Cast & creator
Dante Ferretti
Best known for German Film Award, Shutter Island, The Oscars
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dante Ferretti (Italian pronunciation: [ˌdante ferˈretti], born 26 February 1943) is an Italian production designer, art director and costume designer. Throughout his career, Ferretti has worked with many great directors, both American and Italian, including Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Franco Zeffirelli, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Anthony Minghella, and Tim Burton. He frequently collaborates with his wife, set decorator Francesca Lo Schiavo. Ferretti was a protégé of Federico Fellini, and worked under him for five films. He also had a five-film collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini and later developed a very close professional relationship with Martin Scorsese, designing seven of his last eight movies. In 2008, he designed the set for Howard Shore's opera The Fly, directed by David Cronenberg, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Ferretti has won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction; for The Aviator, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Hugo. He had seven previous nominations. In addition, he was nominated for Best Costume Design for Kundun. He has also won three BAFTA Awards. In 2012, he designed the decor for Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto, a restaurant on Manhattan's Upper East Side. For the 2015 Expo held in Milan, Italy Ferretti was commissioned to do a series of statues articulating the concept ""Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life". He is member of the Italy-USA Foundation.
Also known as: Dante Feretti
103
film credits
5
television credits
25
1951–2025 · acting roles
6.5
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (108)
Showing 108 of 108 credits
German Film Award
Self
1951
Shutter Island
Production Design
2010
The Oscars
Self
1953
Cinderella
Production Design
2015
Meet Joe Black
Production Design
1998
Casino
Production Design
1995
Interview with the Vampire
Production Design
1994
Seventh Son
Production Design
2014
The Aviator
Production Design
2004
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Production Design
2007
Gangs of New York
Production Design
2002
Silence
Production Design
2016Silence
Costume Design
2016
Cold Mountain
Production Design
2003
The Name of the Rose
Production Design
1986
Hugo
Production Design
2011
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Production Design
1988
The Age of Innocence
Production Design
1993
Bringing Out the Dead
Production Design
1999
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Production Design
1976
The Secret of the Sahara
Production Design
1988
The Black Dahlia
Production Design
2006
The Canterbury Tales
Production Design
1972Quelli che il cinema
Self
2025
Anzio
Assistant Art Director
1968
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Assistant Production Design
1965
Juliet & Romeo
Production Design
2025
Titus
Production Design
1999
Kundun
Costume Design
1997Kundun
Production Design
1997
The Decameron
Art Direction
1971
Arabian Nights
Production Design
1974
Hamlet
Production Design
1990
Tales of Ordinary Madness
Production Design
1981
Oedipus Rex
Assistant Production Design
1967
City of Women
Production Design
1980
Beach House
Production Design
1977
And the Ship Sails On
Production Design
1983
Valentino: The Last Emperor
Self
2008
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Production Design
1971
The Future Is Woman
Production Design
1984
Dr. M
Production Design
1990
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Self (archive footage)
2022
That Night of Varennes
Production Design
1982
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
Self - art director
2024
Medea
Production Design
1969Medea
Set Decoration
1969
The Voice of the Moon
Production Design
1990
The Skin
Production Design
1981
Good King Dagobert
Production Design
1984
Till Marriage Do Us Part
Production Design
1974Till Marriage Do Us Part
Costume Design
1974
Ginger and Fred
Production Design
1986
Slap the Monster on Page One
Production Design
1972
La rosa dei nomi
Self
1987
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Self - Chef décorateur
2003
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
Assistant Set Designer
1968
The Witch
Assistant Production Design
1966Midnight Vendetta
Production Design
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
Self
1993
Orchestra Rehearsal
Production Design
1979
Don Camillo in Moscow
Assistant Production Design
1965
The Possessed
Assistant Production Design
1965
Break Up
Production Design
1978
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Self
2005
The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
Self - Production Designer
2008
The Treasure of San Gennaro
Assistant Production Design
1966
The Hawks and the Sparrows
Assistant Production Design
1966
Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
Self
2010
Beyond the Door
Art Direction
1982Beyond the Door
Production Design
1982
Kiss the Other Sheik
Set Decoration
1965The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Self
1986
Fellinopolis
Self - Production Designer
2021
Soldier's Girl
Assistant Production Design
1967
The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha
Production Design
2005
Bye Bye Monkey
Production Design
1978
Aida
Set Designer
2012
One Way or Another
Production Design
1976
Blow Hot, Blow Cold
Assistant Production Design
1969
Somewhere Beyond Love
Production Design
1974
Werther
Director
2025Werther
Costume Designer
2025Werther
Set Designer
2025
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
Self
2017
I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
Production Design
1971
The Sleazy Uncle
Production Design
1989
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
Self
2012
The Swindlers
Set Decoration
1963
Bawdy Tales
Production Design
1973Diabolik - La serie
Set Designer
Pianoforte
Production Design
1985
Ciao, Federico!
Self (uncredited)
1970
The Isle of Medea
Self
2016
Mora
Propriétaire
1982
The Cat
Production Design
1977
Sur les traces de Fellini
2013
The Monster
Production Design
1977The Year of Wonders
Production Design
The Voyeur
Production Design
1970
The Soup
Production Design
1981
La Presidentessa
Production Design
1977
Medea: On-Set Memories
2004
The Girl from Parma
Assistant Production Design
1963
In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese
Self
1998Pasolini maestro corsaro
2015
Fellini Forward
Self
2021
Handmade Cinema
Se stesso
2012