The most awarded italian directors

1. Davide Melini

Davide Melini was born on April 9, 1979 in Rome. His career officially started up in 2004 and, until now, he has directed 6 short films: Amore estremo (2006), La sceneggiatura (2006), The Puzzle (2008), The Sweet Hand of the White Rose (2010), Lion (2017) and Deep Shock (2019).

In his career he has ...

241 Wins 198 Nominations

2. Paolo Sorrentino

Writer | È stata la mano di Dio

Director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino was born in Naples in 1970, and and became an orphan when he lost both of his parents at the age of 16. At the age of 25, after studying for a few years at the Faculty of Economics and Business in University of Naples Federico II, he decided to work in the...

90 Wins (1 BAFTA) 108 Nominations

3. Marco Bellocchio

Writer | Il traditore

Marco Bellocchio is one of the most consistent and most adventurous of today's Italian directors-an achievement all the more remarkable given that he made his feature debut almost fifty years ago. Over those years, he has amassed a body of films that encompasses a large number of original ...

86 Wins 109 Nominations

4. Federica Alice Carlino

Director | The Monster's Club

Federica Alice Carlino, was born in Milan, Italy. Her family moved around Europe and Asia for work, so she had the opportunity to meet new cultures. She grew up in the Netherlands, then moved back to Italy for most of her education, she also studied in London at Richmond Upon Thames College. She ...

83 Wins 36 Nominations

5. Daniele Gangemi

Editor | Ti racconto tuo padre

Daniele Gangemi was born in Catania. At the age of fifteen he was fascinated by the world of photography and began experimenting, photographing and printing with an "analogue" reflex camera and all the tools of the time at his disposal. In those years he too began to work as an author and host in ...

81 Wins 1 Nomination

6. Paolo Virzì

Writer | La prima cosa bella

Paolo Virzì was born on March 4, 1964 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for The First Beautiful Thing (2010), Tutta la vita davanti (2008) and Like Crazy (2016). He has been married to Micaela Ramazzotti since January 17, 2009. They have two children. He was previously ...

74 Wins 58 Nominations

7. Federico Fellini

Writer | Le notti di Cabiria

The women who both attracted and frightened him and an Italy dominated in his youth by Mussolini and Pope Pius XII - inspired the dreams that Fellini started recording in notebooks in the 1960s. Life and dreams were raw material for his films. His native Rimini and characters like Saraghina (the ...

70 Wins 53 Nominations (12 Oscars)

8. Nanni Moretti

Producer | La stanza del figlio

Nanni Moretti was born on the 19th of August, 1953. He lives in Rome, where since he was a kid he devotes himself to his two passions: cinema and water-polo. In 1970 he also played in water-polo first division in Italy, and in the junior National team. In those years he was also very committed in ...

63 Wins 97 Nominations

9. Roberto Benigni

Actor | La vita è bella

Roberto Benigni was born on October 27, 1952 in Manciano La Misericordia, Castiglion Fiorentino, Tuscany, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Life Is Beautiful (1997), The Tiger and the Snow (2005) and Down by Law (1986). He has been married to Nicoletta Braschi since December 26, 1991.

63 Wins (1 Oscar) 43 Nominations

10. Giuseppe Tornatore

Director | La migliore offerta

Giuseppe Tornatore was born on May 27, 1956 in Bagheria, Sicily, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for The Best Offer (2013), Cinema Paradiso (1988) and The Legend of 1900 (1998). He is married to Roberta Pacetti.

58 Wins 56 Nominations 2 BAFTA

11. Paolo Taviani

Director | La notte di San Lorenzo

Paolo Taviani studied liberal arts at the University of Pisa, becoming interested in the cinema after seeing Roberto Rossellini's Paisan (1946). After writing and directing short films and plays with his brother Vittorio, he made his first feature in 1962. The brothers have continued to work ...

