Ettore Scola
Directing
Born May 10, 1931 in Trevico, Campania, Italy
Ettore Scola (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛttore ˈskɔːla]; 10 May 1931 – 19 January 2016) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He received a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1978 for his film A Special Day and over the course of his film career was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Scola was born in Trevico, Avellino, Campania. From age 15, he became a ghostwriter. He entered the film industry as a screenwriter in 1953, and collaborated with director Dino Risi and fellow writer Ruggero Maccari on the screenplay for Risi's feature, Il Sorpasso (1962). He directed his first film, Let's Talk About Women, in 1964. In 1974 Scola enjoyed international success with We All Loved Each Other So Much (C'eravamo tanto amati), a wide fresco of post-World War II Italian life and politics, dedicated to fellow director Vittorio De Sica. The film won the Golden Prize at the 9th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1976 he won the Prix de la mise en scène at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival for Brutti, sporchi e cattivi.
Filmography
Ciao Marcello - Mastroianni l'antidivo
Self (archive footage)
Down So Long
Les Jours et les Nuits
Self
A Bookshop in Paris
Morceaux de Cannes
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
Self (archive footage)
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Self
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
Self (archive footage)
Puccini: La Bohème
At War for Love
Ridendo e scherzando - Ritratto di un regista all'italiana
Self
Il segreto di Otello
Self
Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori
Self
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
Self
C'era una volta il prossimamente
Self
How Strange to be Named Federico
Alberto il grande
Self
Furio Scarpelli - Il racconto prima di tutto
Sé stesso
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
Self (archive footage)
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
Self
Voi siete qui
Self
Portrait Of My Father
Self
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Self
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Self
Vittorio D.
Self
Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Self
Linee d'ombra
Self
THE INTERPRETER OF BLACK AND WHITE FILMS
Ettore Scola
Marcello, una vita dolce
Self
People of Rome
Letters from Palestine
The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops
The Magic of Fellini
Self (archive footage)
La strana coppia. Incontro con Age e Scarpelli
Self
Unfair Competition
The Dinner
1943-1997
Cresceranno i carciofi a Mimongo
The Story of a Poor Young Man
Mario, Maria and Mario
The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
What Time Is It?
Splendor
Piazza Navona - Sei opere prime
The Family
Macaroni
Cinecittà Cinecittà
Cuori nella tormenta
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Self
Le Bal
That Night of Varennes
American Playhouse
Passion of Love
Vorrei Che Volo
The Terrace
The New Monsters
A Special Day
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Ugly, Dirty and Bad
Midi Première
Self
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Spécial cinéma
Self
Festival dell’Unità 1972
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
My Name Is Rocco Papaleo
That's How We Women Are
A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)
Police Chief Pepe
Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
The Prophet
Anyone Can Play
The Devil in Love
Made in Italy
I Knew Her Well
Thrilling
Complexes
One Million Dollars
The Magnificent Cuckold
Il gaucho
Let's Talk About Women
High Infidelity
The Visitor
I cuori infranti
The Monsters
Il successo
The Girl from Parma
Sex Can Be Difficult
March on Rome
Il Sorpasso
Roaring Years
The Policeman on Horseback
Ghosts of Rome
Adua and Her Friends
Le pillole di Ercole
Love and Larceny
Nel blu dipinto di blu
First Love
Totò in the Moon
March's Child
Il marito
Non sono più guaglione
Il conte Max
Mi permette babbo!
I giorni più belli
Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo
The Bachelor
I pappagalli
It Happened in the Penitentiary
Good night… lawyer!
An American in Rome
A Parisian in Rome
Rosso e nero
It Happened at the Police Station
Gran varietà
Mid-Century Loves
Two Nights with Cleopatra
Ridere! Ridere! Ridere!
Cavalcade of Song
Fermi tutti... arrivo io!
Half a Century of Song