Bruno Cesari

Bruno Cesari ( born October 24, 1933, Pesaro, Pesaro and Urbino, Italy, † January 30, 2004 ) was an Italian art director and production designer who won an Oscar for Best Production Design, among others.

Life

Desideri began his career as an art director and production designer in the film industry in 1963 with the movie Zorro, the man with two faces ( Il segno di Zorro ) and worked until 2002 at the scenic amenities of around fifty films.

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

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

In 2000, he was with Roy Walker for an Oscar for Best Production Design for the film formed after the novel by Patricia Highsmith The Talented Mr. Ripley nominated ( 1999), which was directed by Anthony Minghella with Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jew Law. At the same time he was responsible for the production design in this film for the silver band, the Nastro d' Argento of Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani ( SNGCI ) nominated.

In 2000 he was also nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for Best Production Design in The Legend of pianists (1999) by Giuseppe Tornatore with Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Mélanie Thierry with Francesco Frigeri. He was nominated a second time for the Nastro d' Argento in 2001, and indeed for the Clueless (2000) by Ferzan Ozpetek with Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi and Serra Yilmaz.

Filmography

Awards