--- name: "Vittorio De Sica" canonical: "https://film.one/person/vittorio-de-sica" fi1m_id: "vittorio-de-sica" imdb_id: "nm0001120" tmdb_id: 12329 wikidata_id: "Q53004" roles: ["Director","Producer"] born: "7 July 1901" died: "13 November 1974" reviewed_on_fi1m: 5 average_fi1m_score: 87 average_as: "director" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-26T17:10:13.398961+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." --- # Vittorio De Sica ## Identity Vittorio De Sica - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/vittorio-de-sica - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** vittorio-de-sica - **IMDb ID:** nm0001120 - **TMDB ID:** 12329 - **Wikidata ID:** Q53004 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorio_De_Sica, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53004, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001120/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12329 Director and producer. Born 7 July 1901 in Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy. Died 13 November 1974. ## Details - **Work:** Director, Producer - **Born:** 7 July 1901, Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy - **Died:** 13 November 1974 - **Active:** 1948–1970 - **Also known as:** Витторио Де Сика, 비토리오 데 시카, ویتوریو دسیکا - **Titles on Fi1m:** 5: 1 acting, 3 directing, 1 other - **Frequently works with:** [Cesare Zavattini](https://film.one/person/cesare-zavattini.md), [Giuseppe Amato](https://film.one/person/giuseppe-amato.md) - **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 1 nominated) - **Average Fi1m score:** 87, as director, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 93 (1), 1950s 89 (2), 1960s 88 (1), 1970s 78 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 87 to 81 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Genres:** Drama 3, History 1 - **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $1m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorio_De_Sica, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53004, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001120/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12329 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*Bicycle Thieves*](https://film.one/film/bicycle-thieves.md) (93), [*Umberto D.*](https://film.one/film/umberto-d.md) (91), [*The Earrings of Madame de...*](https://film.one/film/the-earrings-of-madame-de.md) (87) - **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. ## Fi1m on Vittorio De Sica > Vittorio De Sica’s patient attention to people with little to spare gives his neorealist films their force. We recommend *Bicycle Thieves* above all, for performances that make its account of poverty hard to shake. In *Bicycle Thieves* (1948), Antonio searches post-war Rome with his son Bruno for a stolen bicycle. Vittorio De Sica lets the search be interrupted by other people, by bureaucracy and by the time it takes to ask for help. We found it deeply upsetting because Antonio’s desperation makes clear how little he can afford to lose. De Sica gives a workman’s practical problem enough attention to make it matter to us, without inventing a larger crime to justify the film. His directing began with comedies in 1940, before his collaboration with screenwriter Cesare Zavattini helped turn him towards neorealism. Their attention settled on small stories of poverty and dignity in post-war Italy. The sequence from *Shoeshine* (1946) through *Miracle in Milan* (1951) to *Umberto D.* (1952) includes street children, the dispossessed and an isolated elderly man. The fantasy of *Miracle in Milan* also makes clear that recording everyday life was not the only way he could approach such people. The practical skill is clearest in *Bicycle Thieves*. Editor Eraldo Da Roma keeps the search easy to follow while allowing its encounters to delay it, so we register the wasted time without losing patience with the film. The non-professional cast and location work give Antonio and Bruno a convincing everyday presence, and De Sica allows humour into their difficulties without making light of them. There is room for ordinary foolishness alongside the desperation. The music is the weakness: it presses for an emotion that the performances have already made difficult to resist. After *Umberto D.