Writer
Suso Cecchi D'Amico
1914 – 2010
- Active years (films on this site)
- 1954–1965
- Schools and movements
- Italian Neorealism and After
Directors worked with
Biography
Giovanna Cecchi, known professionally as Suso Cecchi d'Amico, was an Italian screenwriter and actress. She was one of the first female Italian screenwriters and helped pioneer the Italian neorealist movement. Though her screenwriting career spanned sixty years, she won the 1980 David di Donatello Award for lifetime career as well as the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 1994 Venice Film Festival.
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Awards and honours
International
- Nastro d'Argento for Best Screenplay 1949
- David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement 1980
- Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement 1994
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1996
- Christopher Award
- Ciak d'oro - Best screenplay
- Ciak d'oro for career
- David di Donatello Luchino Visconti
- David di Donatello for Best Script
- Gold Medal of the Italian Order of Merit for Culture and Art
- Nastro d'Argento for Best Subject