59 Wins 34 Nominations

12. Vittorio Taviani

Director | La notte di San Lorenzo

Vittorio Taviani studied law at the University of Pisa, becoming interested in the cinema after seeing Roberto Rossellini's Paisan (1946). After writing and directing short films and plays with his brother Paolo, he made his first feature in 1962. The brothers have continued to work together ever ...

57 WIns 32 Nominations

13. Gianni Amelio

Director | Il ladro di bambini

After school, Amelio studied philosophy. He graduated with a doctorate. Amelio developed a keen interest in film at a young age. In 1970 he began working as a cameraman for the Italian state television RAI. A little later, Amelio worked as an assistant director for RAI. In 1970 he directed his ...

56 Wins 42 Nominations

14. Ettore Scola

Writer | Una giornata particolare

Ettore Scola was born on May 10, 1931 in Trevico, Campania, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for A Special Day (1977), The Family (1987) and Passion of Love (1981). He was married to Gigliola. He died on January 19, 2016 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

56 Wins 38 Nominations

15. Bernardo Bertolucci

Writer | Il conformista

Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian director whose films were known for their colorful visual style, was born in Parma, Italy. He attended Rome University and became famous as a poet. He served as assistant director for Pier Paolo Pasolini in the film Accattone (1961) and directed The Grim Reaper (...

52 Wins 38 Nominations 2 Oscars

16. Ermanno Olmi

Director | L'albero degli zoccoli

Ermanno Olmi was born on July 24, 1931 in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978), The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988) and Il posto (1961). He was married to Loredana Detto. He died on May 5, 2018 in Asiago, Veneto, Italy.

54 Wins 26 Nominations

17. Michelangelo Antonioni

Writer | Blow-Up

Together with Fellini, Bergman and Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni is credited with defining the modern art film. And yet Antonioni's cinema is also recognized today for defying any easy categorization, with his films ultimately seeming to belong to their own distinctive genre. Indeed, the ...

50 Wins 29 Nominations 2 Oscars

18. Matteo Garrone

Director | Dogman

Matteo Garrone was born in Rome in 1968. He is the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone, and a photographer. In 1996 he won the Sacher d'Oro, an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short film Silhouette (1996), that became one of the three episodes of his first feature film Land in Between ...

48 Wins 76 Nominations

19. Ferzan Özpetek

Director | La finestra di fronte

He is a Turkish-Italian director, screenwriter and writer. In 1976, he first went to Perugia Foreigners University in Italy, learned Italian for a year, and then transferred to Rome La Sapienza University to study cinema. After completing his education there, he went to Accademia Navona and ...

46 Wins 57 Nominations

20. Francesco Rosi

Writer | Cadaveri eccellenti

His father was a shipowner. After school, Rosi initially began studying law, which he soon dropped out to work as a broadcast journalist and book illustrator in Naples. From 1944 to 1945 he worked for "Radio Napoli". In the immediate post-war years, Rosi moved to Rome, where he came into contact ...

42 Wins 25 Nominations 1 BAFTA

21. Mario Martone

Director | L'amore molesto

Mario Martone was born on November 20, 1959 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for L'amore molesto (1995), The King of Laughter (2021) and Capri-Revolution (2018). He has been married to Ippolita Di Majo since 2010. They have one child.

39 Wins 45 Nominations

22. Marco Tullio Giordana

Director | Romanzo di una strage

Marco Tullio Giordana was born on October 1, 1950 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012), One Hundred Steps (2000) and The Best of Youth (2003).

37 Wins 29 Nominations

23. Alberto Sordi

Actor | Io e Caterina

One of Italy's most captivating and talented cinematic comedy stars, Italian veteran Alberto Sordi was known for satirizing his country's social mores in pungent black comedies, farcical tales and grim drama. He, along with peers Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi and Nino Manfredi, arguably represent ...

