Dante Ferretti

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Dante Ferretti

Dante Ferretti (born February 26, 1943 in Macerata , Italy ) is an Italian production designer .

Life

He studied stage design and architecture at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. He gained his first film experience as an assistant to the architect Aldo Tomassini. In the early 1960s he became an assistant in the team of Luigi Scaccianoce , one of the most influential designers in Italian film. Eight years later he started to work independently.

Dante Ferretti has designed films for well-known directors such as Jean-Jacques Annaud , Federico Fellini , Pier Paolo Pasolini and Martin Scorsese . He has been working with his wife Francesca Lo Schiavo since the early 1980s : Ferretti takes over the management of the production design department, while his wife looks after the individual sets as a set decorator during the shoot.

Together they have been nominated nine times for an Oscar in the Best Production Design category since 1990 and won the Academy Award at the 2005 and 2012 Academy Awards for the production design for Martin Scorsese's Aviator and Hugo Cabret . Ferretti was also the only production designer to date to win the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award in the Best Production Design category twice (2002 and 2004) . In 2004 he received Festival Honors at the eDIT Filmmaker's Festival for his services to the art of film. In 2008 Ferretti received an Oscar for his production design for "Sweeney Todd"

Dante Ferretti about his work: “I try to put my thoughts and reflections into the period in question, to absorb it and to live the past that is at stake. Perhaps similar to what actors do, ... When I try to live an era, it is very important for me to also think about and incorporate many small 'mistakes' (note: broken, uncontrolled additions, ...) . ... I try to design sets that are living spaces. "

In 2007 he again designed the exterior facade of the Palazzo del Cinema for the 64th Venice International Film Festival .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ralph Eue, Gabriele Jatho (Ed.): Schauplätze, Drehorte, Spielräume - Production Design & Film , pp. 45f. Berlin 2005, Bertz + Fischer Verlag, ISBN 3-86505-162-6