Dante Ferretti
- Art direction
- February 26, 1943 · Macerata, Marche, Italy
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dante Ferretti (Italian pronunciation: [ˌdante ferˈretti], born 26 February 1943) is an Italian production designer, art director and costume designer. Throughout his career, Ferretti has worked with many great directors, both American and Italian, including 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-film 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 has won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction; for 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". He is member of the Italy-USA Foundation.
Known for
Filmography
- Quelli che il cinema · Self
- Juliet & Romeo · Production Design
- Werther · Director, Costume Designer
- In Between Stars and Scars: Masters of Cinema · Self
- Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master · Self
- An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose · Self
- Fellini Forward · Self
- Fellinopolis · Self
- Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary · Self
- Silence · Production Design, Costume Design
- The Isle of Medea · Self
- Cinderella · Production Design
- Pasolini maestro corsaro
- Seventh Son · Production Design
- Sur les traces de Fellini
- Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' · Self
- Aida · Set Designer
- Handmade Cinema · Se stesso
- Hugo · Production Design
- Dante Ferretti: Production Designer · Self
- Shutter Island · Production Design
- Valentino: The Last Emperor · Self
- The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen · Self
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street · Production Design
- The Black Dahlia · Production Design
- The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha · Production Design
- Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker · Self
- Medea: On-Set Memories
- The Aviator · Production Design
- Cold Mountain · Production Design
- Fellini: I'm a Born Liar · Self
- Gangs of New York · Production Design
- Titus · Production Design
- Bringing Out the Dead · Production Design
- Meet Joe Black · Production Design
- In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese · Self
- Kundun · Production Design, Costume Design
- Casino · Production Design
- Interview with the Vampire · Production Design
- The Age of Innocence · Production Design
- Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence' · Self
- Hamlet · Production Design
- Dr. M · Production Design
- The Voice of the Moon · Production Design
- The Sleazy Uncle · Production Design
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen · Production Design
- The Secret of the Sahara · Production Design
- La rosa dei nomi · Self
- The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' · Self
- The Name of the Rose · Production Design
- Ginger and Fred · Production Design
- Pianoforte · Production Design
- The Future Is Woman · Production Design
- Good King Dagobert · Production Design
- And the Ship Sails On · Production Design
- Mora · Propriétaire
- Beyond the Door · Production Design, Art Direction
- That Night of Varennes · Production Design
- Tales of Ordinary Madness · Production Design
- The Skin · Production Design
- The Soup · Production Design
- City of Women · Production Design
- Orchestra Rehearsal · Production Design
- Break Up · Production Design
- Bye Bye Monkey · Production Design
- The Cat · Production Design
- La Presidentessa · Production Design
- Beach House · Production Design
- The Monster · Production Design
- One Way or Another · Production Design
- Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom · Production Design
- Till Marriage Do Us Part · Costume Design, Production Design
- Arabian Nights · Production Design
- Somewhere Beyond Love · Production Design
- Bawdy Tales · Production Design
- Slap the Monster on Page One · Production Design
- The Canterbury Tales · Production Design
- The Working Class Goes to Heaven · Production Design
- The Decameron · Art Direction
- I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear · Production Design