 In the 1960s, Germi received worldwide success with the films "Divorce Italian Style", "Seduced and Abandoned", and "The Birds, the Bees and the Italians".He was nominated for Academy Awards in both directing and writing for "Divorce Italian Style", and, subsequently, won in the writing category.He also won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for "The Birds, the Bees and the Italians".