Nicola Piovani

Italian film composer Nicola Piovani vaulted to worldwide renown via his Academy Award-winning score for the 1998 feature La Vita è Bella, better recognized to UNITED STATES audiences as Roberto Benigni’s Lifestyle Is Beautiful. Delivered May 26, 1946, in Rome, Piovani received his level in piano from Milan’s Verdi Conservatory, and afterwards researched orchestration under Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis prior to making his cinematic debut with 1969’s N.P. Il Segreto. Not merely did Piovani gain his first wide-spread see for his efforts to Marco Bellocchio’s 1970 work Nel Nome del Padre, however the task inaugurated a continuing creative collaboration using the movie director that included the photos Salto Nel Vuoto and Matti da Slegare. The composer was also a preferred from the brothers Taviani (La Notte di San Lorenzo), Mario Monicelli (Speriamo Che Sia Femmina), Nanni Moretti (Caro Diario), as well as the renowned Federico Fellini, a collaboration that included the global strikes Intervista and Ginger e Fred. Despite his developing renown, gossips circulated that Piovani was actually bit more than an alias for Italian film maestro Ennio Morricone, a misunderstanding Piovani often selects to exploit during his general public looks. Such gossip mainly subsided when 1998’s Holocaust dream La Vita è Bella gained the composer his 1st Oscar, although he dropped from a Grammy Honor to composer Randy Newman. Piovani also received the Ciak d’Oro in 2001 for his focus on Moretti’s La Stanza del Figlio.