Raymond De Felitta was nominated in 1990 for an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film at the 63rd Academy Awards for his AFI thesis short, Bronx Cheers. In 1995, he wrote and directed Café Society starring Frank Whaley, Peter Gallagher and Lara Flynn Boyle, which premiered in the Director's Fortnight section at Cannes.
In 2000, De Felitta wrote and directed the indie film Two Family House (Lionsgate), which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival along with an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Screenplay. In 2003 he directed Paul Reiser's The Thing About My Folks (Picture House), which received the Audience Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
In 2006, he directed his first documentary, 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris (Outsider Pictures), which premiered at Sundance and won the Best Jazz Documentary at the Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee. In 2009, De Felitta wrote and directed the independent hit City Island (Anchor Bay), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, winning the Audience Award and opening in theaters nationwide to critical acclaim.
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