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24 March 2020

Federico Fellini Birth Centenary

Federico Fellini
Issued on: 2020-03-24
Size: 30 x 40 mm
Perforation: 13¼ x 13
Printing: Offset lithography
Face value: 1.10 €
Print run: 30,000

Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. His films have ranked in polls such as Cahiers du cinéma and Sight & Sound, which lists his 1963 film 8½ as the 10th-greatest film.

Fellini won the Palme d’Or for La Dolce Vita, was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, and won four in the category of Best Foreign Language Film, the most for any director in the history of the Academy. He received an honorary award for Lifetime Achievement at the 65th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.[4] His other well-known films include La Strada (1954), Nights of Cabiria (1957), Juliet of the Spirits (1967), Satyricon (1969), Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973), and Fellini’s Casanova (1976).