Michelangelo Antonioni

Biography

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 a…

Directed

1. Blow-Up (1966) — Director
2. L'Avventura (1960) — Director
3. La Notte (1961) — Director
4. L'Eclisse (1962) — Director
5. The Passenger (1975) — Director
6. Red Desert (1964) — Director
7. Zabriskie Point (1970) — Director
8. Il Grido (1957) — Director
9. Eros (2004) — Director
10. Beyond the Clouds (1995) — Director
11. Story of a Love Affair (1950) — Director
12. Le Amiche (1955) — Director
13. Identification of a Woman (1982) — Director
14. The Lady Without Camelias (1953) — Director
15. Love in the City (1953) — Director
16. People of the Po Valley (1947) — Director
17. The Vanquished (1953) — Director
18. N.U. (1948) — Director
19. Chung Kuo: China (1972) — Director
20. The Mystery of Oberwald (1981) — Director
21. Michelangelo Eye to Eye (2004) — Director
22. Lies of Love (1949) — Director
23. Seven Reeds, One Dress (1948) — Director
24. 12 Directors for 12 Cities (1989) — Director
25. The Three Faces (1965) — Director
26. Superstition (1948) — Director
27. The Villa of Monsters (1950) — Director
28. Return to Lisca Bianca Island (1983) — Director
29. The Funicular of Mount Faloria (1950) — Director
30. Noto, Almond Trees, Volcano, Stromboli, Carnival (1993) — Director
31. Kumbha Mela (1992) — Director
32. Chung Kuo-Cina (1972) — Director
33. Il provino (1965) — Director
34. Un po' di Giappone (1990) — Director
35. Roma (1989) — Director
36. Sicily (1997) — Director
37. Japan 1984 – 7 Betacam Tapes — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Oscars (1953) — Self
2. Room 666 (1985) — Self
3. Michelangelo Eye to Eye (2004) — Self
4. Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials (1965) — Self
5. Wandering Heart (2009) — Self
6. Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit (2018) — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
7. Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (1984) — Self
8. Cinéma et Réalité (1967) — Self
9. Close Up (2012) — Self (archive footage)
10. Back to Room 666 (2008) — Self (archive footage)
11. Words in Progress (2004)
12. Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up (2002) — Self (archive footage)
13. Reflets de Cannes (1954) — Self
14. Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit (2017) — Self (archive footage)
15. Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema (2001) — Self (archive footage)
16. To Make a Film Is to Be Alive (1995) — Self (uncredited)
17. Un po' di Giappone (1990) — Self (uncredited)
18. Antonioni, la dernière séquence (1985) — himself
19. A Thousand and One Monica (2006)
20. I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni — Self (archive footage)
21. Antonioni visto da Antonioni (1978) — Self
22. Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima (2007) — Self
23. Underground New York (1968) — Self
24. Dear Antonioni (1995) — Self
25. Antonioni su Antonioni (2008) — Himself
26. Ciné regards (1978) — Self