*, De Sica returned to lighter, more commercial work. His later films include *Two Women* (1960), *Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow* (1963) and *The Garden of the Finzi-Continis* (1970). That change matters when choosing what to watch: his name does not always promise another account of post-war hardship made with non-professional actors. Start with *Bicycle Thieves*, preferably with someone who will not want to change the subject straight afterwards. ## Biography Vittorio De Sica (7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor. Born in Sora, Lazio, he grew up in Naples and began his career as a stage actor in 1923, later becoming a leading man in Italian cinema during the 1930s. He made his directorial debut in 1940 with comedies and turned to more serious subjects with The Children Are Watching Us (1943). De Sica is best known for his postwar neorealist films made in collaboration with screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, including Shoeshine (1946), Bicycle Thieves (1948), Miracle in Milan (1951) and Umberto D. (1952). He also directed Two Women (1960), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), Marriage Italian Style (1964) and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970). Four of his films received Academy Awards: honorary awards for Shoeshine and Bicycle Thieves, and Best Foreign Language Film for Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. He continued to act throughout his career and received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for A Farewell to Arms (1957). *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (5) ### Performed in (1) - *The Earrings of Madame de...* (1953), Fi1m 87, as Baron Fabrizio Donati — [page](https://film.one/film/the-earrings-of-madame-de.md) ### Directed (3) — the average rests on these - *The Garden of the Finzi-Continis* (1970), Fi1m 78, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis.md) - *Umberto D.* (1952), Fi1m 91, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/umberto-d.md) - *Bicycle Thieves* (1948), Fi1m 93, Producer, Director, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/bicycle-thieves.md) ### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited - *Tokyo Olympiad* (1965), Fi1m 88, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/tokyo-olympiad.md) ## Complete filmography (183) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Belmondo: The Incorrigible* (2022), Actor - *The Sons of His Mistress* (2007), Author - *How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio* (2004), as (archive footage) - *Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca* (1975), as (archive footage) - *We All Loved Each Other So Much* (1974), Presenter - *Blood for Dracula* (1974), as Marquis Di Fiore - *The Voyage* (1974), Director - *Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene* (1973), Actor - *The Assassination of Matteotti* (1973), as Mauro Del Giudice - *A Brief Vacation* (1973), Director - *Storia de fratelli e de cortelli* (1973), as Maresciallo Cenciarelli - *The Small Miracle* (1973), as Father Damico - *The Adventures of Pinocchio* (1972), as giudice - *We'll Call Him Andrea* (1972), Director - *The Adventures of Pinocchio* (1972), series, as Giudice - *Scandal Man* (1972), as Milord - *Snow Job* (1972), as Enrico Dolphi - *Hector the Mighty* (1972), as Giove - *We Are All in Temporary Liberty* (1971), as Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella' - *Trastevere* (1971), as Enrico Formichi - *Birth of the Republic* (1971), series, Director, Writer - *I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear* (1971), as Player in Venice casino - *Mafia Things* (1971), as Don Michele - *The Couples* (1970), Director, Writer - *The Garden of the Finzi-Continis* (1970), Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis.md) - *Io e Dio* (1970), Producer - *Sunflower* (1970), Director - *Twelve Plus One* (1969), as Di Seta - *If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium* (1969), as Shoemaker - *A Place for Lovers* (1968), Director - *The Shoes of the Fisherman* (1968), as Cardinal Rinaldi - *Dear Caroline* (1968), as Le comte de Bièvre - *The Biggest Bundle of Them All* (1968), as Cesare Celli - *An Italian in America* (1967), as Lando Marossi - *Woman Times Seven* (1967), Director - *The Witches* (1967), Director - *Gli altri, gli altri e noi* (1966), as Retired - *After the Fox* (1966), as Vittorio De Sica (uncredited) · Director - *A Young World* (1966), Director - *Me, Me, Me... and the Others* (1966), as Commendator Trepossi - *The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders* (1965), as der Graf - *Tokyo Olympiad* (1965), Thanks — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/tokyo-olympiad.md) - *Marriage Italian Style* (1964), Director - *Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow* (1963), Director - *The Boom* (1963), Director - *The Condemned of Altona* (1962), Director - *Eva* (1962), as (uncredited) - *Lykke og krone* (1962), Actor - *Boccaccio '70* (1962), Director - *Lafayette* (1962), as Bancroft - *The Two Marshals* (1961), as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone - *The Orderly* (1961), as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi - *The Wonders of Aladdin* (1961), as Genie - *The Last Judgment* (1961), as Defense lawyer · Director - *Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!