Carlo Ponti

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Carlo Ponti OMRI
Ponti in 1951
Born	Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti (1912-12-11)11 December 1912 Magenta, Lombardy, Kingdom of Italy
Died	10 January 2007(2007-01-10) (aged 94) Geneva, Switzerland
Alma mater	University of Milan
Spouses	Giuliana Fiastri ​ ​ (m. 1946; div. 1965)​ Sophia Loren ​ ​ (m. 1957; ann. 1962)​ ​ ​ (m. 1966)​
Children	4; including Carlo Jr. and Edoardo
Honours	Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1st Class)

Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. 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,^[1] 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 such as Agnès Varda and David Lean. 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 appointed as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.^[2]