The Great Beauty (Italian: La grande bellezza) is a 2013 Italian film co-written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it was screened in competition for the Palme d'Or. Filming took place in Rome starting on 9 August 2012. It was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and at the 2013 Reykjavik European Film Festival. The film has been selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, and was nominated. It is a co-production between the Italian Medusa Film and Indigo Film and the French Babe Films, with support from Banca Popolare di Vicenza and Pathé.