
Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio De Sica (7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement. Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: Sciuscià and Bicycle Thieves (honorary), while Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and Il giardino dei Finzi Contini won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Indeed, the great critical success of Sciuscià (the first foreign film to be so recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) and Bicycle Thieves helped establish the permanent Best Foreign Film Award. These two films are considered part of the canon of classic cinema. Bicycle Thieves was cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the 15 most influential films in cinema history. De Sica was also nominated for the 1957 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor's 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, a movie that was panned by critics and proved a box office flop. De Sica's acting was considered the highlight of the film.
33 directing credits · 176 acting credits
Directing · 33

Bicycle Thieves
1948

Two Women
1960

Umberto D.
1952

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
1963

Marriage Italian Style
1964

Boccaccio '70
1962

Shoeshine
1946

Sunflower
1970

The Witches
1967

Woman Times Seven
1967

Miracle in Milan
1951

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970

After the Fox
1966

Indiscretion of an American Wife
1953

The Voyage
1974

The Gold of Naples
1954

A Place for Lovers
1968

A Brief Vacation
1973

The Children Are Watching Us
1943

A Young World
1966

Birth of the Republic
1971

The Condemned of Altona
1962

Teresa Venerdì
1941

The Last Judgment
1961

The Boom
1963

The Gates of Heaven
1945

The Roof
1956

Red Roses
1940

We'll Call Him Andrea
1972

A Garibaldian in the Convent
1942

The Couples
1970

Heart
1948

Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
1940
Acting · 176

Cinépanorama
1956
Samedi soir
1971

We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

The Four Just Men
1959
Quelli che il cinema
2025

The Adventures of Pinocchio
1972

Il mondo dei miracoli
1959

Position Wanted
1951

We Are Cinema
2021

The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968

General Della Rovere
1959

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965

A Farewell to Arms
1957

1960
2010

Eva
1962

Blood for Dracula
1974

Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
1973

Me, Me, Me... and the Others
1966

The Earrings of Madame de...
1953

The Adventures of Pinocchio
1972

Lionpower from MGM
1967

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
1969

It Happened in the Park
1953

After the Fox
1966

It Started in Naples
1960

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021

The Millionairess
1960

Scandal in Sorrento
1955

The Wonders of Aladdin
1961

Doctor and the Healer
1957

The Gold of Naples
1954

The Traffic Policeman
1960

Hector the Mighty
1972

Lafayette
1962

The Miller's Beautiful Wife
1955

Too Bad She's Bad
1954

Bread, Love and Dreams
1953

The Two Marshals
1961

The Monte Carlo Story
1956

Il conte Max
1957

The Battle of Austerlitz
1960

Holiday Island
1957

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005

Twelve Plus One
1969

It Happened in Rome
1957

Nero's Mistress
1956

100 Years of Love
1954

Vittorio D.
2009

Frisky
1954

Sophia Loren, a special destiny
2019

It Happens in Roma
1955

Gastone
1960

How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004

Times Gone By
1952

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
1957

Fast and Sexy
1958

Department Store
1939

The Angel Wore Red
1960

Trastevere
1971

Snow Job
1972

What Scoundrels Men Are!
1932

The Cheerful Squadron
1954

Love in Rome
1960

Fathers and Sons
1957

Ferdinand I King of Naples
1959

Roman Tales
1955

Teresa Venerdì
1941

Gli altri, gli altri e noi
1966

The Last Judgment
1961

Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
1975

The Assassination of Matteotti
1973

Nel blu dipinto di blu
1959

Love and Chatter
1958

The Biggest Bundle of Them All
1968

Il matrimonio
1954

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
1959

The Small Miracle
1973

The Bigamist
1956

The Inveterate Bachelor
1958

My Wife's Enemy
1959

Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
1961

Domenica è sempre domenica
1958

The Sign of Venus
1955

Bread, Love and Andalucia
1958

Hello Elephant
1952

Venetian Honeymoon
1959

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985

Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022

Dear Caroline
1968

The Secrets of the Bed
1954

The Moralist
1959

An Italian in America
1967

Angel in a Taxi
1958

Cannon Serenade
1958

The Woman Who Came from the Sea
1957

Paris Casino
1957

The Sinner
1940

Sophia Loren in Rome
1964

Time of Vacation
1956

Christmas at Camp 119
1947

Scandal Man
1972

Winter Holidays
1959

Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
1960

Hanno rapito un uomo
1938

Cinéma et Réalité
1967

Red Roses
1940

My Name Is Anna Magnani
1980

The Anatomy of Love
1954

The Garden That Doesn't Exist
2022

Manon Lescaut
1940

The Guilty
1957

The Girl of San Pietro Square
1958

If I Was Honest
1942

But It's Nothing Serious
1936

I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
1971

Lykke og krone
1962

The Honored Society
1961

A Garibaldian in the Convent
1942

Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde
1965

Peddlin' in Society
1946

Le pillole di Ercole
1960

We Are All in Temporary Liberty
1971

The Cuckoo Clock
1938

Tomorrow Is Too Late
1950

Rome: Free City
1946

Vittorio De Sica – La Vie in Scene
2026

I'll Give a Million
1935

Noi siamo le colonne
1956

Il mondo vuole così
1946

The Orderly
1961

Cesare Zavattini
2003

Heart
1948

Gran varietà
1954

Mister Max
1937

The Adventuress from the Floor Above
1941

Men and Noblemen
1959

Pazza di gioia
1940

Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene
1973

I Don't Know You Anymore
1936
Le due madri
1938

Ai vostri ordini, signora...
1939

Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
1958

Our Dreams
1943

Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
1945
La compagnia dei matti
1928

Full Speed
1934

Unknown Men of San Marino
1948

Two Happy Hearts
1932

Mafia Things
1971

Amo te sola
1935

Un cattivo soggetto
1933

Napoli d'altri tempi
1938

Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti
1966

Napoli che non muore
1939

The Clemenceau Affair
1917

Castles in the Air
1939

I giorni più belli
1956

Lost in the Dark
1947

Working with De Sica
2007

Das Lied der Sonne
1933

The Old Lady
1932

Modern Virgin
1954

Lohengrin
1936

The Man Who Smiles
1937

Lisetta
1933

Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
1940

No One Comes Back
1945

La guardia del corpo
1942
Questi ragazzi
1937

That's Life: Vittorio De Sica
2001

The Secretary for Everyone
1932
La bellezza del mondo
1927

La canzone del sole
1934

It Always Ends That Way
1939

La mazurka di papà
1938