Vittorio De Sica
Directing
1901-07-07 · Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
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. These two films are considered part of the canon of classic cinema. Bicycle Thieves was cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the 15 most influential films in cinema history. De Sica was also nominated for the 1957 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor's 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, a movie that was panned by critics and proved a box office flop. De Sica's acting was considered the highlight of the film.
Filmography
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
2026 · Movie
Quelli che il cinema
2025 · Series
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022 · Movie
We Are Cinema
2021 · Movie
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
2021 · Movie
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021 · Movie
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
2019 · Movie
1960
2010 · Movie
Vittorio D.
2009 · Movie
The Sons of His Mistress
2007 · Movie
Working with De Sica
2007 · Movie
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005 · Movie
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004 · Movie
Cesare Zavattini
2003 · Movie
That's Life: Vittorio De Sica
2001 · Movie
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985 · Movie
My Name Is Anna Magnani
1980 · Movie
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
1975 · Movie
We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974 · Movie
Blood for Dracula
1974 · Movie
The Voyage
1974 · Movie
Fly Girl, Fly, You've Got Music in your Veins
1973 · Movie
The Assassination of Matteotti
1973 · Movie
A Brief Vacation
1973 · Movie
Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
1973 · Movie
The Small Miracle
1973 · Movie
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1972 · Movie
We'll Call Him Andrea
1972 · Movie
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1972 · Series
Scandal Man
1972 · Movie
Snow Job
1972 · Movie
Hector the Mighty
1972 · Movie
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
1971 · Movie
Trastevere
1971 · Movie
Birth of the Republic
1971 · Series
I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
1971 · Movie
Mafia Things
1971 · Movie
Samedi soir
1971 · Series
The Couples
1970 · Movie
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970 · Movie
Io e Dio
1970 · Movie
Sunflower
1970 · Movie
Twelve Plus One
1969 · Movie
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
1969 · Movie
A Place for Lovers
1968 · Movie
The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968 · Movie
Dear Caroline
1968 · Movie
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
1968 · Movie
An Italian in America
1967 · Movie
Woman Times Seven
1967 · Movie
The Witches
1967 · Movie
Cinéma et Réalité
1967 · Movie
Lionpower from MGM
1967 · Movie
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
1966 · Movie
After the Fox
1966 · Movie
Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti
1966 · Movie
A Young World
1966 · Movie
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
1966 · Movie
Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde
1965 · Movie
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965 · Movie
Tokyo Olympiad
1965 · Movie
Marriage Italian Style
1964 · Movie
Sophia Loren in Rome
1964 · Movie
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
1963 · Movie
The Boom
1963 · Movie
The Condemned of Altona
1962 · Movie
Eva
1962 · Movie
Lykke og krone
1962 · Movie
Boccaccio '70
1962 · Movie
Lafayette
1962 · Movie
The Two Marshals
1961 · Movie
The Orderly
1961 · Movie
The Wonders of Aladdin
1961 · Movie
The Last Judgment
1961 · Movie
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
1961 · Movie
The Honored Society
1961 · Movie
Two Women
1960 · Movie
Love in Rome
1960 · Movie
The Traffic Policeman
1960 · Movie
The Millionairess
1960 · Movie
Le pillole di Ercole
1960 · Movie
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
1960 · Movie
It Started in Naples
1960 · Movie