36 Wins 17 Nominations (1 BAFTA)

24. Mario Monicelli

Writer | I compagni

Mario Monicelli was born on May 16, 1915 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for The Organizer (1963), Speriamo che sia femmina (1986) and Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958). He was married to Chiara Rapaccini and Antonella Salerni. He died on November 29, 2010 in Rome, Lazio,...

35 Wins 27 Nominations 2 Oscars

25. Luchino Visconti

Writer | Il gattopardo

Born in his ancestral palazzo, situated in the same Milanese square as both the opera house La Scala and the Milan Cathedral, Luchino Visconti (1906 - 1976) was raised under the auspices of aristocratic privilege, theater and Catholicism. This triangulation of monuments would create an equally ...

36 Wins 28 Nominations 1 Oscar

26. Michele Placido

Actor | La piovra

Michele Placido was born on May 19, 1946 in Ascoli Satriano, Puglia, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for La piovra (1984), Romanzo Criminale (2005) and Un eroe borghese (1995). He has been married to Federica Vincenti since August 14, 2012. They have one child. He was previously married to ...

32 Wins 34 Nominations

27. Pietro Germi

Writer | Il ferroviere

Pietro Germi was born on September 14, 1914 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for The Railroad Man (1956), Divorce Italian Style (1961) and The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966). He was married to Olga D'Aiello and Anna Bancio. He died on December 5, 1974 in Rome, ...

30 Wins 22 Nominations 1 Oscar

28. Vittorio De Sica

Director | Ladri di biciclette

Vittorio De Sica grew up in Naples, and started out as an office clerk in order to raise money to support his poor family. He was increasingly drawn towards acting, and made his screen debut while still in his teens, joining a stage company in 1923. By the late 1920s he was a successful matinee ...

30 Wins 15 Nominations 1 Oscar

29. Alice Rohrwacher

Director | Lazzaro felice

Alice Rohrwacher was born on December 29, 1981 in Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy. She is a director and writer, known for Happy as Lazzaro (2018), La Chimera (2023) and The Wonders (2014).

30 Wins 51 Nominations

30. Luca Guadagnino

Director | Call Me by Your Name

Luca Guadagnino was born on August 10, 1971 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is a director and producer, known for Call Me by Your Name (2017), Suspiria (2018) and Bones and All (2022).

29 Wins 78 Nominations (1 Oscar)

31. Jonas Carpignano

Writer | A Ciambra

Jonas Carpignano was born in 1984 and grew up between New York City and Rome. His first feature film Mediterranea debuted at the Cannes Film Festival -Semaine de la Critique in 2015 before receiving the award for the best directorial debut of 2015 by the National Board of Review and Gotham ...

28 Wins 45 Nominatiosn

32. Daniele Ciprì

Cinematographer | È stato il figlio

Daniele Ciprì was born on August 17, 1962 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is a cinematographer and director, known for It Was the Son (2012), Il ritorno di Cagliostro (2003) and Lo zio di Brooklyn (1995).

26 Wins 34 Nominations

33. Giorgio Diritti

Director | Il vento fa il suo giro

Giorgio Diritti was born on December 21, 1959 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for The Wind Blows Round (2005), The Man Who Will Come (2009) and Hidden Away (2020).

26 Wins 28 Nominations

34. Francesca Archibugi

Writer | Mignon è partita

Francesca Archibugi was born on May 16, 1960 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is a writer and director, known for Mignon è partita (1988), Questione di cuore (2009) and Il grande cocomero (1993). She is married to Battista Lena. They have three children.

24 Wins 25 Nominations

35. Pupi Avati

Writer | Gli amici del bar Margherita

Pupi Avati was born on November 3, 1938 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Gli amici del bar Margherita (2009), Giovanna's Father (2008) and The Story of Boys & Girls (1989). He has been married to Amelia Turri since 1964. They have three children.

