Editing Cinema of Italy (section)

==Italian Academy Award winners==
{{see also|List of Italian Academy Award winners and nominees}}
[[File:Federico Fellini NYWTS 2.jpg|thumb|[[Federico Fellini]] has won four [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film]], the most for any director in the history of the academy, and has had three other films submitted. He is considered one of the most influential and widely revered [[Filmmaking|filmmakers]] in the history of cinema.<ref name="libreriamo">{{cite web|url=https://libreriamo.it/intrattenimento/federico-fellini-i-10-film-regista/|title=Federico Fellini, i 10 migliori film per conoscere il grande regista|date=20 January 2022 |access-date=10 September 2022|language=it}}</ref>]]

Italy is the most awarded country at the [[Academy Awards]] for [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]], with 14 wins, 3 [[Academy Honorary Award|Special Awards]] and 31 [[List of Italian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|nominations]]. Winners with the year of the ceremony:

*''[[Shoeshine (film)|Shoeshine]]'' (1947), by [[Vittorio De Sica]] (Honorary Award)
*''[[Bicycle Thieves]]'' (1949), by Vittorio De Sica (Honorary Award)
*''[[The Walls of Malapaga]]'' (1950), by [[René Clément]] (Honorary Award)
*''[[La Strada]]'' (1956), by [[Federico Fellini]]
*''[[Nights of Cabiria]]'' (1957), by Federico Fellini
*''[[8½]]'' (1963), by	Federico Fellini
*''[[Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow]]'' (1964), by [[Vittorio De Sica]]
*''[[Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion]]'' (1970), by [[Elio Petri]]
*''[[The Garden of the Finzi-Continis]]'' (1971), by Vittorio De Sica
*''[[Amarcord]]'' (1973), by Federico Fellini
*''[[Cinema Paradiso]]'' (1989), by [[Giuseppe Tornatore]]
*''[[Mediterraneo]]'' (1992), by [[Gabriele Salvatores]]
*''[[Life Is Beautiful]]'' (1998), by [[Roberto Benigni]]
*''[[The Great Beauty]]'' (2013), by [[Paolo Sorrentino]]
[[File:La ciociara, screenshot.gif|thumb|left|[[Sophia Loren]] and [[Eleonora Brown]] in ''[[Two Women]]'' by [[Vittorio De Sica]] (1960)]]

In 1961, [[Sophia Loren]] won the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for her role as a woman who is raped during [[World War II]], along with her adolescent daughter, in [[Vittorio De Sica]]'s ''[[Two Women]]''. She was the first actress to win an Academy Award for a performance in any foreign language, and the second Italian leading lady Oscar-winner, after [[Anna Magnani]] for ''[[The Rose Tattoo]]''. In 1998, [[Roberto Benigni]] was the first Italian actor to win the [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] for ''[[Life Is Beautiful]]''.

Italian-born filmmaker [[Frank Capra]] won three times at the Academy Award for Best Director, for ''[[It Happened One Night]]'', ''[[Mr. Deeds Goes to Town]]'' and ''[[You Can't Take It with You (film)|You Can't Take It with You]]''. [[Bernardo Bertolucci]] won the award for ''[[The Last Emperor]]'', and also Best Adapted Screenplay for the same movie.

[[Ennio De Concini]], [[Alfredo Giannetti]] and [[Pietro Germi]] won the award for Best Original Screenplay for ''[[Divorce Italian Style]]''. The Academy Award for Best Film Editing was won by [[Gabriella Cristiani]] for ''The Last Emperor'' and by [[Pietro Scalia]] for ''[[JFK (film)|JFK]]'' and ''[[Black Hawk Down (film)|Black Hawk Down]]''.

[[File:Dino de laurentiis crop.jpg|thumb|[[Dino De Laurentiis]] produced more than 500 films, of which 38 were nominated for Oscars.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://m.imdb.com/list/ls505379683|title=Dino De Laurentiis|website=[[IMDb]]|access-date=21 January 2022}}</ref>]]
The award for Best Original Score was won by [[Nino Rota]] for ''[[The Godfather Part II]]'';	[[Giorgio Moroder]] for ''[[Midnight Express (film)|Midnight Express]]''; [[Nicola Piovani]] for ''Life is Beautiful''; [[Dario Marianelli]] for ''[[Atonement (2007 film)|Atonement]]''; and [[Ennio Morricone]] for ''[[The Hateful Eight]]''. Giorgio Moroder also won the award for Best Original Song for ''[[Flashdance]]'' and ''[[Top Gun]]''.

The Italian winners at the Academy Award for Best Production Design are [[Dario Simoni]] for ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]'' and ''[[Doctor Zhivago (film)|Doctor Zhivago]]''; [[Elio Altramura]] and [[Gianni Quaranta]] for ''[[A Room with a View (1985 film)|A Room with a View]]''; [[Bruno Cesari]], [[Osvaldo Desideri]] and [[Ferdinando Scarfiotti]] for ''The Last Emperor''; [[Luciana Arrighi]] for ''[[Howards End (film)|Howards End]]''; and [[Dante Ferretti]] and [[Francesca Lo Schiavo]] for ''[[The Aviator (2004 film)|The Aviator]]'', ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' and ''[[Hugo (film)|Hugo]]''.

The winners at the [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography]] are: [[Tony Gaudio]] for ''[[Anthony Adverse]]''; [[Pasqualino De Santis]]	for ''[[Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)|Romeo and Juliet]]''; [[Vittorio Storaro]] for ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'', ''[[Reds (film)|Reds]]'' and ''The Last Emperor''; and [[Mauro Fiore]] for ''[[Avatar (2009 film)|Avatar]]''.

The winners at the Academy Award for Best Costume Design are [[Piero Gherardi]] for ''[[La dolce vita]]'' and ''[[8½]]''; [[Vittorio Nino Novarese]] for ''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]'' and ''[[Cromwell (film)|Cromwell]]''; [[Danilo Donati]] for ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'', ''[[Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)|Romeo and Juliet]]'', and ''[[Fellini's Casanova]]''; [[Franca Squarciapino]] for ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (1990 film)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]''; [[Gabriella Pescucci]]	for ''[[The Age of Innocence (1993 film)|The Age of Innocence]]''; and [[Milena Canonero]] for ''[[Barry Lyndon]]'', ''[[Chariots of Fire]]'', ''[[Marie Antoinette (2006 film)|Marie Antoinette]]'' and ''[[The Grand Budapest Hotel]]''.

Special effects artist [[Carlo Rambaldi]] won three Oscars: one [[Special Achievement Academy Award]] for Best Visual Effects for ''[[King Kong (1976 film)|King Kong]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1977|title=49th Academy Awards (Monday, March 28, 1977)|access-date=13 January 2022}}</ref> and two [[Academy Award for Best Visual Effects|Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects]] for ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1980|title=52nd Academy Awards (Monday, April 14, 1980)|access-date=13 January 2022}}</ref> (1979) and ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1983|title=55th Academy Awards (Monday, April 11, 1983)|access-date=13 January 2022}}</ref> The [[Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling]] was won by [[Manlio Rocchetti]] for ''[[Driving Miss Daisy]]'', and [[Alessandro Bertolazzi]] and [[Giorgio Gregorini]] for ''[[Suicide Squad (2016 film)|Suicide Squad]]''.

Sophia Loren, Federico Fellini, [[Michelangelo Antonioni]], [[Dino De Laurentiis]], Ennio Morricone, and [[Piero Tosi]] also received the [[Academy Honorary Award]].