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In 1957, Vittorio De Sica received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Major Alessandro Rinaldi in Charles Vidor's war romance "A Farewell to Arms," an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 novel of the same name. The film, set during World War I, follows an American ambulance driver's tragic love affair with an English nurse amidst the backdrop of the Italian front.