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Lina Wertmüller
Arcangela Felice Assunta "Lina" Wertmüller was an Italian film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her 1970s art house films Seven Beauties, The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, and Swept Away.
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entertainment · Italian director and screenwriter (1928–2021) · screenwriter · film director · lyricist · director · playwright · theatre designer · actor · writer · also Lina Wertmüller, Arcangela Felice Assunta Job Wertmüller von Elgg Espanñol von Brauchich, Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spanol Von Braueich, Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertm%04uller von Elgg Spanol von Braueich, Lina Wertmuller, Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller Von Elgg Spanol Braueich
Born 14 August 1928 · Died 9 December 2021 · Q53039
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In questo periodo sto scrivendo alcune storie interessanti e chissà che non possa tornare a girare un film da queste parti. Adoro la Sicilia. Non vi rendete conto di stare su uno scoglio di importanza strategica: cosa c'è di meglio delle invasioni per accrescere la civiltà?
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2021· 12 entries
CNN: Lina Wertmüller, the first woman to be nominated for a directing Oscar, dies
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Los Angeles Times: Lina Wertmüller, first female filmmaker nominated for a directing Oscar, dies at 93
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The Guardian: Lina Wertmüller obituary
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Sportskeeda: Who was Lina Wertmüller? First woman to be nominated for Best Director Oscar, dies age 93
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People: Lina Wertmüller, First Woman to Receive an Oscar Nomination for Best Director, Dead at 93
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AV Club: R.I.P. Lina Wertmüller, the first woman nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director
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NPR: Lina Wertmüller, first woman nominated for Oscar in directing, has died
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Died 2021-12-09.
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The Hollywood Reporter: Lina Wertmuller, Famed Italian Filmmaker, Dies at 93
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Yahoo: Examining Lina Wertmüller, the First Woman Best Director Nominee
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“In questo periodo sto scrivendo alcune storie interessanti e chissà che non possa tornare a girare un film da queste parti. Adoro la Sicilia. Non vi rendete conto di stare su uno scoglio di importanza strategica: cosa c'è di meglio delle invasioni per accrescere la civiltà?”
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2020· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (2020).
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Yahoo: Every Female Director Nominated for an Oscar, From Lina Wertmuller to Greta Gerwig (Photos)
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2017· 1 entry
The Film Stage: Lina Wertmüller on Not Feeling Nostalgic, Capturing the Grotesque, and Her Retrospective
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2015· 1 entry
Wertmüller was the subject of a biographical film directed by Valerio Ruiz, Behind the White Glasses, in which she reflects on her life's work
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Berliner Kunstpreis (1987).
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1985· 3 entries
Awarded Crystal Award (1985).
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Received the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry
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And Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival in 1986
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1975· 1 entry
The National Board of Review in the United States awarded Swept Away Top Foreign Film, and in 1976, Wertmüller became the first female director to be nominated for an Oscar, for Seven Beauties
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1972· 1 entry
With The Seduction of Mimi, and continuing until 1978 with Blood Feud, Wertmüller released seven films, many of which are considered masterpieces of Commedia all'italiana
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1951· 1 entry
Wertmüller produced avant-garde plays, traveling throughout Europe and working as a puppeteer, stage manager, set designer, publicist, and scriptwriter for radio and television
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1928· 2 entries
Born 1928-08-14.
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To Federico, a lawyer from Palazzo San Gervasio, Basilicata, belonging to a devoutly Catholic family of distant Swiss descent, and to Maria Santamaria-Maurizio from Rome
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