Italy is a country where cinema has always been important and popular. Although the golden age of neorealism and worldwide appreciation in the 50s and 60s is just a memory, our film industry is alive and kicking.
Well, Italian film industry has produced so many great movies and featured so many great actors and actresses! Some of them have also made it to Hollywood. Now, in my post I'll focus on a short list of 5 awesome Italian actors. Here's my top 5 best Italian film stars. Are you ready?
5. ROBERTO
BENIGNI
He was born in 1952 in Manciano la Misericordia, Tuscany. He gained international recognition for writing, directing and starring in the Holocaust comedy-drama film Life Is Beautiful (1997), for which he received the Academy Awards as Best Actor.
4. TERENCE
HILL
He was born as Mario Girotti on March 29, 1939 in Venice. He made his first film at the age of 12, Vacation with a Gangster (1954). He continued acting to finance his studies and motorcycle hobby.
3. ALBERTO
SORDI
He is one of Italy’s most captivating and talented cinematic stars, and he was known for satirizing his country’s social mores in black comedy.
2. GIANCARLO
GIANNINI
Giancarlo Giannini is an Oscar-nominated Italian actor, director and multilingual dubber who made an international reputation for his leading roles in Italian films as well as for his mastery of a variety of languages and dialects. His credits included performances in contemporary Italian plays, as well as in Italian productions of William Shakespeare’s plays “Romeo and Juliet” and “A Midsummer’s Night Dream”.
1. VITTORIO
DE SICA
Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: Sciuscià and Bicycle Thieves (honorary), while Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and Il giardino dei Finzi Contini won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
De Sica was also nominated for the 1957 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor's 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.
Simone S., 4scB
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