Biography
Nicola Piovani (born 26 May 1946) is an Italian light-classical musician, theater and film score composer, and winner of the 1998 Best Original Dramatic Score Oscar for the score of the Roberto Benigni film La Vita è bella, better known to English-speaking audiences as Life Is Beautiful. After high school, Piovani enrolled at the Sapienza University of Rome, receiving his degree in piano from the Verdi Conservatory in Milan in 1967, and later studied orchestration under the Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis.
In 1971 and 1973 collaborated for the music of two albums of the songwriter Fabrizio De André: Storia di un impiegato and Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo. In 2008, after De André departure, Piovani wrote the music for the film Amore che vieni, amore che vai, inspired by a novel of De André himself, Un destino ridicolo.
Among his more popular works is the score for the Federico Fellini film Intervista, his second of three collaborations with the famous director, the others being Ginger e Fred (Ginger and Fred in English) and La voce della luna (The Voice of the Moon). Years later, he composed a ballet titled Balletto Fellini.
In 2000 his Academy Award-winning score for La Vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful) was further nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media" category, losing to Randy Newman. In 2005 he was a member of the jury at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival. In light of his recent work with French directors, notably Danièle Thompson, Philippe Lioret, and Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, the French Minister of Culture gave him the title of Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres on 21 May 2008 at the Cannes Film Festival.
To date, Piovani has over 130 film scores to his credit, including films such as Slap the Monster on Page One (1972), The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974), Flavia the Heretic (1974), Le Orme (1975), A Leap in the Dark (1980) The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982), and Kaos (1984). The music for the latter is considered by many as one of the best film scores ever done. However, he is reported to believe that "Too many film scores make a composer a hack, but in the theatre music is above all craftsmanship". Accordingly, he continues to work in musical theatre, and also composes concert and chamber music.
Piovani also composed the first opera Amorosa presenza on a libretto by Aisha Cerami and Nicola Piovani, based on the novel by Vincenzo Cerami and is performed at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste in January 2022.
In 2023 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Academy.
Filmography
all 181
Movies 172
TV Shows 9
self 5
Director 1
I limoni d'inverno (2023)
My Paper Dolls (2023)
Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi? (2023)
No Dogs or Italians Allowed (2023)
Lord of the Ants (2022)
Luigi Proietti detto Gigi (2022)
Leonora addio (2022)
Ennio (2022)
I Fratelli De Filippo (2021)
Anaïs in Love (2021)
DeAndré#DeAndré - Storia di un impiegato (2021)
Fellinopolis (2021)
Il nostro Eduardo (2020)
The Best Years (2020)
Hammamet (2020)
Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten (2019)
The Traitor (2019)
Adrian (2019)
Now and Forever Time to Reclaim Life (2018)
Non è una bufala (2018)
Una festa esagerata (2018)
There's No Place Like Home (2018)
Una gita a Roma (2017)
Daydreams (2017)
Cavalli di battaglia (2017)
Evviva Giuseppe (2017)
In arte Nino (2016)
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre' (2016)
The Confessions (2016)
Assolo (2016)
L'amore non perdona (2015)
Hungry Hearts (2015)
Banana (2015)
La trattativa (2014)
Mama's Boy (2013)
Benur - Un gladiatore in affitto (2013)
L'ultimo Papa Re (2013)
Cherry on the Cake (2012)
Sams im Glück (2012)
Le Chef (2012)
