Scatola del Tempo, the prestigious Italian company and creator of rotating watch holders, has awarded the producer Dino De Laurentiis for his long and successful career.Dino De Laurentiis, born at Torre Annunziata in the province of Naples in 1919, left home at 17, determined to be a director, and produced his first film, “L'Amore Canta”, before his 21st birthday. Since then, he produced many prestigious Italian films including movies by Federico Fellini in collaboration with Carlo Ponti, before moving to the US.

An extraordinary icon of Italian cinema, Dino De Laurentiis has either financed, produced or distributed over 600 movies and with the new millennium and his seventh decade in the industry, he has shown no inclination of stopping.During his long career De Laurentiis made a number of successful and acclaimed films, including Fellini's "La Strada", and, among others, "Le notti di Cabiria”, "War and Peace”,  "Body of Evidence",  "Unforgettable", "Breakdown", “Serpico”, “Three Days of the Condor”, “The Serpent's Egg”, “Ragtime”. De Laurentiis won two Oscar with "La Strada", and  "Le notti di Cabiria”,  and in 2001 he received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.