Dante Ferretti
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.
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- 2021 · Fellini Forward as Self
- 2021 · Fellinopolis as Self - Production Designer
- 2017 · Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary as Self
- 2016 · The Isle of Medea as Self
- 2015 · Pasolini maestro corsaro as
- 2013 · Sur les traces de Fellini as
- 2012 · Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' as Self
- 2012 · Handmade Cinema as Se stesso
- 2010 · Dante Ferretti: Production Designer as Self
- 2010 · Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse as Self
- 2008 · Valentino: The Last Emperor as Self
- 2008 · The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen as Self - Production Designer
- 2005 · Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker as Self
- 2004 · Medea: On-Set Memories as
- 2003 · Fellini: I'm a Born Liar as Self - Chef décorateur
- 1998 · In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese as Self
- 1993 · Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence' as Self
- 1987 · La rosa dei nomi as Self
- 1986 · The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' as Self
- 1982 · Mora as Propriétaire
- 1970 · Ciao, Federico! as Self (uncredited)
- 1951 · Deutscher Filmpreis as Self