 During the last years of his life, De Baggis worked with the United Nations on their ground-breaking Ending Hunger campaign for which he shot and directed numerous commercials, PSAs, and informercials.de Baggis has won a Capitello d’oro, a Premio Chatwin e il Bellaria Film Festival.De Baggis was married to the Italian art and architectural restoration expert Grazia del Giudice with whom he had one son.