{{short description|Italian art director}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}} {{Infobox person | image = | name = Ferdinando Scarfiotti | birth_date = {{Birth date|1941|3|6|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Potenza Picena]], Marche, Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|1994|4|30|1941|3|6|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Los Angeles]], California, U.S. | occupation = Art director | years_active = 1968-1994 }}

'''Ferdinando Scarfiotti''' (6 March 1941 &ndash; 30 April 1994)<ref name="chicagotribune">{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1994/05/08/ferdinando-scarfiotti-53-famous-art-director/ |title=Ferdinando Scarfiotti, 53, Famous Art Director |access-date=31 July 2011|work=chicagotribune.com|first=New|last=York|date=8 May 1994}}</ref> was an Italian [[Art director#In film|art director]] and production designer.

After graduating in architecture at the University of Rome, he was approached by [[Luchino Visconti]], 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]] asked Scarfiotti to work with him on the film ''[[The Conformist]]'' followed by Visconti's ''[[Death in Venice]]''. In 1980 he moved to [[Los Angeles]], where he worked on a number of films, including ''[[American Gigolo]]'' (1980), ''[[Cat People (1982 film)|Cat People]]'' (1982) and ''[[Scarface (1983 film)|Scarface]]'' (1983).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-ferdinando-scarfiotti-1435128.html|title=Obituary: Ferdinando Scarfiotti|date=11 May 1994|website=The Independent|access-date=14 April 2019}}</ref>

Scarfiotti won a [[Bafta|BAFTA]] for Visconti's ''[[Death in Venice]]'' in 1971 and an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] in the category [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction]] for the film ''[[The Last Emperor]]'' in 1987.<ref name="Oscars1988">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1988 |title=The 60th Academy Awards (1988) Nominees and Winners |access-date=31 July 2011|work=oscars.org}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''[[The Conformist]]'' (1970) * ''[[Death in Venice (film)|Death in Venice]]'' (1971) *''[[Daisy Miller (1974 film)|Daisy Miller]]'' (1974) * ''[[American Gigolo]]'' (1980) * ''[[Cat People (1982 film)|Cat People]]'' (1982) * ''[[Scarface (1983 film)|Scarface]]'' (1983) * ''[[The Last Emperor]]'' (1987) *''[[Fair Game (1988 film)|Fair Game]]'' (1988) * ''[[The Sheltering Sky (film)|The Sheltering Sky]]'' (1990) * ''[[Toys (film)|Toys]]'' (1992) <ref name="Oscars1993">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1993 |title=The 65th Academy Awards (1993) Nominees and Winners |access-date=3 August 2011|work=oscars.org}}</ref>

==See also== * [[Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0769162}}

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