Fellini had two siblings, Riccardo (1921–1991), a documentary director for RAI Television, and Maria Maddalena (m.

The couple settled in Rimini where Urbano became a traveling salesman and wholesale vendor.

A civil marriage followed in 1918 with the religious ceremony held at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome a year later. Despite her family's vehement disapproval, she had eloped with Urbano in 1917 to live at his parents' home in Gambettola. His mother, Ida Barbiani (1896–1984), came from a bourgeois Catholic family of Roman merchants. His father, Urbano Fellini (1894–1956), born to a family of Romagnol peasants and small landholders from Gambettola, moved to Rome in 1915 as a baker apprenticed to the Pantanella pasta factory. On 25 January, at the San Nicolò church he was baptized Federico Domenico Marcello Fellini. 2.7 Late films and projects (1981–1990)Įarly life and education Rimini (1920–1938) įellini was born on 20 January 1920, to middle-class parents in Rimini, then a small town on the Adriatic Sea.Fellini was ranked 2nd in the directors' poll and 7th in the critics' poll in Sight & Sound's 2002 list of the greatest directors of all time. His other well-known films include La Strada (1954), Nights of Cabiria (1957), 8½ (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), the 'Toby Dammit' segment of Spirits of the Dead (1968), Fellini Satyricon (1969), Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973), and Fellini's Casanova (1976). He received an honorary award for Lifetime Achievement at the 65th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. His films have ranked highly in critical polls such as that of Cahiers du Cinéma and Sight & Sound, which lists his 1963 film 8 + 1⁄ 2 as the 10th-greatest film.įor La Dolce Vita Fellini won the Palme d'Or additionally, he was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, and won four in the category of Best Foreign Language Film, the most for any director in the history of the Academy. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( Italian: 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness.

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