Nanni Loy
Nanni Loy | |
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Nanni Loy in the movie Radiocorriere magazine, 1966 | |
Born | Giovanni Loi (1925-10-23)23 October 1925 Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy |
Died | 21 August 1995(1995-08-21) (aged 69) Fregene, Rome, Italy |
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) |
Nanni Loy (born Giovanni Loi; 23 October 1925 – 21 August 1995) was an Italian film, theatre and TV director. Specifically, Nanni Loy was Sardinian, and one of several notable Sardinian film makers, including Franco Solinas.
Biography
Loy was born in Cagliari, Sardinia: his father was Guglielmo Loy-Donà, a lawyer issue from a distinguished Sardinian-Venetian family, and his mother was the noblewoman Donna Anna Sanjust of the Marquesses of Neoneli.[1] Rosetta Loy, an Italian novelist, is his sister-in-law.[circular reference]
He became famous for introducing in Italy the candid camera with his show Specchio segreto (Secret mirror) in 1965.
His 1962 film The Four Days of Naples was nominated for two Academy Awards.[2] It also won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival in 1963.[3]
His 1971 film Detenuto in attesa di giudizio was entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival. The star, Alberto Sordi, won the Silver Bear for Best Actor award.[4]
He specialized in comedy films such as Padre di famiglia but he also shot film dealing with social themes (Detenuto in attesa di giudizio and Sistemo l'America e torno).[5]
Loy died at Fregene, near Rome, in 1995.[6]
Partial filmography
- Parola di ladro (1956) (with Gianni Puccini)
- Il marito (1958) (with Gianni Puccini)
- Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (1959)
- Un giorno da leoni (1961)
- Le quattro giornate di Napoli (1962)
- Beautiful Families (1964)
- Made in Italy (1965)
- Il padre di famiglia (1967)
- Rosolino Paternò soldato (1970)
- Detenuto in attesa di giudizio (1971)
- Sistemo l'America e torno (1973)
- Signore e signori, buonanotte (1976)
- Quelle strane occasioni (1976), fragment "Italian Superman", credited as Anonymous
- Basta che non-si sappia in giro (1976)
- Café Express (1980)
- Testa o croce (1982)
- Mi manda Picone (1983)
- Amici miei atto III (1985)
- Scugnizzi (1989)
- Pacco, doppio pacco e contropaccotto (1993)
References
- ^ [1] See the marriage notice in the Sanjust family tree (in Italian). Retrieved on 2011-12-5.
- ^ "The 35th Academy Awards (1963) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
- ^ "3rd Moscow International Film Festival (1963)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
- ^ "Berlinale 1972: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
- ^ Passarin, Sara Greta (6 June 2022). "Nanni Loy, biografia e carriera dell'autore italiano". True News. (in Italian). Retrieved 11 August 2022.
- ^ John Tagliabue (23 August 1995). "Nanni Loy, 69, Italian Director Known for Films on Wartime". The New York Times. p. B7. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
External links
- Nanni Loy at IMDb
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- Alessandro Blasetti / Vittorio De Sica (1946)
- Roberto Rossellini (1947)
- Alberto Lattuada / Giuseppe De Santis (1948)
- Vittorio De Sica (1949)
- Augusto Genina (1950)
- Alessandro Blasetti (1951)
- Renato Castellani (1952)
- Luigi Zampa (1953)
- Federico Fellini (1954)
- Federico Fellini (1955)
- Michelangelo Antonioni (1956)
- Pietro Germi (1957)
- Federico Fellini (1958)
- Pietro Germi (1959)
- Roberto Rossellini (1960)
- Luchino Visconti (1961)
- Michelangelo Antonioni (1962)
- Nanni Loy / Francesco Rosi (1963)
- Federico Fellini (1964)
- Pier Paolo Pasolini (1965)
- Antonio Pietrangeli (1966)
- Gillo Pontecorvo (1967)
- Elio Petri (1968)
- Franco Zeffirelli (1969)
- Luchino Visconti (1970)
- Elio Petri (1971)
- Luchino Visconti (1972)
- Bernardo Bertolucci (1973)
- Federico Fellini (1974)
- Luchino Visconti (1975)
- Michelangelo Antonioni (1976)
- Valerio Zurlini (1977)
- Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (1978)
- Ermanno Olmi (1979)
- Federico Fellini (1980)
- Francesco Rosi (1981)
- Marco Ferreri (1982)
- Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (1983)
- Pupi Avati / Federico Fellini (1984)
- Sergio Leone (1985)
- Mario Monicelli (1986)
- Ettore Scola (1987)
- Bernardo Bertolucci (1988)
- Ermanno Olmi (1989)
- Pupi Avati (1990)
- Gianni Amelio (1991)
- Gabriele Salvatores (1992)
- Gianni Amelio (1993)
- Nanni Moretti (1994)
- Gianni Amelio (1995)
- Giuseppe Tornatore (1996)
- Maurizio Nichetti (1997)
- Roberto Benigni (1998)
- Giuseppe Tornatore (1999)
- Silvio Soldini (2000)
- Nanni Moretti (2001)
- Marco Bellocchio (2002)
- Gabriele Salvatores (2003)
- Marco Tullio Giordana (2004)
- Gianni Amelio (2005)
- Michele Placido (2006)
- Giuseppe Tornatore (2007)
- Paolo Virzì (2008)
- Paolo Sorrentino (2009)
- Paolo Virzì (2010)
- Nanni Moretti (2011)
- Paolo Sorrentino (2012)
- Giuseppe Tornatore (2013)
- Paolo Virzì (2014)
- Paolo Sorrentino (2015)
- Paolo Virzì (2016)
- Gianni Amelio (2017)
- Matteo Garrone (2018)
- Marco Bellocchio (2019)
- Matteo Garrone (2020)
- Emma Dante (2021)
- Mario Martone (2022)