Carlo Ponti

Producer · Born 11 December 1912 in Magenta, Lombardy, Italy · Died 10 January 2007 · 10 credits in the Movie Owl catalogue

10 of Carlo Ponti’s films and series stream in Sweden right now — 6 on Cineasterna and 4 on Netflix. Highest rated available: A Special Day (1977) ★ 8.1.

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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Producing

• Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
• Contempt (1963)
• A Special Day (1977)
• Where Is Freedom? (1954)
• A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
• Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976)
• Lola (1961)
• Bluebeard (1963)
• The Carabineers (1963)
• The Third Lover (1962)

Not streaming in Sweden right now

• Blow-Up (1966)
• Doctor Zhivago (1965)
• La Strada (1954)
• Two Women (1960)
• Marriage Italian Style (1964)
• The Passenger (1975)
• Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
• Zabriskie Point (1970)
• Le Doulos (1962)
• An American in Rome (1954)
• The Firemen's Ball (1967)
• Ulysses (1954)