Nanni Moretti
Director
Italian director whose work included Dear Diary and The Son's Room, the latter of which won the Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
He was a water polo player who broke into the film business as a producer.
He was a noted leftist who organized street protests against the government of Silvio Berlusconi.
His brother was literary scholar Franco Moretti.
He and Days of Heaven director Terrence Malick both won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival.