Dante Ferretti
Encyclopedia
Dante Ferretti is an Italian
production designer
, art director and costume designer
for film
s.
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. 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.
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
production designer
Production designer
In film and television, a production designer is the person responsible for the overall look of a filmed event such as films, TV programs, music videos or adverts. Production designers have one of the key creative roles in the creation of motion pictures and television. Working directly with the...
, art director and costume designer
Costume Designer
A costume designer or costume mistress/master is a person whose responsibility is to design costumes for a film or stage production. He or she is considered an important part of the "production team", working alongside the director, scenic and lighting designers as well as the sound designer. The...
for film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
s.
In his career, Ferretti has worked with many great directors, both American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure...
, Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...
, Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam
Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several films, including Brazil , The Adventures of Baron Munchausen , The Fisher King , and 12 Monkeys...
, Franco Zeffirelli
Franco Zeffirelli
Franco Zeffirelli KBE is an Italian director and producer of films and television. He is also a director and designer of operas and a former senator for the Italian center-right Forza Italia party....
, Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...
, Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...
, Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella, CBE was an English film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007....
, and Tim Burton
Tim Burton
Timothy William "Tim" Burton is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist. He is famous for dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet...
. He frequently collaborates with his wife, set decorator Francesca Lo Schiavo
Francesca Lo Schiavo
Francesca Lo Schiavo is an Italian set decorator.She has been nominated for an Academy Award seven times, winning twice, and is married to Dante Ferretti, a fellow art director...
.
Ferretti was a protégé of Federico Fellini, and worked under him for five films. 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
Howard Shore
Howard Leslie Shore is a Canadian composer, notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, for which he won three Academy Awards. He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg,...
's opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
The Fly
The Fly (opera)
The Fly is an opera in two acts by Canadian composer Howard Shore to a libretto by David Henry Hwang. It was commissioned by the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, where it premiered on 2 July 2008, and by Edgar Baitzel, then director of the Los Angeles Opera, where the opera was first performed on 7...
, directed by David Cronenberg
David Cronenberg
David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...
, at the Théâtre du Châtelet
Théâtre du Châtelet
The Théâtre du Châtelet is a theatre and opera house, located in the place du Châtelet in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.One of two theatres built on the site of a châtelet, a small castle or fortress, it was designed by Gabriel Davioud at the request of Baron Haussmann between 1860 and...
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
Academy Award for Costume Design
The Academy Award for Best Costume Design is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievement in film costume design....
for Kundun
Kundun
Kundun is a 1997 epic biographical film written by Melissa Mathison and directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the life and writings of the 14th Dalai Lama, the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet...
. He has also won three BAFTA Awards.
Filmography
- Medea (1969)
- Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente (1971)
- The Canterbury TalesThe Canterbury Tales (film)The Canterbury Tales is a 1972 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and based on the medieval narrative poem The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It is the second film in Pasolini's 'Trilogy of Life'...
(1972) - Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina (1972)
- Storie scellerate (1973)
- Somewhere Beyond LoveSomewhere Beyond LoveSomewhere Beyond Love is a 1974 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Comencini. It was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Giuliano Gemma - Nullo Branzi* Stefania Sandrelli - Carmela Santoro* Brizio Montinaro - Pasquale* Renato Scarpa...
(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 modoTodo modo-Cast:* Gian Maria Volonté - M.* Marcello Mastroianni - Don Gaetano* Mariangela Melato - Giacinta, Moglie di M.* Ciccio Ingrassia - Voltrano* Franco Citti - Autista di M.* Tino Scotti - Il Cuoco* Renato Salvatori - Dr. Scalambri* Michel Piccoli - Lui...
(1976) - La presidentessa (1977)
- Il mostroIl mostro (1977 film)Il mostro is a 1977 Italian thriller film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Johnny Dorelli.-Cast:* Johnny Dorelli* Sydne Rome* Renzo Palmer* Yves Beneyton* Enzo Santaniello* Henning Schlüter* Renato Scarpa* Gianrico Tedeschi* Orazio Orlando...
(1977) - Casotto (1977)
- Il gatto (1977)
- Eutanasia di un amore (1978)
- Bye Bye MonkeyBye Bye MonkeyBye Bye Monkey is a 1978 film, directed by Marco Ferreri and starring Gérard Depardieu, Marcello Mastroianni, James Coco and Geraldine Fitzgerald. It is about a man who brings King Kong's orphaned son to the city to raise it. It was filmed in English and shot in Long Island, New York...
(1978) - Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)
- City of WomenCity of WomenCity of Women is a 1980 film written and directed by Federico Fellini. Amid Fellini's characteristic combination of dreamlike, outrageous, and artistic imagery, Marcello Mastroianni plays Snàporaz, a man who voyages through male and female spaces toward a confrontation with his own attitudes...