* (1961), as Ambassador of Spain - *The Honored Society* (1961), as Salvatore il 'Capintesta' - *Two Women* (1960), Director - *Love in Rome* (1960), as le réalisateur - *The Traffic Policeman* (1960), as Il sindaco - *The Millionairess* (1960), as Joe - *Le pillole di Ercole* (1960), as Colonel Piero Cuocolo - *Three Etc.'s and the Colonel* (1960), as Colonel Belalcazar - *It Started in Naples* (1960), as Mario Vitale - *Austerlitz* (1960), as le pape Pie VII - *The Angel Wore Red* (1960), as General Clave - *Gastone* (1960), as The Prince - *Ferdinand I King of Naples* (1959), as Seccano - *General Della Rovere* (1959), as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi' - *The Four Just Men* (1959), series, as Ricco Poccari - *The Moralist* (1959), as O.I.M.P. President - *Il mondo dei miracoli* (1959), as Director Pietro Giordani - *Winter Holidays* (1959), as Maurizio - *Men and Noblemen* (1959), as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola - *My Wife's Enemy* (1959), as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni - *Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura* (1959), as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited) - *Nel blu dipinto di blu* (1959), as Spartaco - *Venetian Honeymoon* (1959), as Alfredo - *Bread, Love and Andalucia* (1958), as Tonino · Producer, Original Music Composer - *The Girl of San Pietro Square* (1958), as Armando Conforti - *The Inveterate Bachelor* (1958), as Il professore - *Angel in a Taxi* (1958), Actor - *Cannon Serenade* (1958), as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän - *Fast and Sexy* (1958), as Don Luigi · Supervising Technical Director, Original Music Composer, Co-Director - *Domenica è sempre domenica* (1958), as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi - *Love and Chatter* (1958), as Avvocato Bonelli - *Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor* (1957), as Marchese Vittorio De Vittti - *Holiday Island* (1957), as Engineer Occhipinti - *A Farewell to Arms* (1957), as Major Rinaldi - *Doctor and the Healer* (1957), as Antonio Locoratolo - *The Woman Who Came from the Sea* (1957), as Console Bordogin - *Paris Casino* (1957), as Alexander Gordy - *Il conte Max* (1957), as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo - *It Happened in Rome* (1957), as The Count - *The Guilty* (1957), as Giorgio Vasari - *Fathers and Sons* (1957), as Vincenzo Corallo - *Noi siamo le colonne* (1956), as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato - *The Monte Carlo Story* (1956), as Count Dino della Fiaba - *The Roof* (1956), Director, Producer - *Time of Vacation* (1956), as Aristide Rossi - *Nero's Mistress* (1956), as Seneca - *I giorni più belli* (1956), Actor - *The Bigamist* (1956), as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince - *Scandal in Sorrento* (1955), as Maresciallo Carotenuto - *Roman Tales* (1955), as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer - *The Miller's Beautiful Wife* (1955), as Don Teofilo - governatore - *It Happens in Roma* (1955), as Carlo Reani - *The Sign of Venus* (1955), as Alessio Spano - *Too Bad She's Bad* (1954), as Vittorio Stroppiani - *Frisky* (1954), as Maresciallo Carotenuto - *The Cheerful Squadron* (1954), as General - *The Gold of Naples* (1954), as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori") · Director, Screenplay - *Modern Virgin* (1954), as Antonio Valli - *The Secrets of the Bed* (1954), as Roberto Bernardini (segment "Divorce, Le") - *The Anatomy of Love* (1954), as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio - *Gran varietà* (1954), as Veneziani - *Il matrimonio* (1954), as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov - *100 Years of Love* (1954), as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin") - *Bread, Love and Dreams* (1953), as Maresciallo Carotenuto - *It Happened in the Park* (1953), as Arturo Cavazzuti (segment "Incidente a Villa Borghese") - *The Earrings of Madame de...* (1953), as Baron Fabrizio Donati — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-earrings-of-madame-de.md) - *Indiscretion of an American Wife* (1953), Director, Producer - *Times Gone By* (1952), as Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine") - *Hello Elephant* (1952), as Carlo Caretti · Producer - *Umberto D.