Dante Ferretti

Dante Ferretti
Dante Ferretti in his workshop
Occupation	Production designer
Years active	1964 –
Spouse	Francesca Lo Schiavo
Awards	LAFCA Award for Best Production Design 2002 Gangs of New York 2004 The Aviator Satellite Award for Best Art Direction 2002 Gangs of New York David di Donatello for Best Art Direction 1983 La Nuit de Varennes 1984 And the Ship Sails On 1987 The Name of the Rose 1990 The Voice of the Moon

Dante Ferretti (born February 26, 1943) is an Italian Academy Award-winning 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, Anthony Minghella, and Tim Burton.

Ferretti has developed a very close professional relationship with Martin Scorsese, designing seven of his last eight movies. In the past he had two other long collaborations with Pier Paolo Pasolini and Federico Fellini, both with five 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 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 film)|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)
• La Nuit de 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
• 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)

External links

• Dante Ferretti at IMDb