Italian cinema legend De Laurentiis dies

[tishaLA]

Source: AFP

Dino De Laurentiis, producer of some of Italy's best-known films including works by Federico Fellini and Roberto Rossellini, has died in Los Angeles aged 91, Italian media reported on Thursday.

The Oscar-winner also produced several famous films in the United States, including "Serpico" with Al Pacino in 1973, "Three Days of the Condor" with Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway in 1975 and Ridley Scott's "Hannibal" in 2001.

"Cinema has lost one of its greats," said Walter Veltroni, an Italian lawmaker and former mayor of Rome who founded the Rome Film Festival. <...>

He won an Oscar in 1956 for Fellini's "La Strada" and was nominated 38 times. In 2001, he received the Irving G.Thalberg Memorial Award at the Oscars for demonstrating "a consistently high quality of motion picture production."

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RIP, Mr De Laurentiis.

[niyad]

1. RIP Dino

[John Kerry VonErich]

2. Don't forget Dune and King Kong

RIP

[Iggo]

3. Fuck yeah, Dino. Fuck yeah.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. A long and delicious life...

He was a unique man, and I will remember him for the shows, the haircuts and for the DDL Foodshow, and those it sustained for a time. God bless you on your way Dino. You were loyal and kind and inclusive and strange.

[ooglymoogly]

5. Sad proof that giants too, die.

91 really good years, is a pretty good run. Safe passage Dino.

[CatWoman]

6. isn't this Giada's father?

(Giada on the Food Network)?

[tishaLA]

7. her grandfather

[CatWoman]

9. ty Tisha

:)

[davidwparker]

8. RIP

[thelordofhell]

10. He also produced the Conan movies

He now sits upon the high mountain with Crom, laughing at all of us pitiful mortals who knows not the riddle of steel.

[madrchsod]

11. he accomplished so much in his life...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. FLASH! AH-AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[Vidar]

13. You were one hell of producer, Dino, & a bon vivant for the ages.

Vaya con Dios.

[PopSixSquish]

14. Goodbye Sir, It was Our Pleasure

:toast:

[Javaman]

15. Oh Dino, La Dolce Vita...

You indeed lived a sweet life.

You were one of the biggest influences in my early filmmaking career.

Rest in Peace.