(1980) - Il minestrone (1981)
- The Skin (1981)
- Tales of Ordinary MadnessTales of Ordinary MadnessTales of Ordinary Madness is a 1981 film by Italian director Marco Ferreri. It was shot in English in the USA, featuring Ben Gazzara and Ornella Muti in the leading roles...
(1981) - That Night in VarennesThat Night in VarennesThat Night in Varennes is a 1982 bilingual, Italian and French drama film directed by Ettore Scola. It is based on a novel by Catherine Rihoit. It tells the story of a fictional meeting between Restif de la Bretonne, Giacomo Casanova, Thomas Paine and Sophie de la Borde...
(1982) - Beyond the DoorBeyond the Door (1982 film)-Cast:* Marcello Mastroianni - Enrico Sommi* Eleonora Giorgi - Nina* Tom Berenger - Matthew Jackson* Michel Piccoli - Mr. Mutti* Paolo Bonetti* Maria Sofia Amendolea - Secretary* Enrico Bergier* Marcia Briscoe - Nina's Friend...
(1982) - And the Ship Sales On (1983)
- Pianoforte (1984)
- Le bon roi DagobertLe bon roi Dagobert (1984 film)Le Bon Roi Dagobert is a 1984 French-Italian film directed by Dino Risi.-Cast and roles:* Coluche - Dagobert I* Michel Serrault - Otarius* Ugo Tognazzi - Pope Honorius and his look-alike* Carole Bouquet - Héméré...
(1984) - Il futuro è donna (1984)
- Ginger and FredGinger and FredGinger and Fred is a 1986 comedy/drama film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina.The title is a reference to the American dancing couple Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers...
(1986) - The Name of the RoseThe Name of the Rose (film)The Name of the Rose is a 1986 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on the book of the same name by Umberto Eco. Sean Connery is the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and Christian Slater is his apprentice Adso of Melk, who are called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval...
(1986) - Il segreto del Sahara (1988) TV miniseries
- The Adventures of Baron MunchausenThe Adventures of Baron MunchausenThe Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 British adventure comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, and Robin Williams.-Plot:...
(1988) - Lo zio indegno (1989)
- The Voice of the Moon (1990)
- Dr. M (1990)
- HamletHamlet (1990 film)Hamlet is a 1990 drama film based on the Shakespearean tragedy Hamlet. It was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, with Mel Gibson as the young Prince Hamlet...
(1990) - La traviata (1992) TV
- Dracula (1992)
- The Age of InnocenceThe Age of Innocence (film)The Age of Innocence is a 1993 American film adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel of the same name. The film was released by Columbia Pictures, directed by Martin Scorsese, and stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder....
(1993) - Interview with the VampireInterview with the Vampire: The Vampire ChroniclesInterview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles is a 1994 American drama and horror film directed by Neil Jordan, based on the 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. The film focuses on Lestat and Louis, beginning with Louis' transformation into a vampire by Lestat in 1791...
(1994) - CasinoCasino (film)Casino is a 1995 crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese...
(1995) - Cavalleria rusticana (1996) TV
- KundunKundunKundun is a 1997 epic biographical film written by Melissa Mathison and directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the life and writings of the 14th Dalai Lama, the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet...
(1997) - Manon Lescaut (1998) TV
- Meet Joe BlackMeet Joe BlackMeet Joe Black is a 1998 American fantasy romance film produced by Universal Studios, directed by Martin Brest and starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Claire Forlani, loosely based on the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday...
(1998) - Bringing Out the DeadBringing Out the DeadBringing Out the Dead is a 1999 drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, and based on the novel by Joe Connelly with the screenplay by Paul Schrader...
(1999) - TitusTitus (film)Titus is a 1999 film adaptation of Shakespeare's revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus, about the downfall of a Roman general. It was the first film of the play . The film was made by Overseas Filmgroup and Clear Blue Sky Productions and released by Fox Searchlight Pictures...
(1999) - Un ballo in maschera (2001) TV
- Il trovatore (2002) TV
- Gangs of New YorkGangs of New YorkGangs of New York is a 2002 historical film set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points district of New York City. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan. The film was inspired by Herbert Asbury's 1928 nonfiction book, The Gangs of New...
(2002) - Cold MountainCold Mountain (film)Cold Mountain is a 2003 war drama film written and directed by Anthony Minghella. The film is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Charles Frazier...
(2003) - The Aviator (2004)
- The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-HaThe Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-HaThe Fine Art of Love is a 2006 film directed by John Irvin. The film, starring Jacqueline Bisset, Hannah Taylor-Gordon and Mary Nighy, is based on Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls by the German playwright Frank Wedekind. It received its premiere at the 2005 Venice Film...
(2005) - The Black DahliaThe Black Dahlia (film)The Black Dahlia is a 2006 neo noir crime film directed by Brian De Palma. It is based on the novel of the same name by James Ellroy, writer of L.A. Confidential and starred Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank. The story is based on the murder of Elizabeth Short...
(2006) - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
- Shutter Island (2010)