Gianni Quaranta
Gianni Quaranta ( born August 30, 1943 in Arsiè, province of Belluno, Italy ) is an Italian art director and production designer who won an Oscar twice the British Academy Film Awards ( BAFTA Film Award ), a César, and twice the Nastro d'Argento of Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani ( SNGCI ) won.
Life
Quaranta began his career as an art director and production designer in 1971 with the film Sacco e Vanzetti and worked until 2009, over forty films.
In 1974, he was with Lorenzo Mongiardino and Carmelo Patrono for the Academy Award for Best Production Design in the film Brother Sun, Sister Moon ( 1972) by Franco Zeffirelli with Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker and Leigh Lawson.
In 1978 he won for Best Production Design in Jesus of Nazareth ( 1977) by Franco Zeffirelli Robert Powell, Anne Bancroft, and Ernest Borgnine his first Nastro d' Argento.
Another Oscar nomination for Best Production Design, he received together with Franco Zeffirelli in 1983 for the filming of La Traviata ( 1982) by Franco Zeffirelli with Teresa Stratas and Plácido Domingo. For these films, he also won a BAFTA and Zeffirelli Film Award for Best Production Design as well as the Nastro d'Argento, the silver ribbon of the Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani ( SNGCI ).
At the Academy Awards in 1987 he won with Brian Ackland -Snow, Brian Savegar and Elio Altramura the Oscar for Best Production Design in the film formed after the novel by EM Forster, Room with a View (1985 ) by James Ivory with Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter and Denholm Elliott in the lead roles. In addition, he received together with Quaranta in 1987 BAFTA Film Award for Best Production Design.
For the production design in the film Farinelli ( 1994) by Gérard Corbiau with Stefano Donisi, Enrico Lo Verso and Elsa Zylberstein he won at the presentation of César 1995 César for Best Production Design, and was also for this film for the David di Donatello for the best Production Design nomination.