Cinematographer Lina Vertmiller, the first female director to be nominated for an Oscar, passed away last night at the age of 93, according to Italian media.
Vertmiller, who began her career as an assistant to Federico Fellini in “8 1/2”, remains with Liliana Cavani, one of the few women who sealed Italian cinema in 1960-70.
He became internationally known with the film “Mime the Blacksmith” (1972), a satire aimed at the mafia and Sicilian customs.
It continues with “History of Love and Anarchy”, a political tale set in Italy during the rise of fascism. The film presented Giancarlo Giannini with the Male Performance Award at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
With # LinaWertmüller a legend of the #cinema Italian, a great director who has made films full of irony and intelligence, the first woman nominated for an Oscar for best director. #Roma he will give her his final farewell setting up the funeral parlor in the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/Vs3hu4Ye6B
– Roberto Gualtieri (@gualtierieurope) December 9, 2021
In 1974, always together with Giancarlo Giannini, the film “The Lady and the Sailor” was released, a comedy in which the war of the sexes and the class struggle coexist.
The film “Pascualino and the 7 beauties” will follow, where he approaches the issue of survival in the concentration camps. In 1977, the film was nominated for four Academy Awards, and Vertmiller became the first female director to be nominated for an Academy Award, which would eventually be awarded to John G. Avildsen for the movie “Rocky”.
In 2019, she received an honorary Oscar for her entire career.
Born in Rome on August 14, 1928, Lina Vertmiller, whose full name was Arcanela Felice Assunda Vertmiller von Elg Spanol von Brauich, made her first film in 1963, “I basilischi”, a work inspired by at the Locarno Festival.
Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri paid tribute on his Twitter account to “a legend of Italian cinema, a great filmmaker who made films full of irony and intelligence”.
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