Giovanni "Nino" Rota[1] (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

Federico Fellini and
Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco
Zeffirelli's
Shakespeare

Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis
Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the
Academy Award

Academy Award for Best
Original Score for
The Godfather

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[2] as well
as maintaining a long teaching career at the Liceo Musicale in Bari,
Italy, where he was the director for almost 30 years.
Contents
1 Early career
2 Film scores
3 Orchestral, chamber and choral music
4 Operas
5 Personal life
6 Death
7 Quotations
8 Works
9 Discography
10 References
11 Further reading
12 External links
Early career[edit]
Rota at age 12.
Giovanni Rota was born into a musical family in Milan. Rota was a
renowned child prodigy—his first oratorio, L'infanzia di San
Giovanni Battista, was written at age 11[3] and performed in
Milan

Milan and
Paris as early as 1923; his three-act lyrical comedy after Hans
Christian Andersen, Il Principe Porcaro, was composed when he was just
13 and published in 1926. He studied at the
Milan

Milan conservatory there
under Giacomo Orefice[2] and then undertook serious study of
composition under
Ildebrando Pizzetti

Ildebrando Pizzetti and
Alfredo Casella

Alfredo Casella at the Santa
Cecilia Academy in Rome, graduating in 1930.[4]
Encouraged by Arturo Toscanini, Rota moved to the United States where
he lived from 1930 to 1932. He won a scholarship to the Curtis
Institute of Philadelphia, where he was taught conducting by Fritz
Reiner and had
Rosario Scalero

Rosario Scalero as an instructor in composition.[4]
Returning to Milan, he wrote a thesis on the Renaissance composer
Gioseffo Zarlino. Rota earned a degree in literature from the
University of Milan, graduating in 1937, and began a teaching career
that led to the directorship of the Liceo Musicale in Bari, a title he
held from 1950 until 1978.[4]
Film scores[edit]
In his entry on Rota in the 1988 edition of The Concise Baker's
Biographical Dictionary of Composers and Musicians, music scholar
Nicholas Slonimsky

Nicholas Slonimsky described Rota as "brilliant" and stated that his
musical style:
"... demonstrates a great facility and even felicity, with occasional
daring excursions into dodecaphony. However his most durable
compositions are related to his music for the cinema; he composed the
sound tracks of a great number of films of the Italian director
Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini covering the period from 1950 to 1979."[4]
Furthermore, one of his compositional habits in particular came up for
disapproving remarks: his penchant for pastiche of various past
styles, which quite often turned into outright quotation of his own
earlier music or even others' music. One of the most noticed examples
of such incorporation is his use of the
Larghetto
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Larghetto from Dvorák's Opus
22 Serenade for Strings in E major as a theme for a character in
Fellini's La Strada.[5]
During the 1940s, Rota composed scores for more than 32 films,
including Renato Castellani's Zazà (1944). His association with
Fellini began with
Lo sceicco bianco

Lo sceicco bianco (The White Sheik) (1952),
followed by
I vitelloni

I vitelloni (1953) and
La strada

La strada (The Road) (1954). They
continued to work together for decades, and Fellini recalled:
The most precious collaborator I have ever had, I say it straightaway
and don't even have to hesitate, was
Nino Rota

Nino Rota — between us,
immediately, a complete, total, harmony ... He had a geometric
imagination, a musical approach worthy of celestial spheres. He thus
had no need to see images from my movies. When I asked him about the
melodies he had in mind to comment one sequence or another, I clearly
realized he was not concerned with images at all. His world was inner,
inside himself, and reality had no way to enter it.[6]
The relationship between Fellini and Rota was so strong that even at
Fellini's funeral Giulietta Masina, Fellini's wife, asked trumpeter
Mauro Maur

Mauro Maur to play Rota's Improvviso dell'Angelo in the Basilica di
Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri

Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome.[7]
Rota's score for Fellini's
8½

8½ (1963) is often cited as one of the
factors which makes the film cohesive. His score for Fellini's Juliet
of the Spirits (1965) included a collaboration with
Eugene Walter

Eugene Walter on
the song, "Go Milk the Moon" (cut from the final version of the film),
and they teamed again for the song "What Is a Youth?", part of Rota's
score for Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet.
The
American Film Institute
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American Film Institute ranked Rota's score for
The Godfather

