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
La Dolce Viva La Dolce Viva La Dolce Viva is a nonfiction novel written by Barbara L. Goldsmith, first published in 1968 in "New York Magazine", about a destroyed one-named actress, Viva, who is drugged out and couldn’t pay her phone bill. Barbara Goldsmith is an American author, journalist, and philanthropist. Her "La Dolce Viva" made known the sadder side of Andy Warhol’s entourage through Viva, a high on drugs “superstar.” "La Dolce Viva" is an interview story with "superstar" Viva, who is one of the many actresses in Andy Warhol's movies. Viva was headlined as 'The Last of Andy Warhol's "superstars", as