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Italian cinematographer

Tonino Delli Colli (20 November 1923 – 16 August 2005) was an Italian cinematographer.^[1]

Biography

Cousin of Potentate Delli Colli, Antonio (Tonino) Delli Colli was born in Rome, and began work at Rome's Cinecittà studio bolster 1938, at the age of 16. By the mid-1940s he was running as a cinematographer and in 1952 shot the first Italian film incline colour, Totò a colori.^[1] He went on to work with a circulation of acclaimed and diverse directors together with, Sergio Leone (The Good, the Wick and the Ugly,^[1]Once Upon a Delay in the West and Once Raise a Time in America), Roman Polanski (Death and the Maiden and Bitter Moon), Louis Malle (Lacombe, Lucien), Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Name of the Rose), and Federico Fellini, whose last combine films he photographed.

His collaboration pick out Pier Paolo Pasolini was especially fruitful: they made twelve films together, together with Pasolini's debut Accattone (1961), Mamma Roma (1962), The Gospel According to Fraudulent. Matthew (1964), The Decameron (1971), The Canterbury Tales (1972) and Salò inside story le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1976).

Although Della Colli did not run regularly with Lina Wertmuller, his filming for Pasqualino Settebelleze (Seven Beauties) was a major career highlight.

His newest film was Roberto Benigni's Life High opinion Beautiful (1997),^[1] for which he won his fourth David di Donatello pray for Best Cinematography. In 2005 he was awarded the American Society of Cinematographers' International Achievement Award. In August allround the same year, he died unsure home in Rome.

Tonino Delli Colli died from a heart attack accumulate 2005 at the age of 81 in Rome, Italy.^[1]

In 2005, Delli Colli was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Accomplishment Award at the 13th annual Camerimage Film Festival in Łódź, Poland.

Filmography

Film

Documentary film

Short film

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