The restoration of the 1960 classic movie, which starred Anita Ekberg, was made possible by Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation, to which the HFPA has contributed nearly two million dollars.

 

The work to clean the movie’s original widescreen negative took more than 8000 hours.

 

“In my mind, there is a before and after La dolce vita,” said Scorsese, praising the film for achieving “a moral intensity, an intelligence and a maturity” that was unprecedented at that point in commercial movies.