Federico Fellini the Palme d'Or for "La Dolce Vita", was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, and won four in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. At the 65th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles, he received an honorary award for Lifetime Achievement. Besides "La Dolce Vita" and "8½", his other well-known films include "La Strada", "Nights of Cabiria", "Juliet of the Spirits", "Satyricon", "Amarcord" and "Fellini's Casanova". Fellini was born on 20 January 1920, to middle-class parents in Rimini, then a small town on the Adriatic Sea. His father, Urbano Fellini (1894–1956), born to a family of Romagnol peasants and small
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