- Dante Ferretti
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Dante Ferretti 
Dante Ferretti in his workshopBorn February 26, 1943
Macerata, Marche, ItalyOccupation Production designer Years active 1964 – Spouse Francesca Lo Schiavo Dante Ferretti (born February 26, 1943) is an Italian production designer, art director and costume designer for films.
In his career, Ferretti has worked with many great directors, both American and Italian, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Franco Zeffirelli, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Anthony Minghella, and Tim Burton. He frequently collaborates with his wife, set decorator Francesca Lo Schiavo.
Ferretti was a protégé of Federico Fellini, and worked under him for five films.[1] He also had a five collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini and later developed a very close professional relationship with Martin Scorsese, designing seven of his last eight movies.
In 2008, he designed the set for Howard Shore's opera The Fly, directed by David Cronenberg, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.
Ferretti won two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction for The Aviator and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. He had seven previous nominations. In addition, he was nominated for Best Costume Design for Kundun. He has also won three BAFTA Awards.
Filmography
- Medea (1969)
- Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente (1971)
- The Canterbury Tales (1972)
- Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina (1972)
- Storie scellerate (1973)
- Somewhere Beyond Love (1974)
- Il fiore delle mille e una notte (1974)
- Mio Dio come sono caduta in basso! (1974)
- Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
- Todo modo (1976)
- La presidentessa (1977)
- Il mostro (1977)
- Casotto (1977)
- Il gatto (1977)
- Eutanasia di un amore (1978)
- Bye Bye Monkey (1978)
- Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)
- City of Women (1980)
- Il minestrone (1981)
- The Skin (1981)
- Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981)
- That Night in Varennes (1982)
- Beyond the Door (1982)
- And the Ship Sales On (1983)
- Pianoforte (1984)
- Le bon roi Dagobert (1984)
- Il futuro è donna (1984)
- Ginger and Fred (1986)
- The Name of the Rose (1986)
- Il segreto del Sahara (1988) TV miniseries
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
- Lo zio indegno (1989)
- The Voice of the Moon (1990)
- Dr. M (1990)
- Hamlet (1990)
- La traviata (1992) TV
- Dracula (1992)
- The Age of Innocence (1993)
- Interview with the Vampire (1994)
- Casino (1995)
- Cavalleria rusticana (1996) TV
- Kundun (1997)
- Manon Lescaut (1998) TV
- Meet Joe Black (1998)
- Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
- Titus (1999)
- Un ballo in maschera (2001) TV
- Il trovatore (2002) TV
- Gangs of New York (2002)
- Cold Mountain (2003)
- The Aviator (2004)
- The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha (2005)
- The Black Dahlia (2006)
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
- Shutter Island (2010)
References
- ^ Fergus M. Bordewich, Manhattan Mayhem, Smithsonian Magazine, December 2002, Accessed July 15, 2010.
External links
Academy Award for Art Direction (2001–2020) 2001: Catherine Martin (art); Brigitte Broch (set) • 2002: John Myhre (art); Gordon Sim (set) • 2003: Grant Major (art); Dan Hennah and Alan Lee (set) • 2004: Dante Ferretti (art); Francesca Lo Schiavo (set) • 2005: John Myhre (art); Gretchen Rau (set; posthumous award) • 2006: Eugenio Caballero (art); Pilar Revuelta (set) • 2007: Dante Ferretti (art); Francesca Lo Schiavo (set) • 2008: Donald Graham Burt (art) and Victor J. Zolfo (set) • 2009: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg (art), Kim Sinclair (set) • 2010: Robert Stromberg (art) and Karen O'Hara (set)
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