Michelangelo Antonioni
Italian film director and screenwriter (1912-2007) · Italy · Directors · Died at 94 · also Serbia
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Something wrong?He made films where almost nothing happens and everything feels wrong - beautiful, slow, saturated with dread you can't name. His "alienation trilogy" in the early '60s turned ennui into high art, and Blowup made a murder mystery out of whether anything had happened at all.
A life in dates
Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow UpFilm1994Academy Honorary AwardAward1993European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement AwardAward1985
Room 666Film1983
Return to Lisca Bianca IslandFilm, Director, Writer1981
The Mystery of OberwaldFilm, Director, Writer1978
Ciné regardsSeries1976David di Donatello Luchino ViscontiAward1972
Chung Kuo-CinaSeries, Director
Chung Kuo: ChinaFilm, 1972Director, Writer1970“My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...”In their wordsAugust 1970On Zabriskie Point (1970) in Esquire (August 1970)1969“When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.”In their words29 July 1969Interview in Rome (29 July 1969), published in Encountering Directors (1972) by Charles Thomas Samuels, p. 15-321968Nastro d'argento for best non-Italian filmAward1966National Society of Film Critics Award for Best DirectorAward1965
Antonioni: Documents and TestimonialsFilm1964Golden LionAward1962Jury PrizeAward
L'EclisseFilm, 1962Director, Writer1961David di Donatello for Best DirectorAward1960“I am not a theoretician of the cinema. If you ask me what directing is, the first answer that comes into my head is: I don't know.”In their words"Autobiographical interview" in Cahiers du Cinema (1960)“I find that it is very useful to look over the location and to feel out the atmosphere while waiting for the actors.”In their words"Autobiographical interview" in Cahiers du Cinema (1960)“A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination.”In their words"Autobiographical interview" in Cahiers du Cinema (1960)Jury PrizeAwardSutherland TrophyAward
L'AvventuraFilm, 1960Director, Writer1957Golden LeopardAward1956Grolla d'oro for Best DirectionAwardNastro d'Argento for the director of the best filmAward1955Silver LionAward
Le AmicheFilm, 1955Director, Writer1954
Reflets de CannesSeries1953
The OscarsSeries1950
Story of a Love AffairFilm, Director, Writer1948
N.U.Film, Director, Writer1942
A Pilot ReturnsFilm, Writer1912Born29 September 1912Also in Deutsch
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Michelangelo Antonioni portrait (cropped)
Alessandra caprara e silvana costa su dis. di michelangelo antonioni, le montagne incantate, 1997
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Dupont Theater Ad - 1 June 1962, NW, Washington, D.C
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Luciana notturni e daniele strada su dis. di michelangelo antonioni, le montagne incantate, 1997
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, The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears.
Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...
Filmography 40
JSJeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
CUClose Up
WHWandering Heart
EREros
MEMichelangelo Eye to Eye
HFHeart of the FestivalFUFame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up
BCBeyond the Clouds
DC12 Directors for 12 CitiesRORoom 666
FBFarewell to Enrico BerlinguerRIReturn to Lisca Bianca Island
IWIdentification of a WomanTOThe Mystery of Oberwald
TPThe PassengerCCChung Kuo: China
ZPZabriskie Point
BUBlow-Up
TFThe Three FacesATAntonioni: Documents and Testimonials
RDRed DesertLEL'Eclisse
LNLa NotteLAL'Avventura
IGIl GridoLALe Amiche
LCLove in the City
TCThe Lady Without Camelias
TVThe Vanquished
TSThe White SheikSAStory of a Love Affair
TMThe Villa of Monsters
TFThe Funicular of Mount Faloria
LLLies of LoveNUN.U.
SDSeven Reeds, One Dress
SUSuperstition
PVPeople of the Po Valley
THTragic HuntARA Pilot Returns134 credits on file
Television 4
CRCiné regardsCCChung Kuo-CinaRCReflets de CannesTOThe OscarsAwards
In their orbit
Spouse: Enrica AntonioniAbout this person
Michelangelo Antonioni was born in northern Italy in 1912 and spent decades as a screenwriter and editor before his breakout. Between 1960 and 1962 he released L'Avventura, La Notte, and L'Eclisse - three films that stripped narrative to a whisper and let modern landscapes do the talking, a trilogy that redefined what cinema could hold. Blowup followed in 1966, an English-language riddle about a London photographer and a photograph that may or may not show a crime; it earned him Oscar nominations for directing and writing. The Passenger came in 1975, another multilingual drift through identity and disappearance. He became the first director to win all four major European festival prizes - Palme d'Or, Golden Lion, Golden Bear, Golden Leopard - and in 1995 the Academy gave him an honorary Oscar for his visual style. He died in July 2007, the same day as Ingmar Bergman.
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