Ferdinando Scarfiotti (6 March 1941 – 30 April 1994) was an Italian

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and production designer. After graduating in architecture at the University of Rome, he was approached by

Luchino Visconti Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (; 2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976) was an Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter. He was one of the fathers of Italian neorealism, cinematic neorealism, but later ...

, who asked him to design his stage production of '' La Traviata'' for the 1963 Spoleto Festival. After working in opera theatre for over a decade, director

Bernardo Bertolucci Bernardo Bertolucci ( ; ; 16 March 1941 – 26 November 2018) was an Italian film director and screenwriter with a career that spanned 50 years. Considered one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema, Bertolucci's work achieved inte ...

asked Scarfiotti to work with him on the film '' The Conformist'' followed by Visconti's ''

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''. In 1980 he moved to

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, where he worked on a number of films, including ''

American Gigolo ''American Gigolo'' is a 1980 American neo-noir crime drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader, and starring Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton. It tells the story of a high-priced escort in Los Angeles (Gere) who becomes romantically ...

'' (1980), '' Cat People'' (1982) and '' Scarface'' (1983). Scarfiotti won a

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for Visconti's ''

'' in 1971 and an

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in the category Best Art Direction for the film ''

The Last Emperor ''The Last Emperor'' () is a 1987 epic biographical drama film about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China. It is directed by Bernardo Bertolucci from a screenplay he co-wrote with Mark Peploe, which was adapted from Puyi's 1964 auto ...

'' in 1987.

Selected filmography

* '' The Conformist'' (1970) * ''

'' (1971) *'' Daisy Miller'' (1974) * ''

'' (1980) * '' Cat People'' (1982) * '' Scarface'' (1983) * ''

'' (1987) *'' Fair Game'' (1988) * ''

The Sheltering Sky ''The Sheltering Sky'' is a 1949 novel of alienation and existential despair by American writer and composer Paul Bowles. Plot The story centers on Port Moresby and his wife Kit, a married couple originally from New York who travel to the Nor ...

'' (1990) * ''

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'' (1992)

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* 1941 births 1994 deaths Best Art Direction Academy Award winners Best Production Design BAFTA Award winners Ciak d'oro winners David di Donatello winners Italian art directors Italian production designers People from the Province of Macerata {{artdirector-stub

Selected filmography

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