Ferretti and Marianelli pick up awards
Dante Ferretti turns 65 tomorrow. What better gift than an Oscar, his second after one received in 2005 for Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator?
Ferretti and wife Francesca Lo Schiavo, awarded Best Art Decoration for their reconstruction of a darkly Victorian London in Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd, were clearly moved when accepting their statuette.
"Tim has very clear ideas in his mind about what he wants. He’s a visionary with a very precise vision and is very exact in what he imagines. It’s easy to work with geniuses like him," Ferretti told blogger Giovanni Bogani a few hours before the ceremony. Bogani interviewed him in an Italian restaurant in Beverly Hills, where the Italian Film Commission was celebrating the Italian Oscar nominees.
Italy also brought home another Oscar, for Dario Marianelli, winner of Best Score for Joe Wright’s Atonement [+see also:
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Marianelli is currently working on the music for the British director’s third feature, The Soloist.
(Translated from Italian)
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