The Godfather #5
on their list of the greatest film scores. His score for War and Peace
was also nominated for the list. In all, Rota wrote scores to more
than 150 films.
Orchestral, chamber and choral music[edit]
Rota wrote numerous concerti and other orchestral works as well as
piano, chamber and choral music, much of which has been recorded and
released on CD. After his death from heart failure[8] in 1979, Rota's
music was the subject of Hal Willner's 1981 tribute album Amarcord
Nino Rota, which featured several at the time relatively unknown but
now famous jazz musicians.
Gus Van Sant

Gus Van Sant used some of Rota's music in
his 2007 film Paranoid Park and director
Michael Winterbottom
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Michael Winterbottom used
several Rota selections in the 2005 film Tristram Shandy: A Cock and
Bull Story.
Danny Elfman

Danny Elfman frequently cites
Nino Rota

Nino Rota as a major
influence. Director
Mario Monicelli

Mario Monicelli filmed a documentary Un amico
magico: il maestro
Nino Rota

Nino Rota which featured interviews with Franco
Zeffirelli and
Riccardo Muti

Riccardo Muti (a student under Rota at Bari
Conservatory), and was followed by a German documentary
Nino Rota

Nino Rota - Un
maestro della musica. Both explored film and concert sides of the
composer.
Operas[edit]
His 1955 opera
Il cappello di paglia di Firenze (The Florentine Straw
Hat) is an adaptation of the play by
Eugène Labiche

Eugène Labiche and was presented
by the Santa Fe
Opera

Opera in 1977. In 2005 his opera Aladino e la lampada
magica (Aladdin and the Magical Lamp), with Cosmin Ifrim in the title
role, was performed in German translation at the Vienna State Opera
and released on DVD.
Il cappello di paglia di Firenze and Aladino e la
lampada magica are regularly staged in Europe as are many symphonic
and chamber titles
Written for a radio production by
RAI
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RAI in 1950, his short opera, I due
timidi (The Two Timid Ones), was presented by the Santa Fe
Opera

Opera as
part of their pre-season "One-Hour Opera" program in May/June 2008.
Personal life[edit]
Rota has one daughter, Nina Rota, from a relationship with pianist
Magda Longari. [9]
Death[edit]
Rota died from a coronary thrombosis in Rome, aged 67.
Quotations[edit]
Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini recalls his first chance meeting with Rota:
"Outside Cinecittà, I noticed a funny little man waiting in the wrong
place for the tram. He seemed happily oblivious of everything. I felt
compelled... to wait with him... I was certain that the tram would
stop in its regular place and we would have to run for it, and he was
equally certain it would stop where he was standing... To my surprise,
the tram did stop right in front of us."
A critic conversing with
Nino Rota

Nino Rota at the age of eleven just prior to
a performance of his oratorio, The Childhood of St. John the Baptist,
in 1923:
Critic: "Do you like playing?"
Rota: "Whenever I can ... Is it hard to write for a newspaper?"
Critic: "It's not easy to do a good article"
Rota: "Have you come from Brussels specially to hear my oratorio?"
Critic: "I certainly have, my little friend."
Rota: "That’s really funny. I won’t be conducting it tonight.
Yesterday the double bass snubbed me"
On his friendship with Igor Stravinsky:
"Stravinsky was fun; his mind struck sparks. Age was no barrier - ours
became a true friendship, despite distance and meeting ever more
rarely."
Nino Rota

Nino Rota reflecting on the unhappiness of others:
"When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the
eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others?
I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness.
That's what's at the heart of my music."
Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini on Nino Rota:
"He was someone who had a rare quality belonging to the world of
intuition. Just like children, simple men, sensitive people, innocent
people, he would suddenly say dazzling things. As soon as he arrived,
stress disappeared, everything turned into a festive atmosphere; the
movie entered a joyful, serene, fantastic period, a new life."
Works[edit]
See
List of compositions by Nino Rota and List of film scores by Nino
Rota
Discography[edit]
See
Nino Rota

Nino Rota discography
References[edit]
^ ninorota.com
^ a b "
Nino Rota

Nino Rota Music Catalogue".
^ Nicholas Slonimsky, The Concise Baker's Biographical Dictionary of
Composers and Musicians (Simon & Schuster, London, 1988,
ISBN 0-671-69896-6), p. 1063
^ a b c d Slonimsky, p.1063
^ AllMusic.
Nino Rota

Nino Rota - Le Molière imaginaire, ballet suite for
orchestra
^ Rota & Fellini Archived 2010-11-20 at the Wayback Machine.,
Cadrage, April/May 2003
^ "fellini_funerali ITALIANO - Basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli e
dei Martiri alle Terme di Diocleziano di Roma".
^ "Nino Rota".
^ Videtti, Giuseppe. “Amarcord Nino Rota“,
La Repubblica

