Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit. Along with Dino De Laurentiis, he is credited with reinvigorating and popularizing Italian cinema post-World War II, producing some of the country's most acclaimed and financially-successful films of the 1950s and 1960s.
Ponti worked with many of the most important directors of Italian cinema of the era, including Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Vittorio De Sica, as well as many international directors. He helped launch the career of his wife, international film star Sophia Loren. He won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film for La Strada (1954) and was nominated for Best Picture for producing Doctor Zhivago (1965). In 1996, he was ascended as a Knight Grand Cross to the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
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Academy Awards
Best International Feature Film
Known For
Doctor Zhivago
(1965)
Producer
Blow-Up
(1966)
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Two Women
(1960)
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The 10th Victim
(1965)
Producer
Contempt
(1963)
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La Strada
(1954)
Producer
Cléo from 5 to 7
(1962)
Producer
Le Doulos
(1962)
Producer
Ulysses
(1954)
Producer
War and Peace
(1956)
Executive Producer
Operation Crossbow
(1965)
Producer
What?
(1972)
Producer
The Firemen's Ball
(1967)
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The Cassandra Crossing
(1976)
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The Passenger
(1975)
Producer
A Place for Lovers
(1968)
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Full Filmography
Production
Piccolo mondo antico
(1941)
Producer
Signorinette
(1942)
Producer
Giacomo l'idealista
(1943)
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La freccia nel fianco
(1945)
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Two Anonymous Letters
(1945)
Producer
Un americano in vacanza
(1946)
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Professor, My Son
(1946)
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Albergo Luna, camera 34
(1946)
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To Live in Peace
(1947)
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La primula bianca
(1947)
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Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
(1948)
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Lovers Without Love
(1948)
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Lost Youth
(1948)
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Guaglio
(1948)
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Les Misérables - Manhunt
(1948)
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Without Pity
(1948)
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Escape to France
(1948)
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The Emperor of Capri
(1949)
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Romanticismo
(1949)
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Campane a martello
(1949)
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Totò cerca casa
(1949)
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The Mill on the Po
(1949)
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A Dog’s Life
(1950)
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È arrivato il Cavaliere
(1950)
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Outlaw Girl
(1950)
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Her Favourite Husband
(1950)
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The White Line
(1950)
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Anna
(1951)
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Last Meeting
(1951)
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Toto the Third Man
(1951)
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Damn the Taxes!!
(1951)
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Il padrone del vapore
(1951)
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Cops and Robbers
(1951)
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È arrivato l'accordatore
(1952)
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Sensualità
(1952)
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Europe '51
(1952)
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Girls Marked Danger
(1952)
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Toto and the Women
(1952)
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Totó in color
(1952)
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Brothers of Italy
(1952)
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I tre corsari
(1952)
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The She-Wolf
(1953)
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Easy Years
(1953)
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Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair
(1953)
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The Unfaithfuls
(1953)
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Woman of Rome
(1954)
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Ulysses
(1954)
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Mambo
(1954)
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La Strada
(1954)
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An American in Rome
(1954)
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Il medico dei pazzi
(1954)
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Woman of the River
(1954)
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Where Is Freedom?
(1954)
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Human Torpedoes
(1954)
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Attila
(1954)
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The Gold of Naples
(1954)
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Totò all'inferno
(1955)
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The Miller's Beautiful Wife
(1955)
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Girls of Today
(1955)
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L'ultimo amante
(1955)
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War and Peace
(1956)
Executive Producer
Peccato di castità
(1956)
Producer
The Railroad Man
(1956)
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Rice Girl
(1956)
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Marisa la civetta
(1957)
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Guendalina
(1957)
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Female Three Times
(1957)
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Susanna tutta panna
(1957)
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Camping
(1958)
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March's Child
(1958)
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The Black Orchid
(1959)
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That Kind of Woman
(1959)
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Heller in Pink Tights
(1960)
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Il corazziere
(1960)
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Two Women
(1960)
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Letters of a Novice
(1960)
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A Breath of Scandal
(1960)
Producer
Lola
(1961)
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Léon Morin, Priest
(1961)
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A Woman Is a Woman
(1961)
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Cléo from 5 to 7
(1962)
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The Condemned of Altona
(1962)
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Le Doulos
(1962)
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Arturo's Island
(1962)
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The Third Lover
(1962)
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Boccaccio '70
(1962)
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Redhead
(1962)
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Adultero lui, adultera lei
(1963)
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
(1963)
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The Carabineers
(1963)
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Bluebeard
(1963)
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Contempt
(1963)
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The Empty Canvas
(1963)
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The Ape Woman
(1964)
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Marriage Italian Style
(1964)
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Controsesso
(1964)
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Operation Crossbow
(1965)
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Lady L
(1965)
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The 10th Victim
(1965)
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Casanova '70
(1965)
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Doctor Zhivago
(1965)
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A Look Back at Crossbow
(1965)
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Oggi, domani, dopodomani
(1965)
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Blow-Up
(1966)
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More Than a Miracle
(1967)
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Smashing Time
(1967)
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The Man with the Balloons
(1967)
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The Firemen's Ball
(1967)
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The 25th Hour
(1967)
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Ghosts, Italian Style
(1967)
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The Girl and the General
(1967)
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Diamonds for Breakfast
(1968)
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A Place for Lovers
(1968)
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The Priest's Wife
(1970)
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Zabriskie Point
(1970)
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Sunflower
(1970)
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Oasis of Fear
(1971)
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Lady Liberty
(1971)
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White Sister
(1972)
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What?
(1972)
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The Pisciotta Case
(1972)
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Massacre in Rome
(1973)
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Gawain and the Green Knight
(1973)
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Flesh for Frankenstein
(1973)
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Dirty Weekend
(1973)
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Giordano Bruno
(1973)
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Torso
(1973)
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Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment
(1973)
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Dear Parents
(1973)
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The Violent Professionals
(1973)
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Blood for Dracula
(1974)
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Whisky and Ghosts
(1974)
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Brief Encounter
(1974)
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Policewoman
(1974)
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Run, Run, Joe!
(1974)
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Jury of One
(1974)
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The Voyage
(1974)
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The Beast
(1974)
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Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
(1974)
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High School Girl
(1974)
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Cry, Onion!
(1975)
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The Boss and the Worker
(1975)
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Gun Moll
(1975)
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The Baby Sitter
(1975)
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The Sensuous Nurse
(1975)
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The Passenger
(1975)
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The Flower in His Mouth
(1975)
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Ugly, Dirty and Bad
(1976)
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The Cassandra Crossing
(1976)
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Colpita da improvviso benessere
(1976)
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A Special Day
(1977)
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Twilight of Love
(1977)
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The Squeeze
(1978)
Executive Producer
Killer Fish
(1979)
Executive Producer
Saturday, Sunday and Monday
(1990)
Executive Producer
Acting
Crew