Giuseppe Rotunno

Giuseppe Rotunno was born on Mar 19, 1923 in Italy. Giuseppe Rotunno's big-screen debut came with Umberto D. directed by Vittorio De Sica in 1952. Giuseppe Rotunno is known for Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember directed by Anna Maria Tatò, Marcello Mastroianni stars as Self and Renato Berta as Self. Giuseppe Rotunno has got 23 awards and 18 nominations so far. The most recent award Giuseppe Rotunno achieved is International Cinematographers' Film Festival Manaki Brothers. The upcoming new movie Giuseppe Rotunno plays is Gladiator Games which will be released on Sep 21, 2010.

Giuseppe 'Peppino' Rotunno entered the film industry as a still photographer at Cinecitta but lost his job due to his anti-fascist views. Conscripted and sent to Greece in 1942, he then served as a newsreel cameraman with the Italian army film unit. A year later, he was captured during the German occupation of Greece and spent two years internment in Germany. Freed by US troops in April 1945, Rotunno returned to Italy. During the following decade, he worked his way up the ladder from a humbly paid assistant cameraman to director of photography. The romantic comedy Pain, amour, ainsi soit-il (1955) was the first motion picture he shot in that capacity and he has since worked with some of Italy's leading post-war directors. His most famous collaborations were with Luchino Visconti, whom he regarded as his mentor (Les nuits blanches (1957), Rocco et ses frères (1960), Le Guépard (1963)) and with Federico Fellini (Fellini Satyricon (1969), Amarcord (1973)). Rotunno acquired a well-deserved reputation for creating realistic, opulent, nostalgic or uncanny atmospheres through ingenious use of lighting techniques. His work in the international field has included the Ava Gardner starrers La maja nue (1958) and L'ange pourpre (1960), Stanley Kramer's Le Dernier Rivage (1959), Arthur Hiller's L'homme de la Manche (1972), Bob Fosse's Que le spectacle commence... (1979) (1981 BAFTA winner and 1980 Oscar nominee) and the remake of Sabrina (1995), starring Harrison Ford. In 1966, Rotunno became the first non-US citizen admitted to join the American Society of Cinematographers. From 1988, he taught at the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome where he died on February 7 2021 at the age of 97..