26 Wins 55 Nominations

36. Silvio Soldini

Writer | Pane e tulipani

Silvio Soldini was born on August 11, 1958 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Bread and Tulips (2000), Days and Clouds (2007) and L'aria serena dell'Ovest (1990).

25 Wins 42 Nominations

37. Pietro Marcello

Director | Bella e perduta

Pietro Marcello was born on July 2, 1976 in Caserta, Campania, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Lost and Beautiful (2015), Martin Eden (2019) and Scarlet (2022).

25 Wins 40 Nominations

38. Gabriele Salvatores

Director | Nirvana

Salvatores attended school in the Lombard metropolis. He started doing theater there. After graduating from high school, Salvatores enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the University of Milan in 1968. He then studied at the Accademia d''arte drammatica, a drama school at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano....

25 Wins 29 Nominations

39. Francesco Bruni

Writer | Scialla! (Stai sereno)

Francesco Bruni was born on September 30, 1961 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Easy! (2011), Tutto quello che vuoi (2017) and Human Capital (2013). He has been married to Raffaella Lebboroni since September 19, 1992. They have two children.

24 Wins 37 Nominations

40. Daniele Lince

Writer | Tra gli alberi

Daniele Lince is a film director, screenwriter, and editor. He believes that stories can change the world and his goal is to find the best way to tell them. Since 2016 he has worked with Elena Beatrice as director/screenwriter duo. Their works have been selected by several festivals, including ...

24 Wins 36 Nominations

41. Michela Occhipinti

Director | Letters from the Desert (Eulogy to Slowness)

Michela Occhipinti is known for Letters from the Desert (Eulogy to Slowness) (2010), Flesh Out (2019) and Harb Atalia (2005).

24 Wins 27 Nominations

42. Pier Paolo Pasolini

Writer | Il Decameron

Pier Paolo Pasolini achieved fame and notoriety long before he entered the film industry. A published poet at 19, he had already written numerous novels and essays before his first screenplay in 1954. His first film Accattone (1961) was based on his own novel and its violent depiction of the life ...

22 Wins 24 Nominations

43. Andrea Natale

Director | Appunti di viaggio: Journey notes

Andrea Natale was born in Rome in 1986. Andrea attended the University La Sapienza of Rome, where he began to cultivate a passion for cinema. Then he attended Act Academy of cinema and television in Cinecittà and the University Roma Tre. He is a director and an author for cinematographic ...

22 Wins 5 Nominations

44. Marco Ferreri

Writer | Storie di ordinaria follia

Marco Ferreri was born on May 11, 1928 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981), L'udienza (1972) and El cochecito (1960). He was married to Jacqueline Ferreri. He died on May 9, 1997 in Paris, France.

21 Wins 28 Nominations

45. Roberto Minervini

Producer | Stop the Pounding Heart

Roberto Minervini was born in 1970 in Fermo, Marche, Italy. Roberto is a director and producer, known for Stop The Pounding Heart (2013), The Other Side (2015) and What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (2018).

19 Wins 21 Nominations

46. Franco Zeffirelli

Director | Romeo and Juliet

Franco Zeffirelli is an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television. He was also a senator from 1994 until 2001 for the Italian center-right Forza Italia party. Some of his operatic designs and productions have become worldwide classics.

He was known for several of the movies he ...

19 Wins 12 Nominations 2 Oscars

47. Giulio Base

Actor | All the Money in the World

Giulio Base, was born in Turin (Italy). He achieved two Doctorates. The first one in Literature and Philosophy and the second one in Theology. He's a Mensa Member (the society of people whose IQ is in the top 2% of the population). He started as an actor studying in Florence at the School for ...

20 Wins 26 Nominations

48. Gabriele Mainetti

Director | Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot

Gabriele Mainetti (born November 7, 1976) is an Italian actor, director, composer and a film producer. He attended courses in directing, screenwriting and cinematography at the Tisch School of the Arts NY and improved his acting skills under the guide of important masters as Beatrice Bracco, ...

