Nicola Piovani
Nicola Piovani (born 26 May 1946) is an Italian light-classical musician, theater and film score composer. In 1998, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score for Roberto Benigni's film Life Is Beautiful (1997). 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 Life Is Beautiful (La Vita è bella) 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. In 2024, Piovani composed the score for Loris Lai's debut feature film, How Kids Roll. Source: Article "Nicola Piovani" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?
(Self)
Luigi Proietti detto Gigi
(Self)
Boris: The Film
(Self)
Ennio
(Self)
Fellinopolis
(Self - Composer)
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
(Self)
La visita meravigliosa: Viaggio in Italia sulle tracce di Nino Rota
The Magic of Fellini
(Self (archive footage))
Cavalli di battaglia
(Self)
Don't Worry, I'm Fine
(Original Music Composer)
Life Is Beautiful
(Original Music Composer)
Avenue Montaigne
(Original Music Composer)
The Best Years
(Original Music Composer)
The Tiger and the Snow
(Original Music Composer)
Jamon Jamon
(Original Music Composer)
Pinocchio
(Original Music Composer)
Utz
(Original Music Composer)
The Slurb
(Original Music Composer)
La moglie ingenua e il marito malato
(Original Music Composer)
Per amore, solo per amore
(Music)
The Son's Room
(Original Music Composer)
L'appassionata
(Sound)
In the Name of the Father
(Original Music Composer)
The Marquis of Grillo
(Original Music Composer)
The Cézanne Affair
(Original Music Composer)
The Tit & the Moon
(Original Music Composer)
Morel's Invention
(Music)
Victory March
(Original Music Composer)
Camere da letto
(Original Music Composer)
Kaos
(Original Music Composer)
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
(Original Music Composer)
It's Happening Tomorrow
(Original Music Composer)
Disamistade
(Music)
Uomo d'acqua dolce
(Original Music Composer)
Lord of the Ants
(Original Music Composer)
The Voice of the Moon
(Original Music Composer)
Shooting VS Shooting
(Music)
La mia generazione
(Original Music Composer)
Cherry on the Cake
(Original Music Composer)
Una gita a Roma
(Music)
La fame e la sete
(Original Music Composer)
Il nostro matrimonio è in crisi
(Original Music Composer)
The Mountain
(Original Music Composer)
Traces of an Amorous Life
(Original Music Composer)
Viper
(Original Music Composer)
Manifesto
(Original Music Composer)
There's No Place Like Home
(Original Music Composer)
I cammelli
(Original Music Composer)
Hammamet
(Original Music Composer)
Golden Balls
(Music)
The Professor
(Original Music Composer)
The Professor
(Conductor)
Welcome
(Original Music Composer)
Anaïs in Love
(Original Music Composer)
Kaos
(Conductor)
Secrets Secrets
(Original Music Composer)
DeAndré#DeAndré - Storia di un impiegato
(Music)
I limoni d'inverno
(Music)
Non è una bufala
(Music)
I Fratelli De Filippo
(Original Music Composer)
Nemici d'infanzia
(Music)
Banana
(Original Music Composer)
In nome del popolo sovrano
(Music)
The Mass Is Ended
(Original Music Composer)
Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno
(Original Music Composer)
The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal
(Original Music Composer)
Let's Hope It's a Girl
(Original Music Composer)
Let's Hope It's a Girl
(Conductor)
Dark Illness
(Original Music Composer)
Dark Illness
(Conductor)
Leonora addio
(Music)
Palombella Rossa
(Music)
Intervista
(Original Music Composer)
Intervista
(Music Arranger)
Intervista
(Conductor)
Ginger and Fred
(Original Music Composer)
Ginger and Fred
(Conductor)
Flavia the Heretic
(Original Music Composer)
12 Directors for 12 Cities
(Original Music Composer)
Amore che vieni, amore che vai
(Original Music Composer)
The Light
(Original Music Composer)
La trappola di Maigret
(Original Music Composer)
L'ombra cinese
(Original Music Composer)
Odette Toulemonde
(Original Music Composer)
Hungry Hearts
(Original Music Composer)
Le Chef
(Original Music Composer)
Bologna
(Music Arranger)
La carbonara
(Original Music Composer)
The Big Dream
(Music)
The Confessions
(Original Music Composer)
The Flying Dutchman
(Music)
Footprints on the Moon
(Original Music Composer)
Slap the Monster on Page One
(Original Music Composer)
I Don't Want to Talk About It
(Music)
The Soup
(Original Music Composer)
In the Highest of Skies
(Music)
'o Re
(Original Music Composer)
Sun of the Hyenas
(Original Music Composer)
Fit to Be Untied
(Music)
I Don't Want to Talk About It
(Conductor)
La seconda ombra
(Music)
A Month by the Lake
(Music)
Una questione privata
(Original Music Composer)
No Dogs or Italians Allowed
(Music)
All at Sea
(Music)
Living Naked
(Original Music Composer)
A Leap in the Dark
(Original Music Composer)
I 7 Re di Roma
(Music Director)
Accattaroma
(Music)
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
(Music)
In arte Nino
(Original Music Composer)
Bad Kid
(Original Music Composer)
Lenin: The Train
(Music)
My Paper Dolls
(Original Music Composer)
Good Morning, Babylon
(Music)
Running Free
(Original Music Composer)
Sams in Gefahr
(Original Music Composer)
Una festa esagerata
(Original Music Composer)
Night Sun
(Original Music Composer)
Australia
(Music)
The Impostor
(Original Music Composer)
Caro diario
(Original Music Composer)
The Night of the Shooting Stars
(Original Music Composer)
Finché notte non ci separi
(Music)
Vermisat
(Original Music Composer)
Now and Forever Time to Reclaim Life
(Music)
Trent'anni di oblio
(Sound)
Santo Stefano
(Sound)
The Traitor
(Original Music Composer)
Kim Novak Is on the Phone
(Original Music Composer)
L'amore non perdona
(Original Music Composer)
La vita in gioco
(Music)
The Seagull
(Music)
The Seagull
(Conductor)
The Siege of Venice
(Music)
Strange Place for an Encounter
(Music)
Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten
(Music)
The Eyes, the Mouth
(Original Music Composer)
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
(Conductor)
Daydreams
(Music)
The Man in Grey
(Music)
The Mafia is white
(Music)
Amok
(Original Music Composer)
A che punto è la notte
(Original Music Composer)
The Bride Was Beautiful
(Original Music Composer)
Il nostro Eduardo
(Music)
Out of Life
(Original Music Composer)
The Magic Screen
(Music)
Queen to Play
(Music)
La soule
(Original Music Composer)
Daniele and Maria
(Original Music Composer)
Benur: Un gladiatore in affitto
(Music)
Mi chiamo Altan e faccio vignette
(Original Music Composer)
The Istambul Train
(Music)
Lenin... The Train
(Music)
Linda e il brigadiere
(Sound)
Adrian
(Music)
L'ultimo Papa Re
(Music)
Come quando fuori piove
(Music)
Benito: The Rise and Fall of Mussolini
(Original Music Composer)
A che punto è la notte
(Original Music Composer)