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Tonino Delli Colli

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tonino Delli Colli (20 November 1923 – 16 August 2005) was an Italian cinematographer. Cousin of Franco Delli Colli, Antonio (Tonino) Delli Colli was born in Rome, and began work at Rome's Cinecittà studio in 1938, at the age of sixteen. By the mid-1940s he was working as a cinematographer and in 1952 shot the first Italian film in colour, Totò a colori. He went on to work with a number of acclaimed and diverse directors including, Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon 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 three films he photographed. His collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini was especially fruitful: they made twelve films together, including Pasolini's debut Accattone (1961), Mamma Roma (1962), The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), The Decameron (1971), The Canterbury Tales (1972) and Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1976). His last film was Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful (1997), for which he won his fourth David di Donatello for Best Cinematography. In 2005 he was awarded the American Society of Cinematographers' International Achievement Award. In August of the same year, he died at home in Rome. Tonino Delli Colli died from a heart attack in 2005 at the age of 81 in Rome, Italy. In 2005, Delli Colli was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th annual Camerimage Film Festival in Łódź, Poland.  

Born

Rome, Italy on 20th November 1922

Died

16th August 2005

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The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Self
Intervista Image
Intervista
Tonino Delli Colli (uncredited)
I'm Photogenic Image
I'm Photogenic
Director of Photography (uncredited)
Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer Image
Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer
Himself
The Wages of Sin Image
The Wages of Sin
Self - DOP
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things Image
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Self
La rosa dei nomi Image
La rosa dei nomi
Self
An Opera of Violence Image
An Opera of Violence
Self - DOP
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema Image
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Self - DOP