20 Wins 20 Nominations

49. Paolo Genovese

Writer | Perfetti sconosciuti

Paolo Genovese was born on August 20, 1966 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Perfect Strangers (2016), The Immature (2011) and The Place (2017).

19 Wins 28 Nominations

50. Elena Beatrice

Writer | Verdiana

Elena Beatrice is a film director, screenwriter, and illustrator. She believes that stories can change the world and her goal is to find the best way to tell them. Since 2016 she has worked with Daniele Lince as director/screenwriter duo. Their works have been selected by several festivals, ...

19 Wins 26 Nominations

51. Francisco Saia

Director | Dalì 2021

He was born in Savona on September 18, 1998, from a Sicilian father and a Piedmontese mother. After graduating from high school of human sciences, in 2018 he graduated in film directing and screenwriting at the school of cinematographic art in Genoa. After studying film, he began working as a ...

18 Wins 29 Nominations

52. Saverio Costanzo

Director | Hungry Hearts

Saverio Costanzo was born on September 28, 1975 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Hungry Hearts (2014), My Brilliant Friend (2018) and Private (2004).

18 Wins 28 Nominations

53. Ricky Tognazzi

Director | Ultrà

Ricky Tognazzi was born on May 1, 1955 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor and director, known for Ultrà (1991), Canone Inverso (2000) and La scorta (1993). He has been married to Simona Izzo since June 1995. He was previously married to Flavia Toso.

18 Wins 18 Nominations

54. Edoardo Leo

Actor | Diciotto anni dopo

Edoardo Leo was born on April 21, 1972 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for 18 Years Later (2010), The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles (2015) and Perfect Strangers (2016).

18 Wins 13 Nominations

55. Luigi Comencini

Writer | Voltati Eugenio

Luigi Comencini was born on June 8, 1916 in Salò, Lombardy, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Voltati Eugenio (1980), Everybody Go Home! (1960) and Bread, Love and Dreams (1953). He was married to Giulia Grifeo. He died on April 6, 2007 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

18 Wins 11 Nominations

56. Gabriele Muccino

Director | Seven Pounds

Gabriele Muccino was born on May 20, 1967 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Seven Pounds (2008), The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) and The Last Kiss (2001). He has been married to Angelica Russo since December 22, 2012. They have one child. He was previously married to ...

17 Wins 30 Nominations

57. Roberto Faenza

Writer | Jona che visse nella balena

Roberto Faenza was born on February 21, 1943 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Look to the Sky (1993), Escalation (1968) and I Viceré (2007).

17 Wins 21 Nominations

58. Marco Risi

Director | Fortapàsc

Marco Risi was born on June 4, 1951 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Fort Apache Napoli (2009), Forever Mary (1989) and Ragazzi fuori (1990).

16 Wins 23 Nominations

59. Giuliano Montaldo

Writer | L'industriale

Born in 1930 in Genoa. Still a young student in 1950 when director Carlo Lizzani gave him a role in the film Achtung Banditi!. Following this experience he traveled to Rome where, after acting in film and theater, he became the assistant director to Lizzani, Gillo Pontecorvo, Sergio Leone, ...

16 Wins 16 Nominations

60. Alberto Lattuada

Writer | Guendalina

Alberto Lattuada was born on November 13, 1914 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Guendalina (1957), Flesh Will Surrender (1947) and Bambina (1974). He was married to Carla Del Poggio. He died on July 3, 2005 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

16 Wins 10 Nominations

61. Bruno Bozzetto

Director | Allegro non troppo

Bruno Bozzetto was born on March 3, 1938 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Allegro non troppo (1976), La cabina (1973) and Self Service (1974).

15 Wins 7 Nominations 1 Oscar

62. Fabio D'Innocenzo

Writer | Favolacce

Fabio D'Innocenzo was born on July 14, 1988 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Bad Tales (2020), Boys Cry (2018) and America Latina (2021).

