2022Winner
Best Performance
Ennio
Roberto Faenza
Actor · Director · Writer
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
February 21, 1943
Biography
Roberto Faenza (born 21 February 1943 in Turin) is an Italian film director. He received a degree in Political Science and a diploma at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Faenza made his directing debut in 1968 with the international success, Escalation, a film that describes the different sides of power through the relationship between a middle-class father and his hippie son. Immediately after that he directed H2S, an angry apology of the 1968 movement, seized two days after its release and not distributed since. Upon this sequestration he travelled to the United States to teach at the Federal City College of Washington DC.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1977Winner
Best Writing
Forza Italia!
1968Nominee
Best Writing
Escalation
Career Highlights
1997Highlight
Best Writing
Marianna Ucrìa
1983Highlight
Best Director
Copkiller