Known thanks to films like La Strada (1954)u Eight and a half (1963), this Italian filmmaker was born in Rimini in January 1920. In 1939 he moved to Florence and later to Rome, where he worked as a journalist, writer, and illustrator. His first professional experience in the world of cinema took place in 1945, when he collaborated with Roberto Rossellini on the screenplay for Rome, an open city. 

He then worked as a screenwriter and assistant director before directing his first feature film, but it wasn't until his third solo feature film that he began to be widely known: The useless ones (1953), linked to neorealism, and later La Strada (1954) and The Nights of Cabiria (1956), the latter two starring Giulietta Masina (his wife) and awarded with Academy Awards, launched him to international success. 

The great commercial reception of Dolce vita (1960) allowed him to move away from the neorealism of his early films and explore territory that was sometimes autobiographical and closer to surrealist currents. Fellini, who always co-wrote his screenplays (with Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano until 1965 and later with Bernardino Zapponi or Tonino Guerra), was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Director, winning only an honorary statuette in 1992. This director and screenwriter, however, went up to collect the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film four times, thanks to La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, 8½ y AmarcordFederico Fellini died in Rome in 1993.