La Repubblica Milano,
20 April 2014.
Kennedy, Michael (2006), The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 985 pages,
ISBN 0-19-861459-4
Further reading[edit]
Richard Dyer. Nino Rota: Music, Film, and Feeling. New York: Palgrave
and Macmillan (on behalf of the British Film Institute), 2010.
Franco Sciannameo. Nino Rota's
The Godfather

The Godfather Trilogy: A Film Score
Guide. Scarecrow Press, 2010.
John Simon. The Other Rota. The New Criterion, Vol. 34, No. 10 / June
2016
External links[edit]
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"Speak Softly, Love"
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Academy Award

Academy Award for Best Original Score
1930s
Louis Silvers

Louis Silvers (1934)
Max Steiner

Max Steiner (1935)
Leo F. Forbstein

Leo F. Forbstein (1936)
Charles Previn

Charles Previn (1937)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold/Alfred Newman (1938)
Herbert Stothart/Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, Leo
Shuken (1939)
1940s
Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, Ned Washington/Alfred Newman (1940)
Bernard Herrmann/
Frank Churchill and
Oliver Wallace (1941)
Max Steiner/
Ray Heindorf and
Heinz Roemheld (1942)
Alfred Newman/
Ray Heindorf (1943)
Max Steiner/
Morris Stoloff and
Carmen Dragon

Carmen Dragon (1944)
Miklós Rózsa/
Georgie Stoll (1945)
Hugo Friedhofer/
Morris Stoloff (1946)
Miklós Rózsa/Alfred Newman (1947)
Brian Easdale/
Johnny Green

Johnny Green and
Roger Edens (1948)
Aaron Copland/
Roger Edens and
Lennie Hayton (1949)
1950s
Franz Waxman/
Adolph Deutsch and
Roger Edens (1950)
Franz Waxman/
Johnny Green

Johnny Green and
Saul Chaplin (1951)
Dimitri Tiomkin/Alfred Newman (1952)
Bronisław Kaper/Alfred Newman (1953)
Dimitri Tiomkin/
Adolph Deutsch and
Saul Chaplin (1954)
Alfred Newman/Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton and Adolph Deutsch
(1955)
Victor Young/Alfred Newman and
Ken Darby (1956)
Malcolm Arnold (1957)
Dimitri Tiomkin/Andre Previn (1958)
Miklós Rózsa/Andre Previn and
Ken Darby (1959)
1960s
Ernest Gold/
Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman (1960)
Henry Mancini/Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green,
Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal
(1961)
Maurice Jarre/
Ray Heindorf (1962)
John Addison/Andre Previn (1963)
Richard M. Sherman

Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman/Andre Previn (1964)
Maurice Jarre/
Irwin Kostal (1965)
John Barry/
Ken Thorne (1966)
Elmer Bernstein/Alfred Newman and
Ken Darby (1967)
John Barry/
Johnny Green

Johnny Green (1968)
Burt Bacharach/
Lennie Hayton and
Lionel Newman (1969)
1970s
Francis Lai/
The Beatles

The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
and Ringo Starr) (1970)
Michel Legrand/
John Williams

John Williams (1971)
Charlie Chaplin,
Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell/
Ralph Burns
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Ralph Burns (1972)
Marvin Hamlisch/
Marvin Hamlisch

Marvin Hamlisch (1973)
Nino Rota

Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola/
Nelson Riddle

Nelson Riddle (1974)
John Williams/
Leonard Rosenman

Leonard Rosenman (1975)
Jerry Goldsmith/
Leonard Rosenman

Leonard Rosenman (1976)
John Williams/
Jonathan Tunick (1977)
Giorgio Moroder/
Joe Renzetti (1978)
Georges Delerue/
Ralph Burns
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Ralph Burns (1979)
1980s
Michael Gore (1980)
Vangelis

Vangelis (1981)
John Williams/
Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini and
Leslie Bricusse (1982)
Bill Conti/Michel Legrand,
Alan and Marilyn Bergman (1983)
Maurice Jarre/Prince (1984)
John Barry (1985)
Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock (1986)
Ryuichi Sakamoto,
David Byrne

