Dante Ferretti

Dante Ferretti
Dante Ferretti in his workshop
Born	(1943-02-26) 26 February 1943 Macerata, Marche, Italy
Occupation	Production designer
Years active	1964-present
Spouse(s)	Francesca Lo Schiavo

Dante Ferretti (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".

Filmography

• Medea (1969)
• Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente (1971)
• The Canterbury Tales (1972)
• Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina (1972)
• Storie scellerate (1973)
• Somewhere Beyond Love (1974)
• Il fiore delle mille e una notte (1974)
• Mio Dio come sono caduta in basso! (1974)
• Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
• Todo modo (1976)
• La presidentessa (1977)
• Il mostro (1977)
• Casotto (1977)
• Il gatto (1977)
• Eutanasia di un amore (1978)
• Bye Bye Monkey (1978)
• Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)
• City of Women (1980)
• Il minestrone (1981)
• The Skin (1981)
• Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981)
• That Night in Varennes (1982)
• Beyond the Door (1982)
• And the Ship Sales On (1983)
• Pianoforte (1984)
• Le bon roi Dagobert (1984)
• Il futuro è donna (1984)
• Ginger and Fred (1986)
• The Name of the Rose (1986)
• Il segreto del Sahara (1988) TV miniseries
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
• Lo zio indegno (1989)
• The Voice of the Moon (1990)
• Dr. M (1990)
• Hamlet (1990)
• La traviata (1992) TV
• Dracula (1992)
• The Age of Innocence (1993)
• Interview with the Vampire (1994)
• Casino (1995)
• Cavalleria rusticana (1996) TV
• Kundun (1997)
• Manon Lescaut (1998) TV
• Meet Joe Black (1998)
• Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
• Titus (1999)
• Un ballo in maschera (2001) TV
• Il trovatore (2002) TV
• Gangs of New York (2002)
• Cold Mountain (2003)
• The Aviator (2004)
• The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha (2005)
• The Black Dahlia (2006)
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
• Shutter Island (2010)
• Hugo (2011)
• Cinderella (2015)
• Seventh Son (2015)

External links

• Dante Ferretti at the Internet Movie Database