--- name: "Luchino Visconti" canonical: "https://film.one/person/luchino-visconti" fi1m_id: "luchino-visconti" imdb_id: "nm0899581" tmdb_id: 15127 wikidata_id: "Q13888" roles: ["Director"] born: "2 November 1906" died: "17 March 1976" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-25T03:32:44.052882+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Luchino Visconti ## Identity Luchino Visconti - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/luchino-visconti - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** luchino-visconti - **IMDb ID:** nm0899581 - **TMDB ID:** 15127 - **Wikidata ID:** Q13888 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luchino_Visconti, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13888, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0899581/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15127 Director. Born 2 November 1906 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Died 17 March 1976. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Born:** 2 November 1906, Milan, Lombardy, Italy - **Died:** 17 March 1976 - **Also known as:** Luchino Visconti di Modrone, 루키노 비스콘티 - **Cannes Film Festival:** 1 Cannes prize (1 won) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luchino_Visconti, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13888, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0899581/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15127 ## Biography Luchino Visconti di Modrone was an Italian film, theatre and opera director and screenwriter. Born in Milan in 1906, he began his career as an assistant director to Jean Renoir in France before making his feature debut with *Ossessione* (1943), which he also wrote. His subsequent films include *La terra trema* (1948), *Bellissima* (1951), *Senso* (1954), *Rocco and His Brothers* (1960), *The Leopard* (1963), *The Damned* (1969), *Death in Venice* (1971) and *Ludwig* (1973). Visconti died in Rome in 1976. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Obsession* (1943), Fi1m 75, Dialogue, Director, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/obsession-1943.md) ## Complete filmography (31) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables* (2021), Actor - *National Theatre Live: Obsession* (2017), Original Film Writer - *Les Damnés* (2016), Original Story - *Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità* (2008), as (archive footage) - *Don Carlo* (1985), Production Design - *Ludwig* (1981), series, Director - *The Innocent* (1976), Screenplay, Director - *Conversation Piece* (1974), Director, Screenplay - *Ludwig* (1973), Screenplay, Director, Story - *Death in Venice* (1971), Director, Screenplay, Producer - *Searching for Tadzio* (1970), Director - *The Damned* (1969), Director, Screenplay, Story - *The Stranger* (1967), Director, Screenplay - *The Witches* (1967), Director - *Sandra* (1965), Director, Story, Screenplay - *Tokyo Olympiad* (1965), Thanks - *The Leopard* (1963), Screenplay, Director - *Boccaccio '70* (1962), Director, Screenplay - *Rocco and His Brothers* (1960), Director, Screenplay, Story, Dialogue - *White Nights* (1957), Director, Screenplay, Story - *Senso* (1954), Story, Director, Screenplay - *Anna Magnani* (1953), Director - *We, the Women* (1953), Director, Screenplay - *Bellissima* (1952), Director, Screenplay - *Notes on a True Story* (1951), Director - *La Terra Trema* (1949), as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) · Director, Music Coordinator, Screenplay, Producer, Story - *A Day in the Country* (1946), Assistant Director - *Days of Glory* (1945), Director, Assistant Director - *Obsession* (1943), Director, Screenplay, Dialogue — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/obsession-1943.md) - *Tosca* (1941), Assistant Director - *Internationaal Theatre Amsterdam : The Damned*, Original Film Writer ## Gallery - ![Italian director Luchino Visconti in 1972.](https://film.one/media/person/3857006/gallery-8da7233bf0e5.jpg) Italian director Luchino Visconti in 1972. — Marisa Rastellini (Mondadori Publisher), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Luchino_Visconti_1972.jpg/1280px-Luchino_Visconti_1972.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Luchino Visconti](https://film.one/media/person/3857006/gallery-d00c8ab44f0f.jpg) Luchino Visconti — Marisa Rastellini (Mondadori Publisher), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Luchino_Visconti_1972b.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Giancarlo Giannini and Luchino Visconti (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/3857006/gallery-50ecdea33952.jpg) Giancarlo Giannini and Luchino Visconti (2017) — Luchino Visconti, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Giannini-visconti_opt.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Photo sur le tournage de "Mort à Venise" (1970) Luchino Visconti et Björn Andrésen (Tadzio).](https://film.one/media/person/3857006/gallery-7de5a520501e.jpg) Photo sur le tournage de "Mort à Venise" (1970) Luchino Visconti et Björn Andrésen (Tadzio). — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Mort_%C3%A0_Venise_photo_plateau.jpg/1280px-Mort_%C3%A0_Venise_photo_plateau.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Van Heflin, on the right, congratulates Giulietta Masina and Luchino Visconti, winners of the Best Actress and Best Director awards at the 1958 Grolle d'Oro in ](https://film.one/media/person/3857006/gallery-ca2d77958b04.jpg) Van Heflin, on the right, congratulates Giulietta Masina and Luchino Visconti, winners of the Best Actress and Best Director awards at the 1958 Grolle d'Oro in — Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Photo_Van_Heflin%2C_on_the_right%2C_congratulates_Giulietta_Masina_and_Luchino_Visconti%2C_winners_of_the_Best_Actress_and_Best_Director_awards_at_the_1958_Grolle_d%27Oro_in_Saint_Vincent_1958_-_Touring_Club_Italiano_04_0714.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Granger+Vallli+Visconti_set "Senso" 1953 (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/3857006/gallery-edf3aa86f8bd.jpg) Granger+Vallli*+Visconti_set "Senso" 1953 (2014) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Senso_set_3.jpg/1280px-Senso_set_3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - 1970: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *The Damned* ### Cannes Film Festival — 1 won - 1963: Palme d'Or (won) ### Venice Film Festival — 1 won - 1965: Golden Lion (won) ### Other awards — 2 won - Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival 1960: Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival (won) - Silver Lion 1957: Silver Lion (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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