Best Costume Design, Black-and-White, Piero Gherardi , 1962 Academy Awards®

Golden Palm, Federico Fellini, 1960 Cannes Film Festival

Best Actor, Marcello Mastroianni, 1961 Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon Award

Best Original Story, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Federico Fellini, 1961 Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon Award

Best Production Design, Piero Gherardi, 1961 Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon Award

Best Foreign Language Film, Italy, 1961 New York Film Critics Circle Award

Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Black-and-White, Piero Gherardi, 1962 Academy Awards® Nominee

Best Director, Federico Fellini, 1962 Academy Awards® Nominee

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay, Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi, 1962 Academy Awards® Nominee

Best Film From Any Source, Federico Fellini, Italy/France, 1961 BAFTA Award Nominee

Best Soundtrack, Nino Rota, 1962 Grammy Award Nominee

Marcello is a journalist who writes for the society pages, covering events and personalities well-known in Via Veneto circles. His profession leads him to live a similar life to his subjects, indifferent, flighty and superficial. One day after having witnessed just how low life in these circles is and how supposedly happy a friend of his is with his family, he toys with the idea of marrying his long-standing girlfriend and settling down. But some time later he discovers that all was not what is seemed with his friend and once again throws himself into superficial society life. When he encounters a young woman by chance, it seems that she wants to tell him something, but try as he might, he fails to hear…