David Byrne and
Cong Su (1987)
Dave Grusin

Dave Grusin (1988)
Alan Menken
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Alan Menken (1989)
1990s
John Barry (1990)
Alan Menken
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Alan Menken (1991)
Alan Menken
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Alan Menken (1992)
John Williams

John Williams (1993)
Hans Zimmer

Hans Zimmer (1994)
Luis Enríquez Bacalov/
Alan Menken
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Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz (1995)
Gabriel Yared/
Rachel Portman (1996)
James Horner/
Anne Dudley

Anne Dudley (1997)
Nicola Piovani/
Stephen Warbeck (1998)
John Corigliano (1999)
2000s
Tan Dun

Tan Dun (2000)
Howard Shore

Howard Shore (2001)
Elliot Goldenthal

Elliot Goldenthal (2002)
Howard Shore

Howard Shore (2003)
Jan A. P. Kaczmarek
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Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (2004)
Gustavo Santaolalla

Gustavo Santaolalla (2005)
Gustavo Santaolalla

Gustavo Santaolalla (2006)
Dario Marianelli (2007)
A. R. Rahman

A. R. Rahman (2008)
Michael Giacchino

Michael Giacchino (2009)
2010s
Trent Reznor

Trent Reznor and
Atticus Ross

Atticus Ross (2010)
Ludovic Bource

Ludovic Bource (2011)
Mychael Danna (2012)
Steven Price (2013)
Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Desplat (2014)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (2015)
Justin Hurwitz
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Justin Hurwitz (2016)
Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Desplat (2017)
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BAFTA Award for Best Film Music
John Barry (1968)
Mikis Theodorakis

Mikis Theodorakis (1969)
Burt Bacharach

Burt Bacharach (1970)
Michel Legrand (1971)
Nino Rota

Nino Rota (1972)
Alan Price (1973)
Richard Rodney Bennett (1974)
John Williams

John Williams (1975)
Bernard Herrmann

Bernard Herrmann (1976)
John Addison (1977)
John Williams

John Williams (1978)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (1979)
John Williams

John Williams (1980)
Carl Davis

Carl Davis (1981)
John Williams

John Williams (1982)
Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto (1983)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (1984)
Maurice Jarre

Maurice Jarre (1985)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (1986)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (1987)
John Williams

John Williams (1988)
Maurice Jarre

Maurice Jarre (1989)
Andrea and
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (1990)
Jean-Claude Petit (1991)
David Hirschfelder (1992)
John Williams

John Williams (1993)
Don Was

Don Was (1994)
Luis Bacalov

Luis Bacalov (1995)
Gabriel Yared (1996)
Nellee Hooper (1997)
David Hirschfelder (1998)
Thomas Newman

Thomas Newman (1999)
Tan Dun

Tan Dun (2000)
Craig Armstrong and
Marius de Vries (2001)
Philip Glass

Philip Glass (2002)
T Bone Burnett

T Bone Burnett and
Gabriel Yared (2003)
Gustavo Santaolalla

Gustavo Santaolalla (2004)
John Williams

John Williams (2005)
Gustavo Santaolalla

Gustavo Santaolalla (2006)
Christopher Gunning

Christopher Gunning (2007)
A. R. Rahman

A. R. Rahman (2008)
Michael Giacchino

Michael Giacchino (2009)
Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Desplat (2010)
Ludovic Bource

Ludovic Bource (2011)
Thomas Newman

Thomas Newman (2012)
Steven Price (2013)
Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Desplat (2014)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (2015)
Justin Hurwitz
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Justin Hurwitz (2016)
Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Desplat (2017)
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David di Donatello

David di Donatello Award for Best Score
1975–2000
Piero Piccioni (1975)
Franco Mannino

Franco Mannino (1976)
Nino Rota

Nino Rota (1977)
Armando Trovajoli

Armando Trovajoli (1978)
Fiorenzo Carpi

Fiorenzo Carpi (1981)
Lucio Dalla

Lucio Dalla and Fabio Liberatori (1982)
Angelo Branduardi (1983)
Armando Trovajoli

Armando Trovajoli and
Vladimir Cosma

Vladimir Cosma (1984)
Carlo Savina

Carlo Savina (1985)
Riz Ortolani

Riz Ortolani /
Nicola Piovani

Nicola Piovani (1986)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (1988)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (1989)
Claudio Mattone (1990)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (1991)
Franco Piersanti (1992)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (1993)
Nicola Piovani

Nicola Piovani (1994)
Franco Piersanti (1995)
Manuel De Sica
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Manuel De Sica (1996)
Paolo Conte

