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Giovanni "Nino" Rota (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 films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving 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. He also composed the music for many theatre productions by Visconti, Zeffirelli and Eduardo De Filippo as well as maintaining a long teaching career at the Liceo Musicale in Bari, Italy, where he was the director for almost 30 years.
Academy Awards
Best Original Dramatic Score
Golden Globe Awards
Best Original Score
British Academy Film Awards
Best Original Music
Known For
The Godfather
(1972)
Original Music Composer
The Godfather Part II
(1974)
Original Music Composer
Romeo and Juliet
(1968)
Original Music Composer
La Dolce Vita
(1960)
Original Music Composer
The Leopard
(1963)
Original Music Composer and Music Arranger
Boccaccio '70
(1962)
Original Music Composer
8½
(1963)
Original Music Composer
Purple Noon
(1960)
Original Music Composer
Death on the Nile
(1978)
Original Music Composer
La Strada
(1954)
Original Music Composer
Waterloo
(1970)
Music
Spirits of the Dead
(1968)
Original Music Composer
Fellini Satyricon
(1969)
Original Music Composer
War and Peace
(1956)
Original Music Composer
Amarcord
(1973)
Original Music Composer
I Vitelloni
(1953)
Original Music Composer
Full Filmography
Sound
Tourist Train
(1933)
Original Music Composer
Giorno di nozze
(1942)
Original Music Composer
Daddy's Little Devil
(1943)
Music
Zazà
(1944)
Original Music Composer
Woman of the Mountains
(1944)
Original Music Composer
La freccia nel fianco
(1945)
Original Music Composer
The Misery of Mr. Travet
(1945)
Original Music Composer
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
(1945)
Original Music Composer
Un americano in vacanza
(1946)
Original Music Composer
Rome: Free City
(1946)
Original Music Composer
Albergo Luna, camera 34
(1946)
Music
Professor, My Son
(1946)
Original Music Composer
How I Lost the War
(1947)
Original Music Composer
To Live in Peace
(1947)
Original Music Composer
Daniele Cortis
(1947)
Original Music Composer
When Love Calls
(1947)
Music
Toto Tours Italy
(1948)
Original Music Composer
Woman Trouble
(1948)
Original Music Composer
Without Pity
(1948)
Original Music Composer
Arrivederci, papà!
(1948)
Original Music Composer
Under the Sun of Rome
(1948)
Original Music Composer
Guaglio
(1948)
Original Music Composer
Escape to France
(1948)
Original Music Composer
Lovers Without Love
(1948)
Original Music Composer
L'eroe della strada
(1948)
Original Music Composer
Obsession
(1949)
Original Music Composer
Come scopersi l'America
(1949)
Original Music Composer
The Pirates of Capri
(1949)
Original Music Composer
Children of Chance
(1949)
Music
Campane a martello
(1949)
Original Music Composer
È arrivato il Cavaliere
(1950)
Original Music Composer
A Dog’s Life
(1950)
Original Music Composer
Her Favourite Husband
(1950)
Original Music Composer
Side Street Story
(1950)
Original Music Composer
The King's Guerrillas
(1950)
Original Music Composer
It's Forever Springtime
(1950)
Original Music Composer
Il monello della strada
(1950)
Original Music Composer
Twelve Hours to Live
(1950)
Music
Valley of the Eagles
(1951)
Original Music Composer
It's Him!... Yes! Yes!
(1951)
Original Music Composer
Filumena Marturano
(1951)
Original Music Composer
White Corridors
(1951)
Original Music Composer
Anna
(1951)
Original Music Composer
Napoleone
(1951)
Music
Honeymoon Deferred
(1951)
Original Music Composer
The White Sheik
(1952)
Original Music Composer
The Queen of Sheba
(1952)
Original Music Composer
Venetian Bird
(1952)
Original Music Composer
Toto and the Kings of Rome
(1952)
Original Music Composer
Marito e Moglie
(1952)
Original Music Composer
Ragazze da marito
(1952)
Original Music Composer
Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino
(1952)
Original Music Composer
I tre corsari
(1952)
Original Music Composer
Noi due soli
(1952)
Original Music Composer
Un ladro in paradiso
(1952)
Original Music Composer
Something Money Can't Buy
(1952)
Music
I Vitelloni
(1953)
Original Music Composer
Lo scocciatore
(1953)
Original Music Composer
Hell Raiders of the Deep
(1953)
Original Music Composer
The Ship of Condemned Women
(1953)
Original Music Composer
Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair
(1953)
Original Music Composer
The Wild Oat
(1953)
Music
Gli uomini, che mascalzoni!
