Trivia

Monicelli died on November 29, 2010 at the age of 95, after committing suicide by jumping from a window of the San Giovanni hospital in Rome, where he was admitted a few days earlier for prostate cancer.

He attended the University of Milan, where he studied history. While a student, he directed a 16mm feature film which won a prize at the 1935 Venice Film Festival.

His movies Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958), The Great War (1959) and The Girl with a Pistol (1968) were Oscar-nominate for "Best Foreign Language Film".

Has three daughters; Martina (b.1967), Ottavia (b.1974) and Rosa (b.1988).

Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1982.

Son of writer/production manager Tomaso Monicelli, brother of writers Franco Monicelli, Mino Monicelli and Furio Monicelli.

In Rome, Italy where an exhibit on his life's work will soon be presented in Cinecitta. (May 2009)

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 687-692. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.

His father Tomaso Monicelli was a novelist and an editor.

He visited Argentina as guest at Mar del Plata International Film Festival. (March 2007)

From 1978 until his death he was the partner of writer Chiara Rapaccini.