Lina Wertmüller
Directing · Screenplay · Director · Producer
Born Aug 14, 1928 · Rome, Italy
Active 1953–2021
Lina Wertmüller (14 August 1926 - 9 December 2021) was an Italian film writer and director of aristocratic Swiss descent. In 1976, she became the first woman ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing with the film Seven…
Filmography
Ciao, Professore! (1992) — Director · Story · ScreenplaySwept Away (1974) — Director · Story · ScreenplayWelcome Mr. President! (2013) — Potere ForteSeven Beauties (1975) — Producer · Writer · DirectorLove and Anarchy (1973) — Director · Story · ScreenplayBrother Sun, Sister Moon (1972) — ScreenplayThe Seduction of Mimi (1972) — Director · Story · ScreenplayThe Basilisks (1963) — Director · Screenplay · StoryViolent City (1970) — ScreenplaySwept Away (2002) — Original Film WriterSaturday, Sunday and Monday (1990) — Director · WriterThus Spoke De Crescenzo (2017)Francesca and Nunziata (2003) — DirectorBlood Feud (1978) — Director · WriterWhich Way Is Up? (1977) — Original Film WriterThe Belle Starr Story (1968) — Director · WriterCiao, Federico! (1970) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)Ferdinando and Carolina (1999) — Director · WriterAll Screwed Up (1974) — Director · WriterGian Burrasca's Diary (1964) — Director · DialogueToo Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers (2006) — Director · WriterOn a Moonlit Night (1989) — Director · Story · ScreenplayÈ una domenica sera di novembre (1981) — DirectorNessuno deve sapere (1973) — Story