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De Sica became famous world-wide for his 1945 film ''Shoeshine''. This drama about two shoeshine boys who dream of owning a horse won a special honorary Academy Award, which was later retroactively considered the first UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm. Three years later he had an even bigger success with ''Bicycle Thieves'' (aka ''The Bicycle Thief''), about a father who desperately searches for the stolen bicycle he needs for his job. It also won an honorary Academy Award. This became one of the most famous and influential films of its day, seen as the TropeCodifier for Italian neorealism, featuring non-actors in leading roles, shooting on location, and telling a SliceOfLife story with very little of Hollywood or melodramatic conventions. Ironically, it was an inspiration for independent film-makers even if it was actually the most expensive Italian film made at that time, and partially funded by Hollywood studios (shooting on location was far far more expensive than it was to shoot on sets in that time).
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De Sica became famous world-wide for his 1945 film ''Shoeshine''. This drama about two shoeshine boys who dream of owning a horse won a special honorary Academy Award, which was later retroactively considered the first UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm.MediaNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm. Three years later he had an even bigger success with ''Bicycle Thieves'' (aka ''The Bicycle Thief''), about a father who desperately searches for the stolen bicycle he needs for his job. It also won an honorary Academy Award. This became one of the most famous and influential films of its day, seen as the TropeCodifier for Italian neorealism, featuring non-actors in leading roles, shooting on location, and telling a SliceOfLife story with very little of Hollywood or melodramatic conventions. Ironically, it was an inspiration for independent film-makers even if it was actually the most expensive Italian film made at that time, and partially funded by Hollywood studios (shooting on location was far far more expensive than it was to shoot on sets in that time).
