Nicola Piovani

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1946-05-26 (78 years old)

Place of Birth Rome, Italy

Also Known As Nikola Piovani

Nicola Piovani

Biography

Nicola Piovani (born 26 May 1946) is an Italian light-classical musician, theater and film score composer. In 1998, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score for Roberto Benigni's film Life Is Beautiful (1997). After high school, Piovani enrolled at the Sapienza University of Rome, receiving his degree in piano from the Verdi Conservatory in Milan in 1967, and later studied orchestration under the Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis. In 1971 and 1973 collaborated for the music of two albums of the songwriter Fabrizio De André: Storia di un impiegato and Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo. In 2008, after De André departure, Piovani wrote the music for the film Amore che vieni, amore che vai, inspired by a novel of De André himself, Un destino ridicolo. Among his more popular works is the score for the Federico Fellini film Intervista, his second of three collaborations with the famous director, the others being Ginger e Fred (Ginger and Fred in English) and La voce della luna (The Voice of the Moon). Years later, he composed a ballet titled Balletto Fellini. In 2000, his Academy Award-winning score for Life Is Beautiful (La Vita è bella) was further nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media" category, losing to Randy Newman. In 2005, he was a member of the jury at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival. In light of his recent work with French directors, notably Danièle Thompson, Philippe Lioret, and Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, the French Minister of Culture gave him the title of Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres on 21 May 2008 at the Cannes Film Festival. To date, Piovani has over 130 film scores to his credit, including films such as Slap the Monster on Page One (1972), The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974), Flavia the Heretic (1974), Le Orme (1975), A Leap in the Dark (1980) The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982), and Kaos (1984). The music for the latter is considered by many as one of the best film scores ever done. However, he is reported to believe that "Too many film scores make a composer a hack, but in the theatre music is above all craftsmanship". Accordingly, he continues to work in musical theatre, and also composes concert and chamber music. Piovani also composed the first opera Amorosa presenza on a libretto by Aisha Cerami and Nicola Piovani, based on the novel by Vincenzo Cerami and is performed at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste in January 2022. In 2023, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Academy. In 2024, Piovani composed the score for Loris Lai's debut feature film, How Kids Roll. Source: Article "Nicola Piovani" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Sound

