FILM DIRECTOR

Ettore Scola

1931 - 2016

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Ettore Scola (Italian: [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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ettore Scola is the 169th most popular film director (down from 150th in 2019), the 1,152nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,040th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Italian Film Director.

Ettore Scola is most famous for his films, "The Working Class Goes to Heaven" and "We All Loved Each Other So Much."

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ettore Scola ranks 169 out of 2,041. Before him are Jean Vigo, Claude Lanzmann, Jacques Rivette, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Kim Ki-duk, and Jan Švankmajer. After him are Tom Holland, Max Ophüls, István Szabó, Roland Emmerich, Sergio Corbucci, and Spike Lee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Ettore Scola ranks 64. Before him are Takashi Takabayashi, Jim Jones, Richard Rorty, Hiroto Muraoka, John Robert Schrieffer, and Faten Hamama. After him are Syukuro Manabe, Lucia Bosè, Arawa Kimura, Jean-Claude Carrière, Jacques Demy, and Ken Takakura. Among people deceased in 2016, Ettore Scola ranks 67. Before him are Michèle Morgan, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Marvin Minsky, Sonia Rykiel, René Angélil, and Jacques Rivette. After him are Věra Čáslavská, George Martin, Hilary Putnam, Michel Galabru, Iolanda Balaș, and Walter Kohn.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ettore Scola ranks 1,152 out of 5,161. Before him are Mina (1940), Salvador Luria (1912), Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850), Johann Maria Farina (1685), Renato Dulbecco (1914), and Mario Capecchi (1937). After him are Eleonora Gonzaga (1598), Antonio Caldara (1670), Francesco Landini (1325), Constantius Gallus (325), Sebastian Cabot (1484), and Luigi Russolo (1885).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Ettore Scola ranks 14. Before him are Tinto Brass (1933), Roberto Rossellini (1906), Frank Capra (1897), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), Dario Argento (1940), and Giuseppe Tornatore (1956). After him are Sergio Corbucci (1926), Dino Risi (1916), Lina Wertmüller (1928), Francesco Rosi (1922), Liliana Cavani (1933), and Marco Ferreri (1928).

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