Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni was an Italian film actor. His honours have included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards. He is one of the greatest Italian actors in the history of cinema, as well as one of the best known a... More

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni was an Italian film actor. His honours have included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards. He is one of the greatest Italian actors in the history of cinema, as well as one of the best known and most appreciated abroad since the 1960s, notably for his roles in seven of Federico Fellini's films, including La Dolce Vita (1960) and 8 1/2 Years (1963), as well as for the twelve films in which he co-starred with Sophia Loren. Capable of seamlessly juggling dramatic and comedic roles, he is generally associated with the greats of Italian comedy such as Alberto Sordi, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, and Nino Manfredi. Unlike his Italian colleagues, Mastroianni also starred in several French films, the most famous of which was La Grande Bouffe (1973) with Philippe Noiret and his friend Michel Piccoli. During these years, he also had an affair with Catherine Deneuve, which considerably increased his notoriety in France. He has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Divorce Italian Style (1961), A Special Day (1977), and Black Eyes (1987). He has won numerous major awards: two Golden Globes, two BAFTAs, eight David di Donatello Awards, eight Silver Ribbon Awards, five Globi d'Oro Awards, and a Ciak d'Oro. Along with Jack Lemmon and Dean Stockwell, he is one of three actors to have won the Best Actor Award twice at the Cannes Film Festival, in 1970 for A Drama of Jealousy and in 1987 for Nikita Mikhalkov's Black Eyes. He has twice won the Coppa Volpi at the Venice Film Festival for What Time Is It by Ettore Scola and One, Two, Three, Sun by Bertrand Blier. In 1990, he received the Golden Lion for his entire career and in 1993, an honorary César.