Ettore Scola (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛttore ˈskɔːla]; 10 May 1931 – 19 January 2016) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He received a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1978 for his film A Special Day and over the course of his film career was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Scola was born in Trevico, Avellino, Campania. From age 15, he became a ghostwriter. He entered the film industry as a screenwriter in 1953, and collaborated with director Dino Risi and fellow writer Ruggero Maccari on the screenplay for Risi's feature, Il Sorpasso (1962). He directed his first film, Let's Talk About Women, in 1964. In 1974 Scola enjoyed international success with We All Loved Each Other So Much (C'eravamo tanto amati), a wide fresco of post-World War II Italian life and politics, dedicated to fellow director Vittorio De Sica. The film won the Golden Prize at the 9th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1976 he won the Prix de la mise en scène at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival for Brutti, sporchi e cattivi. Scola made further successful films, including A Special Day (1977), That Night In Varennes (1982), What Time Is It? (1989) and Captain Fracassa's Journey (1990). He directed close to 40 films in some 40 years. His film Passione d'amore, adapted from a 19th-century novel, was adapted by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine into the award-winning musical Passion. He was a member of the jury at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. Scola died in Rome on 19 January 2016 at the age of 84. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ettore Scola, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2023Down So Long — Original Story
• 2021A Bookshop in Paris — Original Story
• 2021Morceaux de Cannes
• 2016At War for Love — Thanks
• 2016Puccini: La Bohème — Stage Director
• 2013How Strange to be Named Federico — Director, Writer
• 2012Furio Scarpelli - Il racconto prima di tutto — Sé stesso
• 2007THE INTERPRETER OF BLACK AND WHITE FILMS — Ettore Scola
• 2003Letters from Palestine — Director
• 2003People of Rome — Director, Writer
• 2002The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops — Director
• 2002«Permette? Ettore Scola» una conversazione con Lino Miccichè — Se stesso
• 2001Unfair Competition — Screenplay, Director
• 1998The Dinner — Director, Writer
• 19971943-1997 — Scenario Writer, Director
• 1996Cresceranno i carciofi a Mimongo — Thanks
• 1995Rome, November 12, 1994 — Director
• 1995The Story of a Poor Young Man — Screenplay, Director, Story
• 1993Mario, Maria and Mario — Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1990The Voyage of Captain Fracassa — Screenplay, Director
• 1989Splendor — Director, Screenplay
• 1989What Time Is It? — Director, Screenplay, Story
• Piazza Navona - Sei opere prime — Producer, Creator
• 1987The Family — Director, Screenplay, Story, Editor
• Cinecittà Cinecittà
• 1985Macaroni — Director, Story, Screenplay
• 1984Cuori nella tormenta — Screenplay
• 1984Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer — Self, Director
• 1983Le Bal — Director, Writer, Scenario Writer
• American Playhouse — Story
• 1982That Night of Varennes — Writer, Director
• 1981Passion of Love — Director, Screenplay
• 1980The Terrace — Director, Story, Screenplay
• 1980Vorrei Che Volo — Director, Screenplay
• 1977A Special Day — Director, Story, Screenplay
• 1977The New Monsters — Director
• 1976Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen — Director, Story
• 1976Il silenzio è complicità — Editor, Screenplay
• 1976Ugly, Dirty and Bad — Director, Writer
• 1974We All Loved Each Other So Much — Director, Story, Screenplay
• 1973Festival dell’Unità 1972 — Director
• 1973Trevico-Turin: Voyage in Fiatnam — Writer, Director
• 1972The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life — Writer, Director
• 1971My Name Is Rocco Papaleo — Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1971That's How We Women Are — Screenplay
• 1970A Drama of Jealousy (and other things) — Director, Screenplay
• 1969Police Chief Pepe — Director, Screenplay
• 1968The Prophet — Story, Screenplay
• 1968Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? — Screenplay, Director, Dialogue
• 1967Anyone Can Play — Screenplay, Story
• 1966The Devil in Love — Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1965Complexes — Story, Screenplay
• 1965I Knew Her Well — Story, Screenplay
• 1965Made in Italy — Story, Screenplay
• 1965Thrilling — Screenplay, Story, Director
• 1964High Infidelity — Story, Screenplay
• 1964Il gaucho — Story, Screenplay
• 1964Let's Talk About Women — Director, Story, Screenplay
• 1964One Million Dollars — Director, Story, Screenplay
• 1964The Magnificent Cuckold — Screenplay, Dialogue
• 1963I cuori infranti — Story
• 1963Il successo — Screenplay, Story
• 1963The Girl from Parma — Screenplay
• 1963The Monsters — Screenplay, Dialogue, Story
• 1963The Visitor — Screenplay, Story
• 1962Il Sorpasso — Story, Screenplay
• 1962March on Rome — Screenplay, Story
• 1962Roaring Years — Screenplay
• 1962Sex Can Be Difficult — Screenplay
• 1961Ghosts of Rome — Story, Screenplay
• 1961The Policeman on Horseback — Screenplay, Co-Director, Story
• 1960Adua and Her Friends — Screenplay, Story
• 1960Le pillole di Ercole — Dialogue
• 1960Love and Larceny — Screenplay
• 1959First Love — Screenplay, Story
• 1959Nel blu dipinto di blu — Screenplay
• 1958Il marito — Screenplay
• 1958March's Child — Screenplay
• 1958Totò in the Moon — Screenplay
• 1957Il conte Max — Screenplay
• 1957Non sono più guaglione — Screenplay
• 1956Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo — Screenplay
• 1956I giorni più belli — Writer
• 1956Mi permette babbo! — Screenplay
• 1955Good night… lawyer! — Screenplay
• 1955I pappagalli — Screenplay
• 1955It Happened in the Penitentiary — Screenplay
• 1955The Bachelor — Screenplay
• 1954A Parisian in Rome — Story, Screenplay
• 1954An American in Rome — Story, Screenplay
• 1954Gran varietà — Writer
• 1954It Happened at the Police Station — Dialogue, Screenplay
• 1954Laugh! Laugh! Laugh! — Screenplay
• 1954Mid-Century Loves — Screenplay
• 1954Rosso e nero — Writer
• 1954Two Nights with Cleopatra — Screenplay, Story
• 1953Cavalcade of Song — Writer
• 1953Fermi tutti... arrivo io! — Screenplay
• 1952Half a Century of Song — Writer

Appearances as themselves (29)

• 2024Ciao Marcello - Mastroianni l'antidivo — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Les Jours et les Nuits — Self
• 2019Ettore Scola, nous l'avons tant aimé — Self
• 2019Sophia Loren, a special destiny — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life — Self
• 2015Il segreto di Otello — Self
• 2015Ridendo e scherzando - Ritratto di un regista all'italiana — Self
• 2014C'era una volta il prossimamente — Self
• 2014Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori — Self
• 2014Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione — Self
• 2013Alberto il grande — Self
• 2012Monicelli: La versione di Mario — Self (archive footage)
• 2011Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane — Self
• 2011Voi siete qui — Self
• 2010L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo — Self
• 2010Portrait Of My Father — Self
• 2010Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore — Self
• 2009Vittorio D. — Self
• 2007Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne — Self
• 2007Linee d'ombra — Self
• 2007RomAmor: Alberto Sordi, from Rome to the whole world — Self
• 2007Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow — Self
• 2006Marcello, una vita dolce — Self
• 2002The Magic of Fellini — Self (archive footage)
• 2001La strana coppia. Incontro con Age e Scarpelli — Self
• Ciné regards — Self
• Midi Première — Self
• Spécial cinéma — Self