VITTORIO DE SICA
DIRECTING
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.
- Sunflower 1970
- Umberto D. 1952
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1970
- Bicycle Thieves 1948
- Two Women 1960
- The Witches 1967
- Teresa Venerdì 1941
- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 1963
- Miracle in Milan 1951
- Woman Times Seven 1967
- Shoeshine 1946
- Maddalena, Zero for Conduct 1940
- The Children Are Watching Us 1943
- Boccaccio '70 1962
- Marriage Italian Style 1964
- After the Fox 1966
- The Boom 1963
- The Gold of Naples 1954
- Indiscretion of an American Wife 1953
- A Brief Vacation 1973
- The Last Judgment 1961
- A Place for Lovers 1968
- The Voyage 1974
- The Couples 1970
- The Roof 1956
- The Condemned of Altona 1962
- We'll Call Him Andrea 1972
- Red Roses 1940
- A Garibaldian in the Convent 1942
- The Gate of Heaven 1945
- A Young World 1966
- Heart 1948