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de Laurentiis Dino
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8 August 1919 - 10 November 2010
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Dino De Laurentiis was born on 8 August 1919. He graduated from the acting department of the Experimental Film Center in Rome and began his career with supporting roles. Later he organized the film company "Real Cine", then was one of the leaders of the studio "Lux film", then became the founder (together with director Carlo Ponti) of his own company, which had film studios in Rome. In 1956, the firm split, and De Laurentiis created a new film company - De Laurentiis cinematographika - one of the
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Dino De Laurentiis was born on 8 August 1919. He graduated from the acting department of the Experimental Film Center in Rome and began his career with supporting roles. Later he organized the film company "Real Cine", then was one of the leaders of the studio "Lux film", then became the founder (together with director Carlo Ponti) of his own company, which had film studios in Rome. In 1956, the firm split, and De Laurentiis created a new film company - De Laurentiis cinematographika - one of the largest in Italy. Dino De Laurentiis is perhaps the most influential independent producer in the film industry that history knows. His career spans over fifty years and six hundred films. He rightfully ranks among the greatest legends of Hollywood - Louis B. Meyer, Cecil B. DeMille, Samuel Goldwyn and Irwin Thalberg. De Laurentiis produced his first film, L'Amore Canta, when he was 20. The film was a commercial success, and after World War II, Dino became one of a new wave of Italian filmmakers who ventured into a "new realism." The film Riso Amaro, a story of itinerant workers from rice plantations, was more than well received by critics around the world. The Bible, a film directed by John Huston with an absolute cast (there was not one actor not star level), made the name of the De Laurentiis family. Dino did not stop and continued, like pancakes, to bake such films as Serpico, Three Days of the Condor, Desire for Death, Conan the Barbarian. The monster hit "King Kong" brought about $ 100 million and brought De Laurentiis to the ranks of major players in the American film industry. And how many actors should put a memorial to De Laurentiis for accelerating their careers? Al Pacino and Charles Bronson, Jessica Lange and Arnold Schwarzenegger, that’s when you think of what comes to mind. There will soon be no room for awards in his home. Two Oscars (Nights of Cabiria and The Road by Federico Fellini, by the way, both went as foreign films), thirty-three nominations for it, the Golden Palm Branch of the Cannes Film Festival, three Golden Lions festival in Venice, eight Italian Oscars, and more than forty Golden Globe nominations.