15 Wins 20 Nominations

63. Damiano D'Innocenzo

Writer | Favolacce

Damiano D'Innocenzo was born on July 14, 1988 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Bad Tales (2020), Boys Cry (2018) and America Latina (2021).

15 Wins 20 Nominations

64. Lina Wertmüller

Writer | Pasqualino Settebellezze

During the 1970s, Lina Wertmüller emblazoned her name into the pantheon of Italian cinema with a series of intensely polemical, deeply controversial and wonderfully entertaining films. Among the most politically outspoken and iconoclastic members of the second generation of postwar directors - the ...

14 Wins 19 Nominations (2 Oscars)

65. Massimo Troisi

Actor | Il postino

His acting career started when he was 15 in a theatre (Centro Teatro Spazio). In 1969 he founded the group "I saraceni" (later renamed "La smorfia") with Enzo Decaro and Lello Arena. He became famous to the TV audience between 1976 and 1979 with two TV programs "Non Stop" and "Luna Park". First ...

14 Wins 14 Nominations (2 Oscars)

66. Elio Petri

Writer | Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto

Elio Petri was born on January 29, 1929 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), We Still Kill the Old Way (1967) and His Days Are Numbered (1962). He was married to Paola Pegoraro. He died on November 10, 1982 in Rome, Lazio,...

14 Wins 13 Nominations (1 Oscar)

67. Pif

Writer | La mafia uccide solo d'estate

Pif was born on June 4, 1972 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2013), At War with Love (2016) and E noi come stronzi rimanemmo a guardare (2021).

14 Wins 9 Nominations

68. Ugo Tognazzi

Actor | La Cage aux folles

Among others of Ugo Tognazzi's superb, award-winning performances of his prolific career, this excellent Italian character star has been widely cherished for his classic comedy role of gay cabaret owner Renato Baldi, opposite Michel Serrault's hilariously mincing drag queen partner Alban, in La ...

14 Wins 8 Nominations

69. Dario Argento

Writer | Profondo rosso

Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940, in Rome, Italy, the first-born son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo. Argento recalls getting his ideas for filmmaking from his close-knit family from Italian folk tales told by his parents and other ...

14 Wins 8 Nominations

70. Renato Castellani

Writer | Romeo and Juliet

Renato Castellani was born on September 4, 1913 in Finale Ligure, Liguria, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Romeo and Juliet (1954), Two Cents Worth of Hope (1952) and Sotto il sole di Roma (1948). He died on December 28, 1985 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

14 Wins 7 Nominations (1 BAFTA)

71. Laura Bispuri

Director | Figlia mia

Laura Bispuri is a director and writer, known for _Sworn Virgin (2015)_ and _Daughter of Mine (2018)_ both presented in Competition at the Berlinale, in 2015 and 2018. She was awarded with the David di Donatello in 2010 for Best Short Film for _Passing Time (2010)_ and with Nastro d'Argento in 2011...

13 Wins 25 Nominations

72. Cristina Comencini

Writer | Il più bel giorno della mia vita

Cristina Comencini was born in Rome in 1956. Her father was the Italian director Luigi Comencini and with him she began her career as a screenwriter, co-writing Il matrimonio di Caterina (1982), Buon Natale... Buon anno (1989), Quattro storie di donne (1986), Cuore and La Storia.

Graduated in ...

13 Wins 23 Nominations

73. Carlo Mazzacurati

Writer | La giusta distanza

Carlo Mazzacurati was born on March 2, 1956 in Padua, Veneto, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for The Right Distance (2007), Another Life (1992) and La sedia della felicità (2013). He was married to Marina Zangirolami. He died on January 22, 2014 in Padua, Veneto, Italy.

13 Wins 23 Nominations

74. Susanna Nicchiarelli

Director | Cosmonauta

Susanna Nicchiarelli was born on May 6, 1975 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is a director and writer, known for Cosmonauta (2009), Nico, 1988 (2017) and Miss Marx (2020).

