Michelangelo Antonioni

Known for DirectingBorn 1912-09-29Died 2007-07-30Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Close Up

Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema

Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up

Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit

La Notte

Tokyo Olympiad

L'Eclisse

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit

L'Avventura

Il Grido

Chung Kuo: China

Blow-Up

To Make a Film Is to Be Alive

The Passenger

Red Desert

The Funicular of Mount Faloria

The White Sheik

Zabriskie Point

The Oscars

Room 666

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

Palermo Shooting

Le Amiche

The Devil's Envoys

Michelangelo Eye to Eye

Chung Kuo-Cina

Story of a Love Affair

Cinéma et Réalité

Beyond the Clouds

Love in the City

Tempest

Tragic Hunt

Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials

The Vanquished

The Lady Without Camelias

Kumbha Mela

People of the Po Valley

Superstition

N.U.

The Villa of Monsters

Eros

Identification of a Woman

Seven Reeds, One Dress

The Mystery of Oberwald

Back to Room 666

Words in Progress

12 Directors for 12 Cities

The Three Faces