---
name: "Pier Paolo Pasolini"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/pier-paolo-pasolini"
fi1m_id: "pier-paolo-pasolini"
imdb_id: "nm0001596"
tmdb_id: 5970
wikidata_id: "Q25120"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "5 March 1922"
died: "2 November 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 88
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T09:04:25.980868+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."
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# Pier Paolo Pasolini

## Identity

Pier Paolo Pasolini

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/pier-paolo-pasolini
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** pier-paolo-pasolini
- **IMDb ID:** nm0001596
- **TMDB ID:** 5970
- **Wikidata ID:** Q25120
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Paolo_Pasolini, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25120, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001596/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5970

Writer. Born 5 March 1922 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Died 2 November 1975.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 5 March 1922, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- **Died:** 2 November 1975
- **Active:** 1957–1960
- **Also known as:** Paul Pasolini, P.P. Pasolini
- **Frequently works with:** [Brunello Rondi](https://film.one/person/brunello-rondi.md), [Ennio Flaiano](https://film.one/person/ennio-flaiano.md), [Federico Fellini](https://film.one/person/federico-fellini.md), [Tullio Pinelli](https://film.one/person/tullio-pinelli.md)
- **Cannes Film Festival:** 4 Cannes prizes (4 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 88, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 88 (1), 1960s 88 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Paolo_Pasolini, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25120, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001596/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5970

## Biography

Pier Paolo Pasolini (5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, poet and writer. He was born in Bologna and is best known for his work in cinema from the early 1960s onwards.

Pasolini wrote the screenplay for *Nights of Cabiria* (1957) directed by Federico Fellini. His directorial credits include *Accattone* (1961), *Mamma Roma* (1962), *The Gospel According to St. Matthew* (1965), *Theorem* (1968) and *Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom* (1975). He frequently wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for his own films.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, doi.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *La Dolce Vita* (1960), Fi1m 88, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/la-dolce-vita.md)
- *Nights of Cabiria* (1957), Fi1m 88, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/nights-of-cabiria.md)