* (1952), Director, Producer — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/umberto-d.md) - *Hallmark Hall of Fame* (1951), series, Actor - *Position Wanted* (1951), as Leonardo Leonardi - *Mamma mia, che impressione!* (1951), Producer - *Miracle in Milan* (1951), Director, Screenplay, Producer - *Tomorrow Is Too Late* (1950), as Professor Landi - *Bicycle Thieves* (1948), Director, Producer, Screenplay — Fi1m 93, [page](https://film.one/film/bicycle-thieves.md) - *Heart* (1948), as Master Perboni · Director - *Unknown Men of San Marino* (1948), as Leo, l'ateo - *Christmas at Camp 119* (1947), as Don Vicenzino · Screenplay - *Lost in the Dark* (1947), as Carmine · Screenplay - *Peddlin' in Society* (1946), as Il conte Ghirani - *Rome: Free City* (1946), as Il signore distinto - *Shoeshine* (1946), Director - *Il mondo vuole così* (1946), as Paolo Morelli - *Lo sbaglio di essere vivo* (1945), as Adriano Lari - *The Gates of Heaven* (1945), Director, Screenplay - *No One Comes Back* (1945), as Maurizio - *The Children Are Watching Us* (1943), Director, Screenplay - *Our Dreams* (1943), as Leo · Screenplay - *La guardia del corpo* (1942), as Riccardo, investigatore privato · Writer - *A Garibaldian in the Convent* (1942), as Nino Bixio · Director, Screenplay - *If I Was Honest* (1942), as Pietro Kovach · Screenplay - *Teresa Venerdì* (1941), as Dott. Pietro Vignali · Director, Screenplay - *The Adventuress from the Floor Above* (1941), as Fabrizio Marchini - *Maddalena, Zero for Conduct* (1940), as Alfredo Hartman · Director - *Red Roses* (1940), as Alberto Verani · Director - *Pazza di gioia* (1940), as Conte Corrado Valli - *Manon Lescaut* (1940), as Renato Des Grieux - *The Sinner* (1940), as Pietro Bandelli - *It Always Ends That Way* (1939), as Alberto Milnar - *Department Store* (1939), as Bruno Zacchi - *Castles in the Air* (1939), as Riccardo Pietramola - *Ai vostri ordini, signora...* (1939), as Pietro Haguet - *Napoli che non muore* (1939), Actor - *Le due madri* (1938), as Salvatore - *Hanno rapito un uomo* (1938), as L'attore cinematografico - *The Cuckoo Clock* (1938), Actor - *La mazurka di papà* (1938), as Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro - *Napoli d'altri tempi* (1938), as Mario Esposito - *Mister Max* (1937), as Gianni / Max Varaldo - *The Man Who Smiles* (1937), as Pio Fardella - *Questi ragazzi* (1937), as Vincenzo - *But It's Nothing Serious* (1936), as Memmo Speranza - *I Don't Know You Anymore* (1936), as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli - *Lohengrin* (1936), as Alfredo - *I Love You Only* (1935), as Giovanni - *I'll Give a Million* (1935), as Gold - *Full Speed* (1934), as Il professore Giacomo Banti - *La canzone del sole* (1934), as Paladino, l'avvocato - *Das Lied der Sonne* (1933), as Dr. Giuseppe Paladino - *Lisetta* (1933), as Fritz Peters - *Un cattivo soggetto* (1933), as Willy - *The Secretary for Everyone* (1932), Actor - *What Scoundrels Men Are!* (1932), as Bruno - *Two Happy Hearts* (1932), as Mr. Brown - *The Old Lady* (1932), as Fine dicitore - *La compagnia dei matti* (1928), as Prof. Rosolillo - *La bellezza del mondo* (1927), Actor - *The Clemenceau Affair* (1917), as Pierre Clémenceau bambino ## Gallery - ![Vittorio De Sica](https://film.one/media/person/59957/gallery-f1b3c27d80e5.jpg) Vittorio De Sica — Harry Pot for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Vittorio_De_Sica_-_portrait.jpg/1280px-Vittorio_De_Sica_-_portrait.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Wardrobe trunk that belonged to Vittorio De Sica since the beginning of his acting career. Christian De Sica Collection. Cinema Modernissimo, Cineteca di Bologn (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/59957/gallery-2c5997222631.jpg) Wardrobe trunk that belonged to Vittorio De Sica since the beginning of his acting career. Christian De Sica Collection. Cinema Modernissimo, Cineteca di Bologn (2024) — SunOfErat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Cinema_Modernissimo_-_Vittorio_De_Sica%2C_baule.jpg/1280px-Cinema_Modernissimo_-_Vittorio_De_Sica%2C_baule.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Grey wool coat worn by Vittorio De Sica on the set of Hello Elephant (Gianni Franciolini, 1952). Archivio Giuditta Rissone-Emi De Sica Archive. Cinema Moderniss (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/59957/gallery-bce0b58fbef5.jpg) Grey wool coat worn by Vittorio De Sica on the set of Hello Elephant (Gianni Franciolini, 1952). Archivio Giuditta Rissone-Emi De Sica Archive. Cinema Moderniss (2024) — SunOfErat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Cinema_Modernissimo_-_Vittorio_De_Sica%2C_cappotto_01.jpg/1280px-Cinema_Modernissimo_-_Vittorio_De_Sica%2C_cappotto_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Vittorio De Sica premia Claudia Cardinale come migliore attrice nell'edizione del David di Donatello 1972](https://film.one/media/person/59957/gallery-f69eac7248e7.jpg) Vittorio De Sica premia Claudia Cardinale come migliore attrice nell'edizione del David di Donatello 1972 — Romano Gentile, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/David_di_Donatello_1972_De_Sica_Cardinale.