Ettore Scola

Ettore Scola 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.

Scola was born in Trevico, Avellino, Campania. He entered the film industry as a screenwriter in 1953, and directed his first film, Lets Talk About Women, in 1964. In 1974 Scola enjoyed international success with We All Loved Each Other So Much , a wide fresco of postWorld War II Italian life and politics, dedicated to fellow director Vittorio De Sica. The film won the Golden Prize at the 9th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1976 he won the Prix de la mise en scne at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival for Brutti, sporchi e cattivi.

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