Federico Fellini was a director whose movies merged fantasy and reality. He was considered "the most surreal of Italian directors."Bright Lights Film Journal: Chatting About Other Things - An Interview with Federico Fellini (1999)

Fellini's career began as a cartoonist.The Italian Almanac: Italian News He also wrote radio comedy before turning to film.

"All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography." — Federico FelliniThinkExist.com: Federico Fellini Quotes

"What's important are not the prisms, though they are arresting, but the world he shows us: a place whose spectacularly grand, studio-built artificiality makes us see the interior truth of what is taken to be the 'real' world outside, which is a circus." — Vincent Canby, New York Times film critic, 1985The New York Times: 'Federico Fellini, Film Visionary, Is Dead at 73' (November 1, 1993)

"When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day, out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up, but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised." — Federico FelliniThe New York Times: 'Federico Fellini, Film Visionary, Is Dead at 73' (November 1, 1993)

1. Wikipedia: Federico Fellini

2. Fan Site: Don Young Felliniana Archive

3. Bright Lights Film Journal: An Interview with Federico Fellini (1999)

4. The New York Times: 'Federico Fellini, Film Visionary, Is Dead at 73' (November 1, 1993)

5. Gerald Peary: 'Fellini: I'm A Born Liar' (September, 2003)

6. Good Writes: From an Interview by Toni Maraini (1990)

7. Roger Ebert: 8 1/2 in Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" Series

8. YouTube Video: Federico Fellini (Time: 7:00)

• 1920: Born on January 20

• 1938: Moves to Florence

• 1939: Enrolls in law school in Rome to avoid being drafted

• 1939: Works for the newspaper Il Popolo di Roma and the magazine Marc' Aurelio

• 1943: Meets and marries Giulietta Masina

• 1953: Directs first solo film — Lo Sceicco Bianco (The White Sheik)

• 1970: Appears for the first time in one of his films - The Clowns

• 1990: Completes final film — La Voce Della Luna (Voices of the Moon)

• 1993 Federico Fellini dies of a heart attack on October 31.

• Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• 1950: Luci del varieta (Variety Lights)

• 1952: Lo Sceicco bianco (The White Sheik)

• 1954: La Strada (The Road) | Won the Silver Lion for La Strada

• 1957: Le Notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria)

• 1958: Blue Ribbon Award - Best Foreign Language Film for: La Strada

• 1960: La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life) | Palme d'Or ("Golden Palm") Award for La Dolce Vita

• 1963: 8 1/2

• 1967: KCFCC Award for Giulietta Degli Spiriti

• 1972: Roma

• 1973: Amarcord (I Remember)

• 1974: NYFCC Award for Amarcord

• 1976: Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (Fellini's Casanova)

• 1978: BAFTA Foreign Film Award for Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (Fellini's Casanova)

• 1980: La Citta Delle Donne (City of Women)

• 1987: Intervista | Awarded 'Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Meri