2024
Accattaroma

as Music

2023
2023
My Paper Dolls

as Original Music Composer

2022
Lord of the Ants

as Original Music Composer

2022
Leonora addio

as Music

2021
Anaïs in Love

as Original Music Composer

2021
I Fratelli De Filippo

as Original Music Composer

2020
The Best Years

as Original Music Composer

2020
Hammamet

as Original Music Composer

2020
2019
The Traitor

as Original Music Composer

2019
Mi chiamo Altan e faccio vignette

as Original Music Composer

2019
Adrian

as Music

2018
There's No Place Like Home

as Original Music Composer

2018
2018
Una festa esagerata

as Original Music Composer

2017
2017
Daydreams

as Music

2016
The Confessions

as Original Music Composer

2016
In arte Nino

as Original Music Composer

2015
Banana

as Original Music Composer

2015
Hungry Hearts

as Original Music Composer

2015
L'amore non perdona

as Original Music Composer

2013
2012
Cherry on the Cake

as Original Music Composer

2012
Le Chef

as Original Music Composer

2011
All at Sea

as Music

2009
The Cézanne Affair

as Original Music Composer

2009
Welcome

as Original Music Composer

2009
The Big Dream

as Music

2009
Queen to Play

as Music

2007
Amore che vieni, amore che vai

as Original Music Composer

2007
Odette Toulemonde

as Original Music Composer

2006
Don't Worry, I'm Fine

as Original Music Composer

2006
Avenue Montaigne

as Original Music Composer

2005
The Tiger and the Snow

as Original Music Composer

2005
2004
The Light

as Original Music Composer

2004
L'ombra cinese

as Original Music Composer

2004
La trappola di Maigret

as Original Music Composer

2003
Sams in Gefahr

as Original Music Composer

2002
Pinocchio

as Original Music Composer

2002
Il nostro matrimonio è in crisi

as Original Music Composer

2001
The Slurb

as Original Music Composer

2001
The Son's Room

as Original Music Composer

2000
Viper

as Original Music Composer

2000
La carbonara

as Original Music Composer

2000
1999
La fame e la sete

as Original Music Composer

1999
Running Free

as Original Music Composer

1999
1997
Life Is Beautiful

as Original Music Composer

1997
Camere da letto

as Original Music Composer

1997
Uomo d'acqua dolce

as Original Music Composer

1997
The Impostor

as Original Music Composer

1997
Santo Stefano

as Sound

1997
1996
La mia generazione

as Original Music Composer

1995
1995
1995
1995
Bad Kid

as Original Music Composer

1994
The Tit & the Moon

as Original Music Composer

1994
Kim Novak Is on the Phone

as Original Music Composer

1994
A che punto è la notte

as Original Music Composer

1994
Benito: The Rise and Fall of Mussolini

as Original Music Composer

1994
A che punto è la notte

as Original Music Composer

1993
Golden Balls

as Music

1993
Una questione privata

as Original Music Composer

1993
Living Naked

as Original Music Composer

1993
Caro diario

as Original Music Composer

1993
Amok

as Original Music Composer

1992
Jamon Jamon

as Original Music Composer

1992
Utz

as Original Music Composer

1991
1991
Out of Life

as Original Music Composer

1990
The Voice of the Moon

as Original Music Composer

1990
The Mountain

as Original Music Composer

1990
Traces of an Amorous Life

as Original Music Composer

1990
Dark Illness

as Conductor

1990
Dark Illness

as Original Music Composer

1990
1990
Night Sun

as Original Music Composer

1989
La moglie ingenua e il marito malato

as Original Music Composer

1989
1989
1989
12 Directors for 12 Cities

as Original Music Composer

1989
Bologna

as Music Arranger

1989
'o Re

as Original Music Composer

1989
I 7 Re di Roma

as Music Director

1989
Australia

as Music

1989
La soule

as Original Music Composer

1988
It's Happening Tomorrow

as Original Music Composer

1988
Disamistade

as Music

1988
Manifesto

as Original Music Composer

1988
I cammelli

as Original Music Composer

1988
1987
Intervista

as Music Arranger

1987
Intervista

as Original Music Composer

1987
Intervista

as Conductor

1987
The Bride Was Beautiful

as Original Music Composer

1986
The Professor

as Original Music Composer

1986
The Professor

as Conductor

1986
1986
Let's Hope It's a Girl

as Original Music Composer

1986
Ginger and Fred

as Conductor

1986
Ginger and Fred

as Original Music Composer

1985
Secrets Secrets

as Original Music Composer

1985
The Mass Is Ended

as Original Music Composer

1985
The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal

as Original Music Composer

1984
Kaos

as Original Music Composer

1984
Kaos

as Conductor

1984
Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno

as Original Music Composer

1982
The Night of the Shooting Stars

as Original Music Composer

1982
The Eyes, the Mouth

as Original Music Composer

1982
1981
The Marquis of Grillo

as Original Music Composer

1981
The Soup

as Original Music Composer

1980
A Leap in the Dark

as Original Music Composer

1980
1977
Sun of the Hyenas

as Original Music Composer

1977
The Seagull

as Conductor

1977
The Seagull

as Music

1976
Victory March

as Original Music Composer

1975
Footprints on the Moon

as Original Music Composer

1975
1975
1974
1974
The Perfume of the Lady in Black

as Original Music Composer

1974
Flavia the Heretic

as Original Music Composer

1974
Vermisat

as Original Music Composer

1973
Daniele and Maria

as Original Music Composer

1972
Slap the Monster on Page One

as Original Music Composer

1971
In the Name of the Father

as Original Music Composer