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Nino Rota: Italian composer.
Born (died at age 67).
Nino Rota has 50 credits in our database.
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Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score
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Biography
Giovanni "Nino" Rota Rinaldi (; Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ˈniːno ˈrɔːta riˈnaldi]; 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 screen adaptations, and for the first two installments of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy, earning 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.
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Nino Rota was born on and passed away on at the age of 67.
What movies or shows has Nino Rota been in?
Nino Rota has 50 credits in our database. Notable titles include The Lion with the White Beard (1995), A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota (1994), The Godfather Part III (1990), Big Deal After 20 Years (1985), Hurricane (1979).
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