Federico Fellini is one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of the last century. Over a career of more than fifty years, he won five Academy Awards. He won the most Oscars in history for Best Foreign Language Film. Starting work as an assistant scriptwriter, he gained access to the inner workings of how films are created and edited. Films such as Roma città aperta and Paisà were nominated for their screen plays. Soon, he progressed to directing films and created master pieces such as Nights of Cabiria, 8½, Juliet of the Spirits, La Strada, La Dolce Vita and Amarcord. His films offer a combination of themes including memory, dreams, fantasy and desire giving rise to the term "Felliniesque" used when depicting an ordinary scene that has been altered by the addition of hallucinatory imagery.
