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Carlo Ponti
OMRI
Ponti in 1951
Born
Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti
(1912-12-11)11 December 1912
Magenta, Lombardy, Kingdom of Italy
Died
10 January 2007(2007-01-10) (aged 94)
Geneva, Switzerland
Alma mater
University of Milan
Spouses
Giuliana Fiastri
(m. 1946; div. 1965)
Sophia Loren
(m. 1957; ann. 1962)
(m. 1966)
Children
4; including Carlo Jr. and Edoardo
Honours
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1st Class)
Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr.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,[1] 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 such as Agnès Varda and David Lean. 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 appointed as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.[2]
^Lyman,AP, Eric J.; Lyman, Eric J.; AP (2007-01-11). "Italian producer Carlo Ponti dies at 94". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
^"Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana". www.quirinale.it. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
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film despite not directing it. This misattribution led both producer CarloPonti and Margheriti to be put on trial for "continued and aggravated fraud...
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Antonioni, co-written by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra and produced by CarloPonti. It is Antonioni's first entirely English-language film and stars David...
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1960 to 1968. Britt was discovered as a teenager by Italian filmmakers CarloPonti and Mario Soldati in 1951. She was then an assistant to a Stockholm photographer...
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1967 book Death in Rome by Robert Katz. An Italian court gave producer CarloPonti and director Cosmatos a six-month suspended sentence for their film which...
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dismissed. Tonino Cervi was also interested, but failed to convince CarloPonti to produce the film. Thanks to the efforts of Mauro Bolognini, who had...
period drama film directed and co-written by Ettore Scola, produced by CarloPonti, and starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Set in Rome in 1938...
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Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1st Class)