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Vittorio De Sica](https://film.one/media/person/59957/gallery-1ebf12c1f5b7.jpg) Vittorio De Sica — Image via TMDB - ![Vittorio De Sica](https://film.one/media/person/59957/gallery-7db2d5a5cccf.jpg) Vittorio De Sica — Image via TMDB - ![Vittorio De Sica](https://film.one/media/person/59957/gallery-dff5ce165bab.jpg) Vittorio De Sica — Image via TMDB - ![Vittorio De Sica in una immagine della fine degli anni venti (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/59957/gallery-bdc8784deb20.jpg) Vittorio De Sica in una immagine della fine degli anni venti (2016) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/De_Sica_V_fine_anni_venti.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 1 won, 1 nominated - 1958: Best Supporting Actor (nominated), for *A Farewell to Arms* - 1948: Academy Awards (won) ### Golden Globes — 3 won - 1961: Best Non-English Language Film (won) - 1950: Golden Globe Awards (won) - 1949: Best Non-English Language Film (won) ### Cannes Film Festival — 1 won - 1952: Palme d'Or (won), for *Miracle in Milan* ### Berlin International Film Festival — 1 won - 1971: Golden Bear (won), for *The Garden of the Finzi-Continis* ### Other awards — 29 won - David di Donatello europeo 1976: David di Donatello europeo (won), for *A Brief Vacation* - David di Donatello europeo 1975: David di Donatello europeo (won), for *A Brief Vacation* - David di Donatello europeo 1974: David di Donatello europeo (won), for *A Brief Vacation* - Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards 1972 1971: Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards 1972 (won), for *The Garden of the Finzi-Continis* - David di Donatello for Best Director 1965: David di Donatello for Best Director (won), for *Marriage Italian-Style* - David di Donatello for Best Director 1963: David di Donatello for Best Director (won), for *The Condemned of Altona* - Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Foreign Film 1961: Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Foreign Film (won), for *Two Women* - San Francisco International Film Festival 1960: San Francisco International Film Festival (won), for *General Della Rovere* - Bodil Awards 1956: Bodil Awards (won), for *Umberto D.* - David di Donatello for Best Actor 1956: David di Donatello for Best Actor (won), for *Pane, amore e...* - Jussi Awards 1956: Jussi Awards (won), for *Umberto D.* - Bodil Awards 1955: Bodil Awards (won), for *Umberto D.* - Grolla d'oro for Best Direction 1955: Grolla d'oro for Best Direction (won), for *The Gold of Naples* - Jussi Awards 1955: Jussi Awards (won), for *Umberto D.* - Grolla d'oro for Best Leading Actor 1954: Grolla d'oro for Best Leading Actor (won), for *Bread, Love and Dreams* - Bodil Awards 1953: Bodil Awards (won), for *Umberto D.* - Jussi Awards 1953: Jussi Awards (won), for *Umberto D.* - Bodil Awards 1950: Bodil Awards (won), for *Bicycle Thieves* - Kinema Junpo 1950: Kinema Junpo (won), for *Bicycle Thieves* - Leopard for Best Direction 1950: Leopard for Best Direction (won), for *Bicycle Thieves* - National Board of Review Award for Best Director 1950: National Board of Review Award for Best Director (won), for *Bicycle Thieves* - Bodil Awards 1949: Bodil Awards (won), for *Bicycle Thieves* - Kinema Junpo 1949: Kinema Junpo (won), for *Bicycle Thieves* - Leopard for Best Direction 1949: Leopard for Best Direction (won), for *Bicycle Thieves* - Nastro d'Argento for best director 1949: Nastro d'Argento for best director (won), for *Bicycle Thieves* - Nastro d'Argento for Best Screenplay 1949: Nastro d'Argento for Best Screenplay (won), for *Bicycle Thieves* - National Board of Review Award for Best Director 1949: National Board of Review Award for Best Director (won), for *Bicycle Thieves* - Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor 1948: Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor (won), for *Heart* - Nastro d'Argento for the director of the best film 1946: Nastro d'Argento for the director of the best film (won), for *Shoeshine* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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