Dino De Laurentiis Biography

Fast Facts

• Father was a pasta maker
• Studied to be a cinematographer
• Produced first film by the age of 20
• In the 1950s, joined fellow filmmaker Carlo Ponti to establish the production company Ponti-De Laurentiis
• The company produced the venerated, Oscar-winning Federico Fellini films La Strada (1954) and Nights of Cabiria (1957)
• Created his own sprawling movie studio, Dinocitta, in the 1960s
• Moved to the United States in the early 1970s after the failure of Dinocitta
• In 2001, he received the Irving G
• Thalberg Award at the Oscars for having "the most consistent high level of production achievement by an individual producer
• " Granddaughter is celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis