Ettore Scola

Ettore Scola was born in Trevico, in the province of Avellino, on 10 May 1931. A young cartoonist and humorist for the weekly Marc'Aurelio, he became a screenwriter in the early 1950s, often with Ruggero Maccari, before moving into directing in 1964. He won two prizes at Cannes, first for direction and then for a screenplay, and was nominated four times for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1989, he was Minister of Culture in the Communist Party's shadow cabinet. He died in Rome on 19 January 2016.

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• CinemaUgly, Dirty and BadBrutti, sporchi e cattiviEttore Scola · 1976Cinema