Dante Ferretti
Italian production designer
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- Dante Ferretti ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈdante ferˈretti] ; born 26 February 1943) is an Italian production designer, art director, and costume designer.
- He frequently collaborates with his wife, set decorator Francesca Lo Schiavo.
- He also had a five-film collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini and later developed a very close professional relationship with Martin Scorsese, designing nine of his films.
- Ferretti has won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction: The Aviator , Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street , and Hugo .
- In addition, he was nominated for Best Costume Design for Kundun .
Dante Ferretti (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdante ferˈretti]; born 26 February 1943) is an Italian production designer, art director, and costume designer.
Biography
Throughout his career, Ferretti has worked with many acclaimed directors, both American and Italian, including Pier Paolo Pasolini, Elio Petri, Federico Fellini, Liliana Cavani, Terry Gilliam, Franco Zeffirelli, Martin Scorsese, 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-film collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini and later developed a very close professional relationship with Martin Scorsese, designing nine of his films.
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 has won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction: The Aviator, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Hugo. He had seven previous nominations. In addition, he was nominated for Best Costume Design for Kundun. He has also won three BAFTA Awards.
In 2012, he designed the decor for Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto, a restaurant on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
For the 2015 Expo held in Milan, Italy Ferretti was commissioned to do a series of statues articulating the concept "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life".
Other activities and roles
Ferretti is a member of the Italy-USA Foundation.
As of 2023, he is a vice-president on the board of the Ischia Global Film & Music Festival, an international film festival held on the Italian island of Ischia.
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