World, but most people don't understand that. Lies and to amuse.' Although Fellini opposed in principle literaryĪdaptations and wrote all his scripts, he used works from such writersĪs Edgar Allan Poe ( Tre Passi del delirio),įour of Fellini's movies won Oscars for best foreign-language film. Once he remarked, 'I make pictures to tell a story, to tell Shifting boundary between illusion, studio-built artificiality, and Typical for Fellini's films is carnivalesque style and constantly Male alter ego, and Giulietta Masina, Fellini's wife, was known as the Marcello Mastroianni played in several productions Fellini's Fellini began his career as a cartoonist, journalist, and Include La Strada (1955), La Dolce Vita (1960), and 8 Italian film director and writer, whose most famous films A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z