Italian cinema giant, Dino De Laurentiis, producer of more than 500 films spanning almost sixty years of cinema, passed away today in Los Angeles at age 91. De Laurentiis produced a number of Italy's best-known films including works by Federico Fellini and Roberto Rossellini. The Oscar-winner produced several famous films in the United States, including Serpico with Al Pacino in 1973, Hannibal with Ridley Scott in 2001, and Three Days of the Condor with Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway in 1975.
The son of pasta makers, De Laurentiis was born on August 8, 1919 in Torre Annunziata, Italy. He moved to the United States in the 1960s. His career in film begin at age 20 and he became a leading producer of Italy's post-war cinema. He was also a leading producer of the neo-realist genre including the classic Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice) by Giuseppe De Santis.
De Laurentiis won an Academy Award in 1956 for Federico Fellini's La Strada, and was nominated a record-breaking thirty-eight times. He received the highly coveted Irving G. Thalberg Award in 2001 for his contribution to film.
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