8½ is a 1963 Italian film directed by Federico Fellini, centered on a film director experiencing creative block while attempting to begin a new production, a subject drawn closely from Fellini's own circumstances at the time. The film blends its protagonist's memories, fantasies and daily pressures into a single fluid narrative, an approach widely credited with helping establish the modern film-about-filmmaking as a genre and with influencing generations of later directors internationally. 8½ won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and later inspired the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Nine, and it continues to place highly in critics' polls of the greatest films ever made, including a top-ten finish in the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight and Sound poll.
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Which Academy Awards did 8½ win?
It won two Academy Awards: Best Foreign Language Film and Best Costume Design in black and white.
8½ won two Academy Awards at the ceremony held in 1964: Best Foreign Language Film, accepted on behalf of Italy, and Best Costume Design in the black-and-white category, awarded to Piero Gherardi. The film received five nominations in all.
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8½ is a 1963 Italian avant-garde comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Federico Fellini. ... An international co-production between France and Italy, the film was shot in black and white by cinematographer Gianni Di Venanzo and features a score by Nino Rota, with costume and set designs by Piero Gherardi.
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8½ is a 1963 Italian film directed by Federico Fellini, centered on a film director experiencing creative block while attempting to begin a new production, a subject drawn closely from Fellini's own circumstances at the time.
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8½ (Italian: Otto e mezzo [ˈɔtto e ˈmɛddzo]) is a 1963 Italian avant-garde comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Federico Fellini.
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8½ (Italian: Otto e mezzo [ˈɔtto e ˈmɛddzo]) is a 1963 Italian avant-garde comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Federico Fellini.
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8½ (Italian: Otto e mezzo [ˈɔtto e ˈmɛddzo]) is a 1963 Italian avant-garde comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Federico Fellini.
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