Carlo Ponti's Long Journey..

Carlo Ponti: (December 11, 1912- January 10, 2007)

Carlo Ponti was an Italian film producer.
Born in Magenta, Italy, he began producing films in 1941, and accumulated over 140 production credits over his lifetime, among his films.

Ponti's second wife was

Sophia Loren. He died in Geneva, Switzerland and was survived by his son Carlo Ponti, Jr., a former child actor who is now a music conductor. Currently, Carlo Ponti, Jr. is the music director of the San Bernardino Symphony. He is also survived by his other sons Alessandro Ponti, a film producer, and Edoardo Ponti, a film director.
Ponti studied law at the University of Milan.

Films

1941: Sissignora (Poppioli); Piccolo mondo antico (Old-Fashioned World) (Soldati)
1942: Giacoma l'idealista (Lattuada)
1944: Due lettere anonime (Camerini)
1945: La freccia nel fianco (Lattuada)
1946: Un Americano in vacanza (A Yank in Rome) (Zampa); Vivere in Pace (To Live in Peace) (Zampa); La primula bianca (Bragaglia)
1947: I miserabili (Freda); Gioventù perduta (Lost Youth) (Germi)
1948: Senza pietà (Without Pity) (Lattuada)
1949: Il mulino del Po (The Mill on the Po) (Lattuada); Fuga in Francia (Soldati); Campane a martello (Children of Change) (Zampa); Quel bandito sono io! (Soldati); L'imperatore di Capri (Comencini)
1950: Cuori senza fontiere (The White Line) (Zampa); Totò cerca casa (Toto Wants a Home) (Steno and Monicelli); Vita di cani (Steno and Monicelli); E arrivato il cavaliere (Steno and Monicelli); Il brigante Musolini (Camerini)
1951: Sensualità (Fracassi)
1952: Europa '51 (Rossellini); Anna (Lattuada)
1953: Anni facili (Easy Years) (Zampa)
1954: Un giorno in pretura (A Day in Court) (Steno) (co-exec); Un Americano a Roma (Steno); La strada (Fellini); Ulisse (Ulysses) (Camerini)
1955: Attila flagello di dio (Attila the Hun) (Francisci); Ragazze d'oggi (Zampa); L'ultimo amante (De Benedetti); Mambo (Rossen); L'oro di Napoli (Gold of Naples) (De Sica); La donna del fiume (Soldati); La bella mugnaia (The Miller's Beautiful Daughter) (Camerini)
1956: War and Peace (K. Vidor); La risaia (Rice Girl) (Matarazzo); Il ferroviere (The Railroad Man) (Germi); La diciottenni (Mattòli); Peccato di castità (Franciolini); Guendalina (Lattuada); Le notti di Cabiria (Cabiria) (Fellini)
1957: Nata di marzo (Pietrangeli); Susanna tutta panna (Steno); Femmine tre volte (Steno); Marisa la civetta (Bolognini); Camping (Zeffirelli)
1959
The Black Orchid (Ritt); That Kind of Woman (Lumet)
1960: Heller in Pink Tights (Cukor); Lettere di una novizia (Rita) (Lattuada); La ciociara (Two Women) (De Sica); A Breath of Scandal (Olympia) (Curtiz)
1961: Lola (Demy); Une Femme est une femme (A Woman Is a Woman) (Godard)
1962: L'isola di Arturo (Arturo's Island) (Damiani); Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cleo from 5 to 7) (Varda) (co-exec); L'Oeil du malin (The Third Lover) (Chabrol); Boccaccio '79 (Fellini and others); I sequestri di Altona (The Condemned of Altona) (De Sica)
1963: Landru (Bluebeard) (Chabrol); Le Doulos (Doulos—the Finger Man) (Melville); Le Mépris (Contempt) (Godard);La noia (The Empty Canvas) (Damiani); Ieri, oggi, e domani (Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow) (De Sica); Les Carabiniers (Godard)
1964: Matrimonio all'italiana (Marriage Italian Style) (De Sica); La donna scimmia (The Ape Woman) (Ferreri)
1965: Operation Crossbow (Anderson); Casanova '70 (Monicelli); Doctor Zhivago (Lean); La decima vittima (The Tenth Victim) (Petri); Lady L (Ustinov); Oggi, domani, e dopodomani (De Filippo—English-language version Kiss the Other Sheik, additional scenes directed by Salce; section directed by Ferreri released as The Man with the Balloons)
1966: Blow-Up (Antonioni); Ostre sledované vlaky (Closely Watched Trains) (Menzel)
1967: La ragazze e il generale (The Girl and the General) (Festa Campanile); C'era una volta (More than a Miracle) (Rosi); Smashing Time (Davis); Questi fantasmi (Ghosts—Italian Style) (Castellani); La Vingt-cinquième Heure (The 25th Hour; La 25e Heure) (Verneuil); A Countess from Hong Kong (Chaplin)
1968: Gli amanti (A Place for Lovers) (De Sica); O Slavnosti a hostech (A Report on the Party and the Guests) (Nemec)
1969: I girasoli (Sunflower) (De Sica)
1970: Zabriskie Point (Antonioni)
1971: La moglie del prete (The Priest's Wife) (Risi); La mortadella (Lady Liberty) (Monicelli)
1972: Che? (What?) (Polanski); Rappresaglia (Massacre in Rome) (Cosmatos)
1973: Bianco, rosso, e . . . (White Sister) (Lattuada); I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale (Torso) (Martino); Il viaggio (The Voyage) (De Sica)
1974: Le Testament (Jury of One; The Verdict) (Cayatte); Brief Encounter (Bridges); Poopsie (Gun Moll) (Capitani); Carne per Frankenstein (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein) (Morrissey); Dracula cerca sangue di vergine e . . . mori di sete!!! (Andy Warhol's Dracula) (Morrissey and Dawson)
1975: L'infermiera (The Nurse; I Will If You Will) (Rossati); Professione: Reporter (The Passenger) (Antonioni); Le Baby-Sitter (Wanted: Babysitter) (Clément)
1976: Brutti, sporchi, cattivi (Down and Dirty) (Scola)
1977: The Cassandra Crossing (Cosmatos); Una giornata particolare (A Special Day) (Scola)
1989: Running Away; Sabato, Domenica e Lunedi (Saturday, Sunday and Monday) (Wertmüller)
1991: Oscar (Landis)
1998: Liv (Edoardo Ponti)

Awards
National Society of Film Critics Award Best Picture "Blow-Up" 1966
Golden Globe Award Best Motion Picture-Drama "Doctor Zhivago" 1965
Golden Globe Samuel Goldwyn International Award "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" 1963
Golden Globe Award Best Foreign Language Foreign Film "Two Women" 1961

Milestones
1989 First film produced after legal difficulties, "Running Away'
1979 Fined by Italian court the equivelent of 25 million dollars and sentenced to a four year term in absentia for muggling art and currency
1965 Produces epic film "Dr. Zhivago"
1964 Obtains French citizenship
1958 First American producing credit, "The Black Orchid"
1957 Dissolves partneship with De Laurentiis and marries Sophia Loren
1954 Produces Fellini's "La Strada"
1950 Begins producing partnership with Dino De Laurentiis
1942 First feature producing credit, "Piccolo Mondo Antico/Old-Fashioned World"