FILM DIRECTOR

Federico Fellini

1920 - 1993

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Federico Fellini (Italian: [fedeˈriːko felˈliːni]; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. His films have ranked highly in critical polls such as that of Cahiers du Cinéma and Sight & Sound, which lists his 1963 film 8+1⁄2 as the 10th-greatest film. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Federico Fellini is the 6th most popular film director, the 115th most popular biography from Italy (down from 66th in 2019) and the most popular Italian Film Director.

Federico Fellini is most famous for his films, such as La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, and Amarcord.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Federico Fellini ranks 6 out of 2,041Before him are Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Hayao Miyazaki, Akira Kurosawa, and David Lynch. After him are Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Sergei Eisenstein, Roman Polanski, and D. W. Griffith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Federico Fellini ranks 2Before him is Pope John Paul II. After him are Isaac Asimov, Yul Brynner, Charles Bukowski, Rosalind Franklin, Toshiro Mifune, Farouk of Egypt, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Ray Bradbury, George Shultz, and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. Among people deceased in 1993, Federico Fellini ranks 3Before him are Pablo Escobar, and Audrey Hepburn. After him are Ferruccio Lamborghini, Rudolf Nureyev, James Hunt, Baudouin of Belgium, William Golding, Erich Hartmann, Frank Zappa, Turgut Özal, and Zviad Gamsakhurdia.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Federico Fellini ranks 115 out of 5,161Before him are Pope Sylvester I (300), Pope Innocent X (1574), Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (1820), Pope Gregory XV (1554), Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194), and Sonia Gandhi (1946). After him are Pope Pius IV (1499), Pope Gregory XII (1335), Vitruvius (-75), Girolamo Savonarola (1452), Pope Paul V (1552), and Pope Clement VIII (1536).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Federico Fellini ranks 1After him are Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922), Bernardo Bertolucci (1941), Luchino Visconti (1906), Sergio Leone (1929), Michelangelo Antonioni (1912), Vittorio De Sica (1901), Tinto Brass (1933), Roberto Rossellini (1906), Frank Capra (1897), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), and Dario Argento (1940).