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.
Movie Credits
Nino Rota has appeared in 5 movies.
These include
The Secret Diary of 'Amarcord',
A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota,
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook,
Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert and
The Magic of Fellini.
Production Credits
Nino Rota has 144 production credits.
Sound
Credited for Original Music Composer in 111 shows -
Blue Eye Samurai,
Middle-Class Train,
Giorno di nozze,
Zazà,
Woman of the Mountains,
La freccia nel fianco,
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo,
The Misery of Mr. Travet,
Un americano in vacanza,
Professor, My Son,
Rome: Free City,
To Live in Peace,
Daniele Cortis,
How I Lost the War,
Lovers Without Love,
Escape to France,
Guaglio,
Arrivederci, papà!,
L'eroe della strada,
Without Pity,
Under the Sun of Rome,
Come scopersi l'America,
Obsession,
Campane a martello,
The Pirates of Capri,
It's Forever Springtime,
Her Favourite Husband,
Armstrong Circle Theatre,
Side Street Story,
A Dog’s Life,
The King's Guerrillas,
È arrivato il Cavaliere,
Il monello della strada,
White Corridors,
Filumena Marturano,
It's Him!... Yes! Yes!,
Anna,
Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino,
Marito e Moglie,
The White Sheik,
Venetian Bird,
Toto and the Kings of Rome,
The Queen of Sheba,
Ragazze da marito,
Noi due soli,
Hell Raiders of the Deep,
Good Folk's Sunday,
Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair,
Riscatto,
I Vitelloni,
Easy Years,
The Ship of Condemned Women,
Lo scocciatore,
100 Years of Love,
Submarine Attack,
Passionately,
Modern Virgin,
La Strada,
The Two Orphans,
Divisione Folgore,
La bella di Roma,
The Swindle,
The Most Wonderful Moment,
Nights of Cabiria,
This Angry Age,
Doctor and the Healer,
City at Night,
Fortunella,
Piece of the Sky,
Il Pranzo di Natale di Mario Soldati,
The Great War,
La Dolce Vita,
Purple Noon,
Rocco and His Brothers,
The Brigand,
The Best of Enemies,
Boccaccio '70,
Arturo's Island,
The Teacher from Vigevano,
Let's Make a Deal,
Juliet of the Spirits,
Oggi, domani, dopodomani,
Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand,
The Taming of the Shrew,
Romeo and Juliet,
Spirits of the Dead,
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook,
The Clowns,
Roma,
Amarcord,
Dear Michele,
Death on the Nile,
Hurricane,
The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic,
Kinnikuman,
Chocky,
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later,
Out on a Limb,
Star Cops,
Live & Kicking,
Smack the Pony,
Jackie Chan Adventures,
Winter Sonata,
Third Star,
DOCTORS: The Ultimate Surgeon,
青盲,
Torrent～Do You Remember Me?,
Amagi Brilliant Park,
Le chalet,
Significant Mother and
Mark Rober's Revengineers.
Credited for Music in 30 shows -
Daddy's Little Devil,
Albergo Luna, camera 34,
When Love Calls,
Children of Chance,
Twelve Hours to Live,
Napoleone,
Un ladro in paradiso,
The Wild Oat,
Gli uomini, che mascalzoni!,
Star of India,
The Stranger's Hand,
Loves of Three Queens,
Io piaccio,
Italia piccola,
The Italians They Are Crazy,
The Reluctant Saint,
Waterloo,
Sunset Sunrise,
The Secret Diary of 'Amarcord',
The Abdication,
E il Casanova di Fellini?,
Origins of the Mafia,
Il furto della gioconda,
The Lion with the White Beard,
Red Market,
The Orphan Killer,
La Ma Qiao Ba,
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre',
Hotzzo! and
Alibi Breaker.
Camera
Crew
Credited for Compositors in 1 show -
Cinephile.
Credited for Compositor in 1 show -
The Hunt.
