Giuseppe Rotunno (19 March 1923 – 7 February 2021) was an Italian cinematographer.[1]
Giuseppe Rotunno | |
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| Born | Giuseppe Rotunno 19 March 1923 Rome, Italy |
| Died | 7 February 2021 (aged 97) Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Other names | Peppino Rotunno |
| Occupation | Cinematographer |
| Years active | 1955–1997 |
| Awards | David di Donatello for Best Cinematography
Silver Ribbon Award for Best Cinematography
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Biography
editSometimes credited as Peppino Rotunno, he was director of photography on eight films by Federico Fellini. He collaborated with several celebrated Italian directors including; Vittorio De Sica on Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, and Luchino Visconti on Rocco and His Brothers (1960), The Leopard (1963), and The Stranger (1967). Rotunno also served as the director of photography for Julia and Julia (1987), the first feature shot using high definition television taping technique and then transferred to 35 mm film.[2]
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for All That Jazz and won seven Silver Ribbon Awards.
Rotunno was the first non-American member admitted to the American Society of Cinematographers[3] in 1966.
Rotunno died on 7 February 2021,[4][5] at the age of 97.[6]
Mark Lager, on Senses of Cinema, praised Giuseppe Rotunno's cinematography as "especially attuned to colour, composition, and perspective", particularly in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard and Federico Fellini's Amarcord, writing "Rotunno’s cinematography in Amarcord is nostalgic as it presents the carnivalesque citizens and their daily lives during the four seasons in Fellini’s reimagined seaside village of Rimini. His cinematography in The Leopard is elegant and panoramic as it surveys the rituals of the Sicilian nobility, centred upon Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina."[7]
Filmography
edit1950s
edit- Scandal in Sorrento (1955)
- Tosca (1956)
- The Monte Carlo Story (1956)
- White Nights (1957)
- Anna of Brooklyn (1958)
- The Love Specialist (1958)
- The Naked Maja (1958)
- Policarpo (1959)
- The Great War (1959)
- On the Beach (1959)
1960s
edit- Five Branded Women (1960)
- The Angel Wore Red (1960)
- Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
- Phantom Lovers (1961)
- The Best of Enemies (1961)
- Boccaccio '70 (1962)
- Family Diary (1962)
- The Leopard (1963)
- The Organizer (1963)
- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
- The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)
- The Witches (1967)
- The Stranger (1967)
- Spirits of the Dead (1968)
- Caprice Italian Style (1968)
- Anzio (1968)
- Candy (1968)
- Fellini Satyricon (1969)
- The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)
1970s
edit- Sunflower (1970)
- Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale (1970)
- Carnal Knowledge (1971)
- Roma (1972)
- Man of La Mancha (1972)
- Love and Anarchy (1973)
- Amarcord (1973)
- All Screwed Up (1974)
- Erotomania (1974)
- The Beast (1974)
- The Divine Nymph (1975)
- Fellini's Casanova (1976)
- Origins of the Mafia (1976)
- Stormtroopers (1976)
- Ecco noi per esempio (1977)
- A Night Full of Rain (1978)
- China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)
- Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
- Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)
- All That Jazz (1979)
1980s
edit- City of Women (1980)
- Popeye (1980)
- Rollover (1981)
- My Darling, My Dearest (1982)
- Five Days One Summer (1982)
- The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
- And the Ship Sails On (1983)
- American Dreamer (1984)
- Nothing Left to Do But Cry (1984)
- The Assisi Underground (1985)
- Red Sonja (1985)
- Hotel Colonial (1987)
- Julia and Julia (1987)
- Rent-a-Cop (1988)
- Haunted Summer (1988)
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
1990s
edit- The Bachelor (1990)
- Regarding Henry (1991)
- Once Upon a Crime (1992)
- Wolf (1994)
- The Night and the Moment (1995)
- Sabrina (1995)
- The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
- Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember (1997)
References
edit- ^ "GIUSEPPE ROTUNNO". www.cinematographers.nl. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
- ^ New York Times overview of Julia and Julia
- ^ "Members – The American Society of Cinematographers". theasc.com. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
- ^ "Oscar-Nominated Cinematographer and Fellini Collaborator Giuseppe Rotunno Dies at 97". Variety. 8 February 2021. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
- ^ "Giuseppe Rotunno Dies: Oscar Nominated Italian Cinematographer Was 97". Deadline. 8 February 2021. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
- ^ "È morto Peppino Rotunno, il maestro della fotografia di Visconti e Fellini". La Repubblica. 7 February 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ Lager, Mark (2021). "Dreams of Italy's Past - Giuseppe Rotunno's Cinematography in Amarcord and The Leopard".