13 Wins 17 Nominations

75. Dino Risi

Director | Il sorpasso

Dino Risi became a movie director by chance. In 1940 he met Alberto Lattuada at a friend's boutique. Lattuada told him they needed an assistant director for the movie Piccolo mondo antico (1941). Risi accepted just for fun, not for work. Later, he became a psychiatrist and wrote some articles for a...

13 Wins 15 Nominations (1 Oscar)

76. Paolo Zucca

Director | L'arbitro

Paolo Zucca is known for L'arbitro (2009), The Referee (2013) and The Man Who Bought the Moon (2018).

13 Wins 14 Nominations

77. Nanni Loy

Director | Le quattro giornate di Napoli

Nanni Loy was born on October 23, 1925 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for The Four Days of Naples (1962), Scugnizzi (1989) and Il padre di famiglia (1967). He was married to Bianca Marchesano. He died on August 21, 1995 in Fiumicino, Lazio, Italy.

13 Wins 11 Nominations (1 Oscar)

78. Giorgio Molteni

Director | Dead Man Wait

Giorgio Molteni is known for Dead Man Wait (2018), Martina sa nuotare (2019) and Legami sporchi (2004).

13 Wins 3 Nominations

79. Max Nardari

Director | La mia famiglia a soqquadro

Max Nardari, born in Padova, is a director, screenwriter, producer and music composer. Max graduated in Dams in Bologna with a thesis on Pedro Almodovar. He graduated in Nuct of Cinecittà and began his career by directing many videoclips and writing for several Italian interpreters including Raf, ...

13 Wins 2 Nominations

80. John Real

Producer | The Music Box

Described by many critics as a promising director with a touch of Hollywood theatricality, Giovanni Marzagalli, known by his artistic name John Real, has made a name for himself in the Italian film scene with remarkable performances in genre cinema. This talented young artist from Catania has ...

13 Wins

81. Gianluca De Serio

Director | Sette opere di misericordia

Gianluca De Serio is known for Seven Acts of Mercy (2011), Zakaria (2005) and The Stonebreaker (2020).

12 Wins 17 Nominations

82. Frank Capra

Director | It's a Wonderful Life

One of seven children, Frank Capra was born on May 18, 1897, in Bisacquino, Sicily. On May 10, 1903, his family left for America aboard the ship Germania, arriving in New York on May 23rd. "There's no ventilation, and it stinks like hell. They're all miserable. It's the most degrading place you ...

9 Wins 14 Nominations 3 Oscars

83. Maura Delpero

Director | Maternal

Maura Delpero is known for Maternal (2019), Signori professori (2008) and Nadea e Sveta (2012).

12 Wins 12 Nominations

84. Vittorio De Seta

Director | Banditi a Orgosolo

Vittorio De Seta was born on October 15, 1923 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Bandits of Orgosolo (1961), Un uomo a metà (1966) and Islands of Fire (1955). He died on November 28, 2011 in Sellia Marina, Calabria, Italy.

12 Wins 3 Nominations

85. Fausto Brizzi

Writer | Notte prima degli esami

He didn't become famous until 2006, although he had been working in movies and television for over a decade. Like many other aspiring filmmakers living in the Rome area, Fausto Brizzi studied at the Centro Sperimentale, and after graduating in 1994 he started looking for work. Initially, the 28-...

11 Wins 20 Nominations

86. Massimiliano De Serio

Director | Sette opere di misericordia

Massimiliano De Serio is known for Seven Acts of Mercy (2011), Zakaria (2005) and The Stonebreaker (2020).

11 Wins 17 Nominations

87. Roberta Torre

Director | Tano da morire

After studying philosophy at the University of Milan, he specialized in the Paolo Grassi School of dramatic art in dramaturgy and film direction at the Civic School of Cinema Luchino Visconti. At the same time he participated in the collective workshop Ipotesi Cinema, founded by Ermanno Olmi . Hers...

