New Italian Cinema / Nuovo Cinema Italiano

With 14 Academy Award wins in the Foreign Language Film category (now called International Feature Film), Italy has historically been recognized in this category more than any other country. Beginning with the neorealism period that saw both Vittorio De Sica’s Shoeshine (1946) and The Bicycle Thief (1948) take home Honorary Awards, the country has seen nominations or wins in every decade, most notably for the virtuosic Federico Fellini. Since the turn of the century, the increasingly globalized market has created an influx of international co-productions, allowing Italian films to extend beyond the borders of the filmmakers’ birthplace to reflect the interconnected world in which we exist and in which art is made. Complementary to our limited series Ennio Morricone: Essential Scores from a Movie Maestro (screening October 6–November 25, 2023), the Academy Museum is proud to present this unique window into the last five years of cinema, Italian style.