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