Mario Nuzzolese OMRI (10 December 1915 – 21 October 2008), was an Italian Lieutenant Colonel, teacher, journalist and film critic.
In 1942 he was sent with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel to defend the Italian trenches during World War II in the Africa Campaign on the El Alamein front, recruited by the Military Intelligence commanded by the Major Paolo Caccia Dominioni.
In 1945 he started projecting silent movies in a little room of the School Balilla in Bari, allowing his students to explore the educational power of videos with his first censures.
In 1980 he was awarded by the former President of the Council of Ministers, Francesco Cossiga, with the title of Commendatore della Repubblica and different times by the AGIS Association with several medals of honours for his loyalty, fidelity and positive results.
He wrote several articles and film criticisms for the newspapers Corriere della Sera, Repubblica and Giornale dello Spettacolo; and socially divulged the essay cinema culture in television format.