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name: "Vittorio Bonicelli"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/vittorio-bonicelli"
fi1m_id: "vittorio-bonicelli"
imdb_id: "nm0094558"
tmdb_id: 25795
wikidata_id: "Q21994193"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1919"
died: "26 July 1994"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T17:14:26.484659+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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# Vittorio Bonicelli

## Identity

Vittorio Bonicelli

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/vittorio-bonicelli
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** vittorio-bonicelli
- **IMDb ID:** nm0094558
- **TMDB ID:** 25795
- **Wikidata ID:** Q21994193
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21994193, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0094558/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25795

Writer. Born 1 January 1919 in San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore. Died 26 July 1994.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1919, San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore
- **Died:** 26 July 1994
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21994193, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0094558/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25795

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Garden of the Finzi-Continis*](https://film.one/film/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis.md) (78)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Vittorio Bonicelli (28 April 1919 – 26 July 1994) was an Italian screenwriter and film critic. Born in San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore, he spent his childhood in Cesena, qualified in law and then worked as a theatre and film critic in Milan, first for Avanti! and from 1950 for the weekly Tempo until 1960.

He moved to Rome to work as a screenwriter on several large-scale productions for Dino De Laurentiis. His credits include *Barbarella* (1968), *Waterloo* (1970) and the screenplay, written with Ugo Pirro, for Vittorio De Sica’s *The Garden of the Finzi-Continis* (1970), which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. He also contributed to television projects with directors including Franco Rossi and Roberto Rossellini, and served on the jury of the 1957 Venice Film Festival.

*Sources: it.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Garden of the Finzi-Continis* (1970), Fi1m 78, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

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

- *A rischio d'amore* (1994), series, Writer
- *Charlemagne, le prince à cheval* (1994), series, Story, Writer
- *Ci sarà un giorno (Il giovane Pertini)* (1993), Screenplay, Story
- *Cellini: A Violent Life* (1990), Writer
- *Il colore della vittoria* (1990), Screenplay
- *Un Bambino in Fuga - Tre Anni Dopo* (1990), series, Story
- *A Child Called Jesus* (1987), Writer
- *The Inquiry* (1986), Screenplay
- *Un delitto* (1984), Writer
- *The Wings of the Dove* (1981), series, as Other
- *Moses the Lawgiver* (1976), Screenplay
- *Pure as a Lily* (1976), Screenplay
- *Eneide* (1971), series, Screenplay
- *The Garden of the Finzi-Continis* (1970), Screenplay — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis.md)
- *Waterloo* (1970), Scenario Writer
- *Youth March* (1969), Screenplay
- *The Odyssey* (1969), Writer
- *Acts of the Apostles* (1969), series, Writer
- *Barbarella* (1968), Writer
- *The Bible: In the Beginning...* (1966), Writers' Assistant
- *Il paradiso dell'uomo* (1963), Screenplay

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1972: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *The Garden of the Finzi-Continis*

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

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