Dante Ferretti

Known for ArtBorn 1943-02-26 (age 83)Macerata, Marche, Italy

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. Read more

Movies & web series

Soldier's Girl

Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master

Shutter Island

Casino

The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary

The Working Class Goes to Heaven

The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'

One Way or Another

The Name of the Rose

Slap the Monster on Page One

Meet Joe Black

Gangs of New York

Interview with the Vampire

In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese

Hugo

Silence

The Aviator

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

The Girl from Parma

The Treasure of San Gennaro

Mora

The Gospel According to St. Matthew

And the Ship Sails On

Cinderella

Cold Mountain

Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'

The Age of Innocence

The Hawks and the Sparrows

Ciao, Federico!

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Soup

Don Camillo in Moscow

Kundun

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

City of Women

Ginger and Fred

That Night of Varennes

I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear

The Voyeur

La rosa dei nomi

Valentino: The Last Emperor

The Voice of the Moon

Bringing Out the Dead

The Decameron

The Oscars

Hamlet

The Secret of the Sahara