While preparing '' Nights of Cabiria '' in spring 1956 , Fellini learned of his father ’s death by cardiac arrest at the age of sixty-two . Produced by Dino De Laurentiis and starring Giulietta Masina , the film took its inspiration from news reports of a woman ’s severed head retrieved in a lake and stories by Wanda , a shantytown prostitute Fellini met on the set of '' Il Bidone '' . Pier Paolo Pasolini was hired to translate Flaiano and Pinelli ’s dialogue into Roman dialect and to supervise researches in the vice-afflicted suburbs of Rome . The movie won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 30th Academy Awards and brought Masina the Best Actress Award at Cannes for her performance
30th Academy Awards
30th Academy Awards
Federico Fellini