## Complete filmography (84)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Morceaux de Cannes* (2021), Actor
- *Vor mir der Süden* (2021), Actor
- *L’Ultima Partita di Pasolini* (2020), Actor
- *Pier Paolo Pasolini e i confini - Memorie a est del corsaro del novecento* (2015), Actor
- *Pasolini - Il corpo e la voce* (2015), Actor
- *Pasolini maestro corsaro* (2015), Actor
- *La Rabbia di Pasolini* (2008), Writer, Editor
- *La rabbia 1, la rabbia 2, la rabbia 3... l'Arabia* (2008), Actor
- *Pasolini prossimo nostro* (2006), as Se stesso
- *Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer* (2006), as Interviewee (archive)
- *Salò, l’ultimo film di Pier Paolo Pasolini* (2005), Actor
- *Via Pasolini* (2005), as Interviewee
- *Visioni della Medea (tracce di un film sognato)* (2004), Actor
- *Salò: Yesterday and Today* (2002), Actor
- *Arruso* (2000), as Sé stesso (Materiale d'archivio)
- *Fioretti de Pier Paolo Pasolini 1922/1975* (1997), as Lui-même
- *Qui je suis* (1996), Book
- *Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo* (1995), Actor
- *Nella mischia* (1995), Thanks
- *The Ashes of Pasolini* (1994), Actor
- *L'altro enigma* (1988), Author
- *Mulheres... Mulheres* (1981), Short Story
- *Calderon* (1981), Screenplay
- *Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus* (1976), as Lui-même
- *Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom* (1976), Writer, Director
- *Notes Towards an African Orestes* (1975), Writer, Editor, Director
- *Arabian Nights* (1974), Director, Writer
- *The Walls of Sana'a* (1974), as Narrator (voice) · Writer, Director
- *Bawdy Tales* (1973), Screenplay, Story
- *The Canterbury Tales* (1972), as Geoffrey Chaucer · Director, Screenplay, Music Supervisor
- *S.P.Q.R.* (1972), Actor
- *December 12th* (1972), Idea, Director
- *The Decameron* (1971), as Allievo di Giotto · Director, Writer
- *Ostia* (1970), Story, Screenplay, Supervising Technical Director
- *Notes for a Novel About Garbage* (1970), Director, Writer
- *Medea* (1969), Director, Writer
- *Pigsty* (1969), Director, Writer
- *Love and Anger* (1969), Director, Writer
- *The Sequence of the Paper Flower* (1969), Director, Screenplay
- *Orgy* (1968), Director, Writer
- *Theorem* (1968), Director, Screenplay
- *Notes for a Film in India* (1968), Director, Writer
- *Caprice Italian Style* (1968), Director, Writer
- *What Are the Clouds?* (1968), Director, Writer
- *Oedipus Rex* (1967), as High Priest (uncredited) · Director, Writer
- *Kill and Pray* (1967), as Father Juan
- *The Witches* (1967), Director, Screenplay, Story
- *The Earth As Seen from the Moon* (1967), Director, Writer
- *Pasolini Interviews: Ezra Pound* (1967), Director
- *Pasolini l'Enragé* (1966), Actor
- *The Hawks and the Sparrows* (1966), Director, Screenplay, Story
- *Notes from a Critofilm* (1966), Actor
- *Scouting in Palestine* (1965), Writer, Director
- *Love Meetings* (1965), Director
- *The Gospel According to St. Matthew* (1965), Director, Writer
- *La Rabbia* (1963), Writer, Director, Editor
- *La ricotta* (1963), Director, Writer
- *Ro.Go.Pa.G.* (1963), Director, Screenplay
- *Mamma Roma* (1962), Director, Screenplay, Story
- *La Commare Secca* (1962), Story
- *Violent Life* (1962), Novel
- *Accattone* (1961), Director, Screenplay, Story
- *Girl in the Window* (1961), Screenplay
- *The Marshes' Chant* (1961), Writer
- *Milano nera* (1961), Writer
- *The Hunchback* (1960), as Monco
- *Stendali (Still They Toll)* (1960), Writer
- *From a Roman Balcony* (1960), Screenplay
- *Il carro armato dell'8 settembre* (1960), Screenplay
- *Long Night in '43* (1960), Screenplay
- *Il bell'Antonio* (1960), Screenplay
- *La Dolce Vita* (1960), Screenplay — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/la-dolce-vita.md)
- *Death of a Friend* (1960), Story
- *Caschi d'oro* (1960), Writer
- *The Big Night* (1959), Novel, Screenplay
- *Il mago* (1959), Writer
- *Young Husbands* (1958), Screenplay
- *The City’s Unknown* (1958), Writer
- *Nights of Cabiria* (1957), Screenplay — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/nights-of-cabiria.md)
- *Grigio* (1957), Writer
- *Marisa* (1957), Story, Screenplay
- *Manon: Finestra 2* (1956), Writer
- *Flucht in die Dolomiten* (1955), Writer
- *Woman of the River* (1954), Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Italian writer and director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975)](https://film.one/media/person/3875419/gallery-b43cc0d3bea1.jpg) Italian writer and director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Pier_Paolo_Pasolini_1975.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Pier Paolo Pasolini](https://film.one/media/person/3875419/gallery-f968d112de3d.jpg) Pier Paolo Pasolini — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/PierPaoloPasolini.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Pier Paolo Pasolini nella borgata del Quarticciolo a Roma (1960)](https://film.one/media/person/3875419/gallery-39b2b09fbb30.jpg) Pier Paolo Pasolini nella borgata del Quarticciolo a Roma (1960) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Pasolini_1960.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Pasolini davanti alla tomba di Gramsci Fonte: Ansa Foto ca 1970](https://film.one/media/person/3875419/gallery-76011771ce1a.jpg) Pasolini davanti alla tomba di Gramsci Fonte: Ansa Foto ca 1970 — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Gramsci_Pasolini.jpg/1280px-Gramsci_Pasolini.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Pier Paolo Pasolini](https://film.one/media/person/3875419/gallery-7550b9b4b40b.jpg) Pier Paolo Pasolini — Image via TMDB
- ![Pier Paolo Pasolini](https://film.one/media/person/3875419/gallery-f8e574e414f9.jpg) Pier Paolo Pasolini — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Cannes Film Festival — 4 won

- 1987: Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix (won), for *Arabian Nights*
- 1981: Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix (won), for *Arabian Nights*
- 1976: Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix (won), for *Arabian Nights*
- 1975: Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix (won), for *Arabian Nights*

### Berlin International Film Festival — 2 won

- 1972: Golden Bear (won), for *The Canterbury Tales*
- 1971: Silver Bear (won)

### Other awards — 10 won

- Nastro d'Argento for Best Subject 1970: Nastro d'Argento for Best Subject (won), for *The Hawks and the Sparrows*
- Jussi Awards 1968: Jussi Awards (won), for *The Gospel According to St. Matthew*
- Kinema Junpo 1968: Kinema Junpo (won), for *Oedipus Rex*
- Nastro d'Argento for Best Subject 1967: Nastro d'Argento for Best Subject (won), for *The Hawks and the Sparrows*
- Nastro d'Argento for the director of the best film 1965: Nastro d'Argento for the director of the best film (won), for *The Gospel According to St. Matthew*
- Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival 1964: Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival (won)
- Nastro d'Argento for Best Subject 1960: Nastro d'Argento for Best Subject (won), for *Bad Girls Don't Cry*
- Crotone Prize 1959: Crotone Prize (won), for *A Violent Life*
- Best Screenplay Award 1958: Best Screenplay Award (won), for *Young Husbands*
- Viareggio Prize 1957: Viareggio Prize (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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