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1* AwardSnub: It was nominated for four UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s and won for Best Costume Design, but it wasn't up for either Best Picture or Best Foreign Language Film.
2* BestKnownForTheFanservice: More than half the cast are a bunch of beauty icons and sex symbols who men lusted for at the time of release.
3** In particular it is famed for being Anita Ekberg's most iconic role for a reason. The fountain scene with her...
4* OnceOriginalNowCommon: This is a film where the "hero" is an amoral CasanovaWannabe journalist type who hangs around lots of decadent celebrity parties and [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand can't get no satisfaction]]. Precisely what made it seem so racy and different in 1960, and so long and ordinary now.
5* SignatureScene: The Jesus statue being carried by helicopter, Mastroianni and Ekberg embracing in the Trevi fountain.
6* TearJerker: Marcello watching [[spoiler:his dead friend and children]].

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