Renowned Italian director Francesco Rosi has died aged 92.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rosi passed away in Rome on Saturday (January 2) after suffering from a severe case of bronchitis.
The Naples-born director was famed for his neo-realist style of filmmaking in the 1960s and '70s which inspired the likes of Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.
Rosi won the Silver Bear for best director in 1962 in Berlin for the film Salvatore Giuliano, and took home the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1963 for Hands Over the City, while in 1972 he won the Palme d'Or in Cannes for The Mattei Affair.
Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino said of Rosi: "There are directors, and they are few and far between, who are capable of constructing worlds, and they do it by the invention of methods and styles. Rosi was one of the very few."
Rosi's directed his last film, The Truce, in 1997 which saw John Turturro star as Primo Levi.
In 2008 he was honoured with a Golden Bear for lifetime achievement at the Berlin International Film Festival, and in 2012 he received a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
