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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Giovanni "Nino" Rota (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974). During his long career Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema. He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979—an average of three scores each year over a 46-year period, and in his most productive period from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s he wrote as many as ten scores every year, and sometimes...
Known for
The GodfatherMovie • 1972
The Godfather Part IIMovie • 1974
The Godfather Part IIIMovie • 1990
Romeo and JulietMovie • 1968
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for TelevisionSeries • 1977
RomaMovie • 1972
Death on the NileMovie • 1978
8½Movie • 1963
La Dolce VitaMovie • 1960
The LeopardMovie • 1963
The ClownsMovie • 1970
Nights of CabiriaMovie • 1957
Rocco and His BrothersMovie • 1960
War and PeaceMovie • 1956
I VitelloniMovie • 1953
White NightsMovie • 1957
Purple NoonMovie • 1960
The Taming of the ShrewMovie • 1967
AmarcordMovie • 1973
The White SheikMovie • 1952
SatyriconMovie • 1969
WaterlooMovie • 1970
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980Movie • 1992
Spirits of the DeadMovie • 1968