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Carlo Ponti

Co-Producer, Executive Producer, Producer, Thanks

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Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit. Along with Dino De Laurentiis, he is credited with reinvigorating and popularizing Italian cinema post-World War II, producing some of the country's most acclaimed and financially-successful films of the 1950s and 1960s.

Ponti worked with many of the most important directors of Italian cinema of the era, including Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Vittorio De Sica, as well as many international directors. He helped launch the career of his wife, international film star Sophia Loren. He won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film for La Strada (1954) and was nominated for Best Picture for producing Doctor Zhivago (1965). In 1996, he was ascended as a Knight Grand Cross to the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Source: Wikidata , May 2022

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Born
11 Dec 1912
Died
10 Jan 2007 (aged 94)
Production Places
Italy

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ACMI Identifier

3778

Wikidata

Q299419

VIAF

117455224

LOC Auth

n85201909

WorldCat

lccn-n85201909

TMDB-Person

3778

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