Bruno Cesari

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Bruno Cesari (born October 24, 1933 in Pesaro , Province of Pesaro and Urbino , Italy ; † January 30, 2004 ibid) was an Italian art director and production designer who won an Oscar for best production design .

Life

Desideri began his work as an art director and production designer in the film industry in 1963 for the film Zorro, the man with two faces (Il segno di Zorro) and worked on the production of around fifty films up to 2002.

In 1982 he was nominated for an Emmy together with Luciano Ricceri for the art direction in the second part of the television series Marco Polo (1982) produced by the NBC . The film adaptation of the life of Marco Polo was made by Giuliano Montaldo with Ken Marshall , Denholm Elliott and Tony Vogel in the leading roles .

At the Academy Awards in 1988 he won the Oscar for best production design together with Ferdinando Scarfiotti and Osvaldo Desideri in the film The Last Emperor (1987), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci , with John Lone , Joan Chen and Peter O'Toole in the leading roles. He, Scarfiotti and Desideri also won the David di Donatello in 1988 for production design .

2000 he was with Roy Walker for an Oscar for Best Production Design for after the novel by Patricia Highsmith resulting film The Talented Mr. Ripley nominated (1999), that of Anthony Minghella with Matt Damon , Gwyneth Paltrow and Jew Law was staged . He was also nominated for the production design in this film for the Silver Ribbon , the Nastro d'Argento des Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani (SNGCI).

In 2000 he was also nominated with Francesco Frigeri for the Golden Satellite Award for the best production design in The Legend of the Ocean Pianist (1999) by Giuseppe Tornatore with Tim Roth , Pruitt Taylor Vince and Mélanie Thierry . In 2001 he was nominated again for the Nastro d'Argento, namely for Die Ahnungslosen (2000) by Ferzan Özpetek with Margherita Buy , Stefano Accorsi and Serra Yilmaz .

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SURNAME Cesari, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian art director and production designer
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Pesaro , Province of Pesaro and Urbino , Italy
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2004
Place of death Pesaro , Province of Pesaro and Urbino , Italy