Austerlitz
1960 · Movie
The Angel Wore Red
1960 · Movie
Gastone
1960 · Movie
Ferdinand I King of Naples
1959 · Movie
General Della Rovere
1959 · Movie
The Four Just Men
1959 · Series
The Moralist
1959 · Movie
Il mondo dei miracoli
1959 · Movie
Winter Holidays
1959 · Movie
Men and Noblemen
1959 · Movie
My Wife's Enemy
1959 · Movie
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
1959 · Movie
Nel blu dipinto di blu
1959 · Movie
Venetian Honeymoon
1959 · Movie
Bread, Love and Andalucia
1958 · Movie
The Girl of San Pietro Square
1958 · Movie
The Inveterate Bachelor
1958 · Movie
Angel in a Taxi
1958 · Movie
Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
1958 · Movie
Cannon Serenade
1958 · Movie
Fast and Sexy
1958 · Movie
Domenica è sempre domenica
1958 · Movie
Love and Chatter
1958 · Movie
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
1957 · Movie
Holiday Island
1957 · Movie
A Farewell to Arms
1957 · Movie
Doctor and the Healer
1957 · Movie
The Woman Who Came from the Sea
1957 · Movie
Paris Casino
1957 · Movie
Il conte Max
1957 · Movie
It Happened in Rome
1957 · Movie
The Guilty
1957 · Movie
Fathers and Sons
1957 · Movie
Noi siamo le colonne
1956 · Movie
The Monte Carlo Story
1956 · Movie
The Roof
1956 · Movie
Time of Vacation
1956 · Movie
Nero's Mistress
1956 · Movie
I giorni più belli
1956 · Movie
The Bigamist
1956 · Movie
Cinépanorama
1956 · Series
Scandal in Sorrento
1955 · Movie
Roman Tales
1955 · Movie
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
1955 · Movie
It Happens in Roma
1955 · Movie
The Sign of Venus
1955 · Movie
Too Bad She's Bad
1954 · Movie
Frisky
1954 · Movie
The Cheerful Squadron
1954 · Movie
The Gold of Naples
1954 · Movie
Modern Virgin
1954 · Movie
The Secrets of the Bed
1954 · Movie
The Anatomy of Love
1954 · Movie
Gran varietà
1954 · Movie
100 Years of Love
1954 · Movie
Il matrimonio
1954 · Movie
Bread, Love and Dreams
1953 · Movie
It Happened in the Park
1953 · Movie
The Earrings of Madame de...
1953 · Movie
Indiscretion of an American Wife
1953 · Movie
Times Gone By
1952 · Movie
Hello Elephant
1952 · Movie
Umberto D.
1952 · Movie
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
Position Wanted
1951 · Movie
Mamma mia, che impressione!
1951 · Movie
Miracle in Milan
1951 · Movie
Tomorrow Is Too Late
1950 · Movie
Bicycle Thieves
1948 · Movie
Heart
1948 · Movie
Unknown Men of San Marino
1948 · Movie
Christmas at Camp 119
1947 · Movie
Lost in the Dark
1947 · Movie
Peddlin' in Society
1946 · Movie
Rome: Free City
1946 · Movie
Shoeshine
1946 · Movie
Il mondo vuole così
1946 · Movie
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
1945 · Movie
The Gates of Heaven
1945 · Movie
No One Comes Back
1945 · Movie
The Children Are Watching Us
1943 · Movie
Our Dreams
1943 · Movie
La guardia del corpo
1942 · Movie
A Garibaldian in the Convent
1942 · Movie
If I Was Honest
1942 · Movie
Teresa Venerdì
1941 · Movie
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
1941 · Movie
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
1940 · Movie
Red Roses
1940 · Movie
Pazza di gioia
1940 · Movie
Manon Lescaut
1940 · Movie
The Sinner
1940 · Movie
It Always Ends That Way
1939 · Movie
Department Store
1939 · Movie
Castles in the Air
1939 · Movie
Ai vostri ordini, signora...
1939 · Movie
Napoli che non muore
1939 · Movie
Le due madri
1938 · Movie
Hanno rapito un uomo
1938 · Movie
Partire
1938 · Movie
The Cuckoo Clock
1938 · Movie
La mazurka di papà
1938 · Movie
Napoli d'altri tempi
1938 · Movie
Mister Max
1937 · Movie
The Man Who Smiles
1937 · Movie
Questi ragazzi
1937 · Movie
But It's Nothing Serious
1936 · Movie
I Don't Know You Anymore
1936 · Movie
Lohengrin
1936 · Movie
I Love You Only
1935 · Movie
I'll Give a Million
1935 · Movie
Full Speed
1934 · Movie
La canzone del sole
1934 · Movie
Das Lied der Sonne
1933 · Movie
Lisetta
1933 · Movie
Un cattivo soggetto
1933 · Movie
The Secretary for Everyone
1932 · Movie
What Scoundrels Men Are!
1932 · Movie
Two Happy Hearts
1932 · Movie
The Old Lady
1932 · Movie
La compagnia dei matti
1928 · Movie
La bellezza del mondo
1927 · Movie
The Clemenceau Affair
1917 · Movie