
Dante Ferretti
- Date of Birth: 1943-02-26
- Place of Birth: 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. Throug... 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.

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Documentary • 2003 April

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
Documentary • 2012 February

Deutscher Filmpreis
Reality • 1951 January

La rosa dei nomi
Documentary • 1987 January

Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
Documentary • 1993 September

The Isle of Medea
Documentary • 2016 August

Mora
Crime, Drama • 1982 December

Medea: On-Set Memories
Documentary • 2004 December

Handmade Cinema
Documentary • 2012 February

Pasolini maestro corsaro
• 2015 January