Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer. Best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents" — L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962), as well as the English-language Blowup (1966), Antonioni "redefined the concept of narrative cinema" and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large. He produced "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" and rejected action in favor of contemplation, focusing on image and design over character and story. His films defined a "cinema of possibilities".
Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize (1960, 1962), Palme d'Or (1966), and 35th Anniversary Prize (1982); the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion (1955), Golden Lion (1964), FIPRESCI Prize (1964, 1995), and Pietro Bianchi Award (1998); the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon eight times; and an honorary Academy Award in 1995. He is one of three directors to have won the Palme d'Or, the Golden Lion and the Golden Bear, and the only director to have won these three and the Golden Leopard.
Acting
TV
The Oscars
as Self
1953
Movie
Room 666
as Self
1985
Movie
Michelangelo Eye to Eye
as Self
2004
Movie
Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials
as Self
1965
Movie
Wandering Heart
as Self
2009
Movie
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2018
Movie
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
as Self
1984
Movie
Cinéma et Réalité
as Self
1967
Movie
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Movie
Back to Room 666
as Self (archive footage)
2008
Movie
Words in Progress
2004
Movie
Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up
as Self (archive footage)
2002
TV
Reflets de Cannes
as Self
1954
Movie
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Movie
Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2001
Movie
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
as Self (uncredited)
1995
Movie
Un po' di Giappone
as Self (uncredited)
1990
Movie
Antonioni, la dernière séquence
as himself
1985
Movie
A Thousand and One Monica
2006
Movie
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
as Self (archive footage)
Movie
Antonioni visto da Antonioni
as Self
1978
Movie
Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima
as Self
2007
Movie
Underground New York
as Self
1968
Movie
Dear Antonioni
as Self
1995
Crew
Movie
Blow-Up
Screenplay
1966
Movie
L'Avventura
Screenplay
1960
Movie
La Notte
Screenplay
1961
Movie
The Passenger
Screenplay
1975
Movie
L'Eclisse
Director
1962
Movie
Red Desert
Director
1964
Movie
Zabriskie Point
Screenplay
1970
Movie
The White Sheik
Story
1952
Movie
Il Grido
Director
1957
Movie
Eros
Director
2004
Movie
Beyond the Clouds
Director
1995
Movie
Story of a Love Affair
Director
1950