Biography
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Giovanni "Nino" Rota (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974).
During his long career Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema. He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979—an average of three scores each year over a 46-year period, and in his most productive period from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s he wrote as many as ten scores every year, and sometimes more, with a remarkable thirteen film scores to his credit in 1954. Alongside this great body of film work, he composed ten operas, five ballets and dozens of other orchestral, choral and chamber works, the best known being his string concerto. He also composed the music for many theatre productions by Visconti, Zeffirelli and Eduardo De Filippo as well as maintaining a long teaching career at the Liceo Musicale in Bari, Italy, where he was the director for almost 30 years.
Filmography
all 165
Movies 161
self 4
TV Shows 4
Hotzzo! (2019)
The Morricone Duel: The Most Dangerous Concert Ever (2018)
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre' (2016)
Cinephile (2013)
Sur les traces de Fellini (2013)
Love Story (2011)
The Magic of Fellini (2002)
Red Market (1998)
The Lion with the White Beard (1995)
A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota (1994)
Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert (1993)
Chikan densha: Gusshori nurashite (1988)
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later (1985)
The Godfather Epic: 1901-1959 (1981)
The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic (1981)
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (1979)
Hurricane (1979)
Quei figuri di tanti anni fa (1978)
Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)
Death on the Nile (1978)
Contact (1978)
Il furto della gioconda (1978)
Las alegres chicas de 'El Molino' (1977)
Fellini's Casanova (1976)
Origins of the Mafia (1976)
Dear Michele (1976)
Ragazzo di borgata (1976)
E il Casanova di Fellini? (1975)
Пісня завжди з нами (1975)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
The Abdication (1974)
The Secret Diary of 'Amarcord' (1974)
Amarcord (1973)
Sunset Sunrise (1973)
Love and Anarchy (1973)
Roma (1972)
The Godfather (1972)
Red Ruta (1971)
Waterloo (1970)
The Clowns (1970)
Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook (1969)
Toby Dammit (1969)
Spirits of the Dead (1968)
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
Much Ado About Nothing (1967)
Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand (1966)
Oggi, domani, dopodomani (1965)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Gian Burrasca's Diary (1964)
The Teacher from Vigevano (1963)
The Leopard (1963)
8½ (1963)
The Reluctant Saint (1962)
Boccaccio '70 (1962)
The Best of Enemies (1961)
The Brigand (1961)
Ghosts of Rome (1961)
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Purple Noon (1960)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
The Great War (1959)
Il Pranzo di Natale di Mario Soldati (1958)
The Law Is the Law (1958)
Piece of the Sky (1958)
The Italians They Are Crazy (1958)
Fortunella (1958)
City at Night (1958)
Doctor and the Healer (1957)
Le Notti Bianche (1957)
This Angry Age (1957)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
The Most Wonderful Moment (1957)
Italia piccola (1957)
The House of Intrigue (1956)
War and Peace (1956)
Io piaccio (1955)
It Happened in the Penitentiary (1955)
The Swindle (1955)
La bella di Roma (1955)
Forbidden (1955)
A Hero of Our Times (1955)
Divisione Folgore (1954)
Loves of Three Queens (1954)
The Two Orphans (1954)
La Strada (1954)
Modern Virgin (1954)
Passionately (1954)
Submarine Attack (1954)
100 Years of Love (1954)
The Stranger's Hand (1954)
Star of India (1954)
The Hunt (1953)
The Most Wanted Man (1953)
Lo scocciatore (1953)
The Ship of Condemned Women (1953)
Easy Years (1953)
Gli uomini, che mascalzoni! (1953)
I Vitelloni (1953)
Riscatto (1953)
The Wild Oat (1953)
Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair (1953)
Good Folk's Sunday (1953)
Hell Raiders of the Deep (1953)
Noi due soli (1952)
Ragazze da marito (1952)
Gli angeli del quartiere (1952)
The Queen of Sheba (1952)
I tre corsari (1952)
Toto and the Kings of Rome (1952)
Luxury Girls (1952)
Venetian Bird (1952)
The White Sheik (1952)
Something Money Can't Buy (1952)
Marito e Moglie (1952)
Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino (1952)
Un ladro in paradiso (1952)
Anna (1951)
Never Take No for an Answer (1951)
It's Him!... Yes! Yes! (1951)
Filumena Marturano (1951)
Valley of the Eagles (1951)
Honeymoon Deferred (1951)
Napoleone (1951)
White Corridors (1951)
Il monello della strada (1950)
È arrivato il Cavaliere (1950)
The King's Guerrillas (1950)
Twelve Hours to Live (1950)
A Dog’s Life (1950)
Side Street Story (1950)
Her Favourite Husband (1950)
It's Forever Springtime (1950)
The Pirates of Capri (1949)
Children of Chance (1949)
Campane a martello (1949)
Obsession (1949)
Come scopersi l'America (1949)
Toto Tours Italy (1948)
Woman Trouble (1948)
Under the Sun of Rome (1948)
Without Pity (1948)
L'eroe della strada (1948)
Arrivederci, papà! (1948)
Guaglio (1948)
Escape to France (1948)
Lovers Without Love (1948)
How I Lost the War (1947)
When Love Calls (1947)
Vanità (1947)
Daniele Cortis (1947)
To Live in Peace (1947)
Rome: Free City (1946)
Professor, My Son (1946)
Un americano in vacanza (1946)
Albergo Luna, camera 34 (1946)
The Misery of Mr. Travet (1945)
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo (1945)
La freccia nel fianco (1945)
Woman of the Mountains (1944)
Zazà (1944)
Daddy's Little Devil (1943)
Giorno di nozze (1942)
Tourist Train (1933)
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Known ForSound
GenderMale
Birthday1911-12-03
Deathday1979-04-10 (67 years old)
Birth NameGiovanni Rota Rinaldi
Birth PlaceMilan, Italy
CitizenshipsKingdom of Italy, Italy
ResidencesKingdom of Italy, Kingdom of Italy, Milan, Italy
Also Known AsGiovanni "Nino" Rota Rinaldi, Nino Rotta, Nino Roto
AwardsGrammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, BAFTA Award for Best Original Music, Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score
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