Paolo Conte (1997)
Nino D'Angelo

Nino D'Angelo (1998)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (1999)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (2000)
2001–present
Nicola Piovani

Nicola Piovani (2001)
Fabio Vacchi (2002)
Andrea Guerra (2003)
Banda Osiris

Banda Osiris (2004)
Riz Ortolani

Riz Ortolani (2005)
Franco Piersanti (2006)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (2007)
Paolo Buonvino

Paolo Buonvino (2008)
Teho Teardo

Teho Teardo (2009)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (2010)
Rita Marcotulli

Rita Marcotulli and
Rocco Papaleo

Rocco Papaleo (2011)
David Byrne

David Byrne (2012)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (2013)
Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi

Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi (2014)
Giuliano Taviani (2015)
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Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
1940s
Life with Father –
Max Steiner

Max Steiner (1947)
The Red Shoes –
Brian Easdale (1948)
The Inspector General –
Johnny Green

Johnny Green (1949)
1950s
Sunset Boulevard –
Franz Waxman (1950)
September Affair

September Affair –
Victor Young

Victor Young (1951)
High Noon

High Noon –
Dimitri Tiomkin

Dimitri Tiomkin (1952)
On the Beach – Ernest Gold (1959)
1960s
The Alamo –
Dimitri Tiomkin

Dimitri Tiomkin (1960)
The Guns of Navarone –
Dimitri Tiomkin

Dimitri Tiomkin (1961)
To Kill a Mockingbird –
Elmer Bernstein

Elmer Bernstein (1962)
(1963)
The Fall of the Roman Empire –
Dimitri Tiomkin

Dimitri Tiomkin (1964)
Doctor Zhivago –
Maurice Jarre

Maurice Jarre (1965)
Hawaii –
Elmer Bernstein

Elmer Bernstein (1966)
Camelot –
Frederick Loewe (1967)
The Shoes of the Fisherman –
Alex North (1968)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid –
Burt Bacharach

Burt Bacharach (1969)
1970s
Love Story –
Francis Lai (1970)
Shaft –
Isaac Hayes

Isaac Hayes (1971)
The Godfather

The Godfather –
Nino Rota

Nino Rota (1972)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull –
Neil Diamond

Neil Diamond (1973)
The Little Prince – Alan Jay Lerner,
Frederick Loewe (1974)
Jaws –
John Williams

John Williams (1975)
A Star is Born – Kenneth Ascher, Paul Williams (1976)
Star Wars –
John Williams

John Williams (1977)
Midnight Express –
Giorgio Moroder

Giorgio Moroder (1978)
Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now – Carmine Coppola,
Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
1980s
The Stunt Man

The Stunt Man –
Dominic Frontiere (1980)
(1981)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial –
John Williams

John Williams (1982)
Flashdance

Flashdance –
Giorgio Moroder

Giorgio Moroder (1983)
A Passage to India –
Maurice Jarre

Maurice Jarre (1984)
Out of Africa – John Barry (1985)
The Mission –
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (1986)
The Last Emperor

The Last Emperor – David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto,
Cong Su (1987)
Gorillas in the Mist

Gorillas in the Mist –
Maurice Jarre

Maurice Jarre (1988)
The Little Mermaid –
Alan Menken
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Alan Menken (1989)
1990s
The Sheltering Sky – Richard Horowitz,
Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto (1990)
Beauty and the Beast –
Alan Menken
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Alan Menken (1991)
Aladdin –
Alan Menken
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Alan Menken (1992)
Heaven & Earth –
Kitarō
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Kitarō (1993)
The Lion King

The Lion King –
Hans Zimmer

Hans Zimmer (1994)
A Walk in the Clouds

A Walk in the Clouds –
Maurice Jarre

Maurice Jarre (1995)
The English Patient –
Gabriel Yared (1996)
Titanic –
James Horner

James Horner (1997)
The Truman Show – Burkhard Dallwitz,
Philip Glass

Philip Glass (1998)
1900 –
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (1999)
2000s
Gladiator – Lisa Gerrard,
Hans Zimmer

Hans Zimmer (2000)
Moulin Rouge! – Craig Armstrong (2001)
Frida

Frida –
Elliot Goldenthal

Elliot Goldenthal (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King –
Howard Shore

Howard Shore (2003)
The Aviator –
Howard Shore

Howard Shore (2004)
Memoirs of a Geisha –
John Williams

John Williams (2005)
The Painted Veil –
Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Desplat (2006)
Atonement –
Dario Marianelli (2007)
Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire –
A. R. Rahman