11 Wins 16 Nominations

88. Salvatore Mereu

Director | Bellas mariposas

Salvatore Mereu was born in 1965 in Dorgali, Sardinia, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Pretty Butterflies (2012), Ballo a tre passi (2003) and Assandira (2020).

11 Wins 11 Nominations

89. Luca Cutini

Director | CAFka

Luca Cutini is known for CAFka (2021), Rifugi (2019) and Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022).

11 Wins

90. Antonio La Camera

Editor | Nel Ritrovo del Silenzio

Antonio La Camera was born in Castrovillari, in 1990. After graduating with honors in Cinema and Visual Arts at the Roma Tre University, he attended courses in directing and screenwriting at the film school Sentieri Selvaggi in Rome.

His short films "Carne e Polvere", "Il Sogno del Vecchio" e "Nel ...

10 Wins 26 Nominations

91. Giovanni Veronesi

Writer | Manuale d'amore

Giovanni Veronesi was born on August 31, 1962 in Prato, Tuscany, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Manual of Love (2005), Che ne sarà di noi (2004) and Italians (2009).

10 Wins 16 Nominations

92. Fabio Carpi

Writer | Nel profondo paese straniero

Fabio Carpi was born on January 19, 1925 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Nel profondo paese straniero (1997), Corpo d'amore (1973) and Il quartetto Basileus (1982). He died on December 26, 2018 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

10 Wins 11 Nominations

93. Liliana Cavani

Director | L'ospite

Liliana Cavani was born on January 12, 1933 in Carpi, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She is a director and writer, known for L'ospite (1971), Dove siete? Io sono qui (1993) and The Night Porter (1974).

9 Wins 13 Nominations

94. Luigi Zampa

Writer | Processo alla città

Abandoning earlier studies in architecture and engineering, Luigi Zampa learned screenwriting and directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, between 1932 and 1937. He went on to make military training films for the Italian army during World War II, as well as collaborating on ...

9 wins 8 nominations

95. Valerio Zurlini

Writer | Cronaca familiare

Valerio Zurlini was born on March 19, 1926. During his law studies in Rome, he started working in the theatre. In 1943, he joined the Italian resistance. Zurlini became a member of the Italian Communist Party. He filmed short documentaries in the immediate post-war period and in 1954 directed his ...

9 Wins 8 Nominations

96. Claudio Caligari

Director | Non essere cattivo

Claudio Caligari was born on February 7, 1948 in Arona, Novara, Piedmont, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Don't Be Bad (2015), Toxic Love (1983) and The Scent of the Night (1998). He died on May 26, 2015 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

9 Wins 4 Nominations

97. Franco Maresco

Director | Belluscone. Una storia siciliana

Franco Maresco was born on May 5, 1958 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Belluscone. Una storia siciliana (2014), Lo zio di Brooklyn (1995) and How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio (2004).

8 Wins 17 Nominations

98. Edoardo De Angelis

Writer | Indivisibili

Edoardo De Angelis was born on August 31, 1978 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Indivisible (2016), The Vice of Hope (2018) and Perez. (2014). He is married to Pina Turco. They have one child.

8 Wins 14 Nominations

99. Emma Dante

Writer | Via Castellana Bandiera

Emma Dante was born on April 6, 1967 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. She is a writer and director, known for A Street in Palermo (2013), The Macaluso Sisters (2020) and Misericordia (2023).

8 Wins 16 Nominations

100. Florestano Vancini

Director | Le stagioni del nostro amore

Florestano Vancini was born on August 24, 1926 in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Seasons of Our Love (1966), It Happened in '43 (1960) and The Assassination of Matteotti (1973). He was married to Liliana Ferrari. He died on September 18, 2008 in Rome, Lazio,...

8 Wins 5 Nominations