The Conquest (2011)
Il sesso aggiunto (2011)
Shooting VS Shooting (2011)
Boris: The Film (2011)
All at Sea (2011)
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore (2010)
The Cézanne Affair (2009)
The Big Dream (2009)
Bets & Wedding Dresses (2009)
Welcome (2009)
Change of Plans (2009)
Her Name Is Sabine (2008)
Ballerina (2008)
Amore che vieni, amore che vai (2007)
Odette Toulemonde (2007)
Don't Worry, I'm Fine (2006)
The Robber Hotzenplotz (2006)
Avenue Montaigne (2006)
The Mafia is white (2005)
The Tiger and the Snow (2005)
L'ombra cinese (2004)
La trappola di Maigret (2004)
The Light (2004)
The Undesirables (2003)
Sams in Gefahr (2003)
Fellini's TV Advertisements (2003)
Pinocchio (2002)
Clown in Kabul (2002)
Nowhere (2002)
Il nostro matrimonio è in crisi (2002)
The Magic of Fellini (2002)
Resurrection (2001)
In Love and War (2001)
The Slurb (2001)
The Son's Room (2001)
Come quando fuori piove (2000)
Viper (2000)
La seconda ombra (2000)
La carbonara (2000)
Love in the Mirror (1999)
Running Free (1999)
Sweet Idleness (1999)
La fame e la sete (1999)
No Trains No Planes (1999)
You Laugh (1998)
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
The Man in Grey (1997)
Santo Stefano (1997)
The Impostor (1997)
Linda e il brigadiere (1997)
Uomo d'acqua dolce (1997)
Camere da letto (1997)
Más allá del jardín (1996)
La mia generazione (1996)
Nemici d'infanzia (1995)
Bad Kid (1995)
A Month by the Lake (1995)
The Flying Dutchman (1995)
A che punto è la notte (1994)
The Tit and the Moon (1994)
Kim Novak Is on the Phone (1994)
Benito: The Rise and Fall of Mussolini (1994)
Per amore, solo per amore (1993)
Caro diario (1993)
Amok (1993)
Golden Balls (1993)
Una questione privata (1993)
Fiorile (1993)
Living Naked (1993)
I Don't Want to Talk About It (1993)
Jamon Jamon (1992)
Close Friends (1992)
Utz (1992)
The Siege of Venice (1991)
Out of Life (1991)
In nome del popolo sovrano (1990)
The Mountain (1990)
Traces of an Amorous Life (1990)
Night Sun (1990)
Lenin: The Train (1990)
The Voice of the Moon (1990)
Dark Illness (1990)
Palombella Rossa (1989)
Australia (1989)
12 Directors for 12 Cities (1989)
La moglie ingenua e il marito malato (1989)
L'appassionata (1989)
La soule (1989)
'o Re (1989)
Bologna (1989)
I 7 Re di Roma (1989)
Lenin... The Train (1988)
Disamistade (1988)
I cammelli (1988)
Chiari di luna (1988)
Strange Place for an Encounter (1988)
It's Happening Tomorrow (1988)
Strana la vita (1988)
Manifesto (1988)
Intervista (1987)
The Bride Was Beautiful (1987)
Good Morning, Babylon (1987)
The Professor (1986)
Let's Hope It's a Girl (1986)
Ginger and Fred (1986)
The Mass Is Ended (1985)
The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal (1985)
Secrets Secrets (1985)
Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno (1984)
Kaos (1984)
The Scorpion (1984)
Desiderio (1984)
La trace (1983)
The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
The Eyes, the Mouth (1982)
The Magic Screen (1982)
The Marquis of Grillo (1981)
The Girl with the Red Hair (1981)
The Soup (1981)
Vacation in Val Trebbia (1980)
The Istambul Train (1980)
Leap Into the Void (1980)
In the Highest of Skies (1977)
The Seagull (1977)
Sun of the Hyenas (1977)
Victory March (1976)
La vita in gioco (1975)
Footprints on the Moon (1975)
Fit to Be Untied (1975)
Vermisat (1974)
Flavia the Heretic (1974)
The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974)
Morel's Invention (1974)
Daniele and Maria (1973)
Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)
In the Name of the Father (1971)
N.P. (1971)
Tin Girl (1970)
Per tutto il tempo che ci resta
L'appassionata
The Voice of the Moon
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Known ForSound
GenderMale
Birthday1946-05-26 (77 years old)
Birth PlaceRome, Italy
CitizenshipsItaly
Also Known AsNikola Piovani
AwardsAcademy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
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