Sound
Nicola Piovani
IT, HU, EN, AR cinema · 171 credits
Born
26 May 1946 (age 80)
Birthplace
Rome, Italy
Also known as Nikola Piovani
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
Filmography
Cento e oltre. Puccini e noi
as Nicola Piovani
Manara
as Sè stesso
Brunello: The Gracious Visionary
Sound, Original Music Composer
Il Labirinto di Creta
Actor, Original Music Composer, Conductor
Natale in casa Cupiello
Compositor
How Kids Roll
Original Music Composer
My Paper Dolls
Original Music Composer
No Dogs or Italians Allowed
Original Music Composer
Ennio
as Self
Il sangue e la parola - Non la spada ma la parola illumini la via
Actor, Original Music Composer
Amorosa presenza
Actor, Original Music Composer, Conductor
Lord of the Ants
Original Music Composer
Fellinopolis
as Self - Composer
Anaïs in Love
Original Music Composer
I fratelli De Filippo
Original Music Composer
The Best Years
Original Music Composer
Hammamet
Original Music Composer
Sinfonia delle Stagioni
Actor, Original Music Composer
The Traitor
Original Music Composer
Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten
Music, Original Music Composer
Mi chiamo Altan e faccio vignette
Original Music Composer
There's No Place Like Home
Original Music Composer
Una festa esagerata
Original Music Composer
Nicola Piovani con l'Orchestra Rai
Actor, Original Music Composer
The Confessions
Original Music Composer
In arte Nino
Original Music Composer
Banana
Original Music Composer
Hungry Hearts
Original Music Composer
L'amore non perdona
Original Music Composer
La trattativa
Original Music Composer
Cherry on the Cake
Original Music Composer
Le Chef
Original Music Composer
Boris: The Film
as Self
The Cézanne Affair
Original Music Composer
Welcome
Original Music Composer
Change of Plans
Original Music Composer
The Big Dream
Original Music Composer
Ballerina
Original Music Composer
Amore che vieni, amore che vai
Original Music Composer
Odette Toulemonde
Original Music Composer
Don't Worry, I'm Fine
Original Music Composer
Avenue Montaigne
Original Music Composer
Viva Zapatero!
as Self (uncredited)
The Tiger and the Snow
Original Music Composer
The Light
Original Music Composer
L'ombra cinese
Original Music Composer
La trappola di Maigret
Original Music Composer
My Magical Friend Sams
Original Music Composer
Fellini's TV Advertisements
Original Music Composer
The Magic of Fellini
as Self (archive footage)
Pinocchio
Original Music Composer
Il nostro matrimonio è in crisi
Original Music Composer
The Slurb
Original Music Composer
The Son's Room
Original Music Composer
Viper
Original Music Composer
La carbonara
Original Music Composer
La fame e la sete
Original Music Composer
Running Free
Original Music Composer
Love in the Mirror
Original Music Composer
No Trains No Planes
Original Music Composer
Sweet Idleness
Original Music Composer
Life Is Beautiful
Original Music Composer
Camere da letto
Original Music Composer
Freshwater Man
Original Music Composer
The Impostor
Original Music Composer
La mia generazione
Original Music Composer
The Flying Dutchman
Music, Original Music Composer
Bad Kid
Original Music Composer
A Month by the Lake
Original Music Composer
The Tit and the Moon
Original Music Composer
Kim Novak Is on the Phone
Original Music Composer
I Don't Want to Talk About It
Music, Conductor
Una questione privata
1993
Una questione privata
Original Music Composer
Living Naked
Original Music Composer
Caro diario
Original Music Composer
Amok
Original Music Composer
Per amore, solo per amore
Original Music Composer
Jamon Jamon
Original Music Composer
Utz
Original Music Composer
Out of Life
Original Music Composer
The Siege of Venice
Original Music Composer
The Voice of the Moon
Original Music Composer
The Mountain
Original Music Composer
Traces of an Amorous Life
Original Music Composer
Dark Illness
Conductor, Original Music Composer
Night Sun
Original Music Composer
In nome del popolo sovrano
Original Music Composer
La moglie ingenua e il marito malato
Original Music Composer
12 Directors for 12 Cities
Original Music Composer
Bologna
1989
Bologna
Music Arranger
'o Re
Original Music Composer
I 7 Re di Roma
Music Director
La soule
Original Music Composer
Australia
Original Music Composer
Palombella rossa
Original Music Composer
It's Happening Tomorrow
Original Music Composer
Manifesto
Original Music Composer
I cammelli
Original Music Composer
Intervista
Original Music Composer, Conductor, Music Arranger
The Bride Was Beautiful
Original Music Composer
The Professor
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Let's Hope It's a Girl
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Ginger and Fred
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Exploits of a Young Don Juan
Original Music Composer
Secrets Secrets
Original Music Composer
The Mass Is Ended
Original Music Composer
The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal
Original Music Composer
Kaos
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno
Original Music Composer
The Night of the Shooting Stars
Original Music Composer
The Eyes, the Mouth
Original Music Composer
Blow to the Heart
Original Music Composer
The Marquis of Grillo
Original Music Composer
The Soup
Original Music Composer
A Leap in the Dark
Original Music Composer
Vacation in Val Trebbia
Original Music Composer
Sun of the Hyenas
Original Music Composer
The Seagull
Music, Conductor
In the Highest Heavens
Original Music Composer
Victory March
Original Music Composer
Footprints on the Moon
Original Music Composer
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Flavia the Heretic
Original Music Composer
Vermisat
Original Music Composer
Morel's Invention
Original Music Composer
Daniele e Maria
1973
Daniele and Maria
Original Music Composer
Slap the Monster on Page One
Original Music Composer
N.P. - The Secret
Original Music Composer
In the Name of the Father
Original Music Composer
Tin Girl
Original Music Composer