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Giulia Anna "Giulietta" Masina (22 February 1921 – 23 March 1994) was an Italian film actress best known for her performances as Gelsomina in La Strada (1954) and Cabiria in Nights of Cabiria (1957), for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.
Her artistic partnership with her husband really took off with the Oscar-winning La strada (1954), followed by The Swindle (1955) and the widely acclaimed Nights of Cabiria (1957), which again won an Oscar and brought her the award for Best Female Performance at the Cannes Film Festival.
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In addition to the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for Giulietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria won the 1957 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This was the second straight year Italy and Fellini won this Academy Award, having previously won for La Strada, which also starred Masina.
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Mar 23, 1994 · Giulietta Masina (22 February 1921 – 23 March 1994) was an Italian film and stage actress. She starred in La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, in 1956 and 1957, respectively. Masina won the Best Actress award at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival for the later film.
Sep 12, 2013 · Oscars. 2.74M subscribers. Subscribed. 1K. 67K views 10 years ago. Fred Astaire and Dana Wynter present the Oscar® for Foreign Language Film to Italy for "The Nights of Cabiria" at the 30th Academy...
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Women. Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps. Masina, Giulietta (1920–1994) views 1,809,836 updated. Masina, Giulietta (1920–1994) Award-winning Italian actress who earned international recognition for her portrayal of Gelsomina in La Strada .
Apr 23, 2024 · Masina won a Silver Ribbon (Italy’s major film award) for best supporting actress for her first important movie role, that of a prostitute in Alberto Lattuada’s Senza pietà (1948; Without Pity ), coscripted by Fellini.
