Umberto D.Movie • 1952
The Garden of the Finzi-ContinisMovie • 1970
SunflowerMovie • 1970
It Started in NaplesMovie • 1960
Yesterday, Today and TomorrowMovie • 1963
Blood for DraculaMovie • 1974
ShoeshineMovie • 1946
FriskyMovie • 1954
The Earrings of Madame de...Movie • 1953
Boccaccio '70Movie • 1962
The WitchesMovie • 1967
Woman Times SevenMovie • 1967
The Adventures of PinocchioMovie • 1972
General Della RovereMovie • 1959
The Gold of NaplesMovie • 1954
Bread, Love and DreamsMovie • 1953
The Shoes of the FishermanMovie • 1968
Indiscretion of an American WifeMovie • 1953