Carlo Ponti
Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI 11 December 1912 10 January 2007 was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit Along with Dino De Laurentiis he is credited with reinvigorating and popularizing Italian cinema postWorld War II producing some of the countrys most acclaimed and financiallysuccessful films of the 1950s and 1960s Ponti worked with many of the most important directors of Italian cinema of the era including Federico Fellini Michelangelo Antonioni and Vittorio De Sica as well as many international directors He helped launch the career of his wife international film star Sophia Loren He won the Academy Award for Best ForeignLanguage Film for La Strada 1954 and was nominated for Best Picture for producing Doctor Zhivago 1965 In 1996 he was ascended as a Knight Grand Cross to the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Description above from the Wikipedia article Carlo Ponti licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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