A. R. Rahman (2008)
Up –
Michael Giacchino

Michael Giacchino (2009)
2010s
The Social Network

The Social Network – Trent Reznor,
Atticus Ross

Atticus Ross (2010)
The Artist –
Ludovic Bource

Ludovic Bource (2011)
Life of Pi –
Mychael Danna (2012)
All Is Lost –
Alex Ebert

Alex Ebert (2013)
The Theory of Everything –
Jóhann Jóhannsson
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Jóhann Jóhannsson (2014)
The Hateful Eight

The Hateful Eight –
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (2015)
La La Land –
Justin Hurwitz
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Justin Hurwitz (2016)
The Shape of Water
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The Shape of Water -
Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Desplat (2017)
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Nastro d'Argento Award for Best Score
1947–1960
Renzo Rossellini (1947)
Renzo Rossellini (1948)
Alessandro Cicognini (1949)
Roman Vlad

Roman Vlad (1950)
Giovanni Fusco (1951)
Mario Nascimbene (1952)
Valentino Bucchi (1953)
Mario Zafred (1954)
Angelo Francesco Lavagnino (1955)
Angelo Francesco Lavagnino (1956)
Nino Rota

Nino Rota (1957)
Nino Rota

Nino Rota (1958)
Carlo Rustichelli (1959)
Mario Nascimbene (1960)
1961–1980
Giovanni Fusco (1961)
Giorgio Gaslini

Giorgio Gaslini (1962)
Piero Piccioni (1963)
Nino Rota

Nino Rota (1964)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (1965)
Armando Trovajoli

Armando Trovajoli (1966)
Carlo Rustichelli (1967)
Mario Nascimbene (1968)
Nino Rota

Nino Rota (1969)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (1970)
Stelvio Cipriani (1971)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (1972)
Guido De Angelis / Maurizio De Angelis (1973)
Tony Renis

Tony Renis (1974)
Giancarlo Chiaramello

Giancarlo Chiaramello (1975)
Adriano Celentano

Adriano Celentano (1976)
Fred Bongusto (1977)
Armando Trovajoli

Armando Trovajoli (1978)
Nino Rota

Nino Rota (1979)
Fred Bongusto (1980)
1981–2000
Riz Ortolani

Riz Ortolani (1981)
Lucio Dalla

Lucio Dalla / Fabio Liberatori (1982)
Angelo Branduardi (1983)
Riz Ortolani

Riz Ortolani (1984)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (1985)
Tony Esposito (1986)
Armando Trovajoli

Armando Trovajoli /
Riz Ortolani

Riz Ortolani / Giovanni Nuti (1987)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (1988)
Eugenio Bennato

Eugenio Bennato / Carlo D'Angiò (1989)
Claudio Mattone (1990)
Nicola Piovani

Nicola Piovani (1991)
Pino Daniele (1992)
Manuel De Sica
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Manuel De Sica (1993)
Federico De Robertis (1994)
Luis Enríquez Bacalov (1995)
Lucio Dalla

Lucio Dalla (1996)
Paolo Conte

Paolo Conte (1997)
Nino D'Angelo

Nino D'Angelo (1998)
Eugenio Bennato

Eugenio Bennato (1999)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (2000)
2001–present
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (2001)
Edoardo Bennato

Edoardo Bennato (2002)
Nicola Piovani

Nicola Piovani (2003)
Paolo Fresu

Paolo Fresu (2004)
Banda Osiris

Banda Osiris (2005)
Louis Siciliano /
Roy Paci

Roy Paci / Fabio Barovero / Simone Fabroni (2006)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (2007)
Paolo Buonvino

Paolo Buonvino (2008)
Paolo Buonvino

Paolo Buonvino (2009)
Rita Marcotulli

Rita Marcotulli (2010)
Negramaro

Negramaro (2011)
Franco Piersanti (2012)
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (2013)
Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi

Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi (2014)
Nicola Piovani

Nicola Piovani (2015)
Carlo Virzì (2016)
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WorldCat Identities
VIAF: 88980189
LCCN: n83187920
ISNI: 0000 0001 2142 9170
GND: 12053584X
SELIBR: 297692
SUDOC: 027990028
BNF: cb13899216x (data)
MusicBrainz: d52ac009-4ed5-4d01-97d5-8280bb7dd460
NDL: 00912421
ICCU: ITICCUCFIV31517
BNE: XX1022954
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