(1953)
Music
Good Folk's Sunday
(1953)
Original Music Composer
Easy Years
(1953)
Original Music Composer
Riscatto
(1953)
Original Music Composer
La Strada
(1954)
Original Music Composer
The Stranger's Hand
(1954)
Music
100 Years of Love
(1954)
Original Music Composer
Modern Virgin
(1954)
Original Music Composer
Loves of Three Queens
(1954)
Music
Star of India
(1954)
Music
Passionately
(1954)
Original Music Composer
The Two Orphans
(1954)
Original Music Composer
Divisione Folgore
(1954)
Original Music Composer
Submarine Attack
(1954)
Original Music Composer
Mambo
(1954)
Original Music Composer
Io piaccio
(1955)
Music
La bella di Roma
(1955)
Original Music Composer
The Swindle
(1955)
Original Music Composer
A Hero of Our Times
(1955)
Original Music Composer
It Happened in the Penitentiary
(1955)
Original Music Composer
War and Peace
(1956)
Original Music Composer
Le Notti Bianche
(1957)
Original Music Composer
Doctor and the Healer
(1957)
Original Music Composer
Nights of Cabiria
(1957)
Original Music Composer
This Angry Age
(1957)
Original Music Composer
Italia piccola
(1957)
Music
The Most Wonderful Moment
(1957)
Original Music Composer
City at Night
(1958)
Original Music Composer
The Italians They Are Crazy
(1958)
Music
Fortunella
(1958)
Original Music Composer
The Law Is the Law
(1958)
Original Music Composer
Il Pranzo di Natale di Mario Soldati
(1958)
Original Music Composer
Piece of the Sky
(1958)
Original Music Composer
The Great War
(1959)
Original Music Composer
La Dolce Vita
(1960)
Original Music Composer
Purple Noon
(1960)
Original Music Composer
Rocco and His Brothers
(1960)
Original Music Composer
Ghosts of Rome
(1961)
Original Music Composer
The Best of Enemies
(1961)
Original Music Composer
The Brigand
(1961)
Original Music Composer
The Reluctant Saint
(1962)
Music
Boccaccio '70
(1962)
Original Music Composer
8½
(1963)
Original Music Composer
The Leopard
(1963)
Original Music Composer and Music Arranger
The Teacher from Vigevano
(1963)
Original Music Composer
Juliet of the Spirits
(1965)
Original Music Composer
Oggi, domani, dopodomani
(1965)
Original Music Composer
Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand
(1966)
Original Music Composer
The Taming of the Shrew
(1967)
Original Music Composer
Romeo and Juliet
(1968)
Original Music Composer
Spirits of the Dead
(1968)
Original Music Composer
Fellini Satyricon
(1969)
Original Music Composer
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook
(1969)
Original Music Composer
Waterloo
(1970)
Music
The Clowns
(1970)
Original Music Composer
Roma
(1972)
Original Music Composer
The Godfather
(1972)
Original Music Composer
Amarcord
(1973)
Original Music Composer
Sunset Sunrise
(1973)
Music
Love and Anarchy
(1973)
Original Music Composer
The Godfather Part II
(1974)
Original Music Composer
The Abdication
(1974)
Music
The Secret Diary of 'Amarcord'
(1974)
Music
E il Casanova di Fellini?
(1975)
Music
Dear Michele
(1976)
Original Music Composer
Fellini's Casanova
(1976)
Original Music Composer
Las alegres chicas de 'El Molino'
(1977)
Music
Death on the Nile
(1978)
Original Music Composer
Contact
(1978)
Music
Orchestra Rehearsal
(1978)
Original Music Composer
Hurricane
(1979)
Original Music Composer
The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic
(1981)
Original Music Composer
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
(1985)
Original Music Composer
Chikan densha: Gusshori nurashite
(1988)
Sound
The Lion with the White Beard
(1995)
Music
Red Market
(1998)
Music
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
(2016)
Music
The Morricone Duel: The Most Dangerous Concert Ever
(2018)
Music
Hotzzo!
(2019)
Music
Acting
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook
(1969)
Self
The Secret Diary of 'Amarcord'
(1974)
Self
Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert
(1993)
Self (archive footage)
A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota
(1994)
Self (archive footage)
The Magic of Fellini
(2002)
Self (archive footage)
Camera
Crew