ToninoDelliColli, the versatile Italian cinematographer whose work ranged from Sergio Leone's classic spaghetti western ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" to Roberto Benigni's ''Life is Beautiful," died Aug. 16 at his home in Rome of a heart attack.
DelliColli was a master at creating special atmospheres with lighting and, especially for Leone, mixing long shots and extreme close-ups to emphasize individual characters.
DelliColli was particularly associated with Pasolini, after volunteering to work for scale on the 1961 ''Accattone!" in order to join the daring new director.
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ToninoDelliColli, AIC will receive the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) International Achievement Award which is presented annually to an individual whose body of work has made an enduring impact on the global art form.
DelliColli was born in Rome in 1923, where his father worked for a film lab.
DelliColli was under contract to shoot five films a year for Carlo Ponti and Dino De Laurentiis during the early 1950s.
DelliColli helped to forge Italian neorealism, a cinematic genre known for its use of natural light and on-location shooting, which depicted life in tattered postwar Italy.
DelliColli was perhaps most closely associated with Pasolini, a highly experimental filmmaker who often chronicled the dark underside of Italian life.
ToninoDelliColli, who has died aged 81, was one of Italian cinema's most admired cinematographers.
DelliColli was not a man of great culture, this was perhaps what endeared him so much to directors who were well stocked with cultural pretensions but did not always have the technical know-how to put them on film.
Small in stature, DelliColli made up for it in charisma and good spirits, winning favour with actors and crew for his professional flair and unpretentiousness.
Later this month renowned cinematographer ToninoDelliColli, AIC will receive the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) International Achievement Award which is presented annually to an individual whose body of work has made an enduring impact on the global art form.
The award will be presented to DelliColli during the 19th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards here at the Century Plaza Hotel on February 20.
DelliColli was in the front ranks of a new generation of cinematographers who pioneered neorealist cinema after World War II.
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ToninoDelliColli, one of Italy's most prolific and renowned cinematographers, has died at the age of 81.
DelliColli was director of photographer on over 130 movies between in a career spanning 53 years; shooting some of the finest films of the 20th century, including Italy's first colour film, 'Toto a Colori' (1952).
DelliColli was found by his niece, Laura, at his home and was buried this morning at Santa Maria deil Miracoli in Rome’s Piazza del Popolo.
ToninoDelliColli, the Italian cinematographer who shot such classic films as The Name Of The Rose (1986), The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966) and Life Is Beautiful (1997), has died in Rome, Italy on August 17, 2005.
DelliColli started working at Italian studio Cinecitta at 16, learning cinematography while an assistant to Mario Albertelli and eventually working his way up to camera operator.
DelliColli collaborated with director Pier Paolo Pasolini on a dozen films including Pasolini’s debut Accattone (1961), The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), The Canterbury Tales (1974) and Salo O Le 120 Giornate Di Sodoma (Salo Or The 120 Days Of Sodom, 1976).
In the 1960s, DelliColli began his working relationship with Sergio Leone, a collaboration that would bring him his greatest fame in the United States.
Leone and DelliColli reimagined the Westerns of John Ford and Howard Hawks, taking genre films to the level of art through glacial but tense pacing; innovative sound design; fresh, minimalist dialogue; and, above all, obsessive and almost exclusive use of extreme close-ups and very wide shots.
Later, DelliColli heard that there were near riots at Rome’s Supercinema because crowds were trying to get in to see A Fistful of Dollars (1964).
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- ToninoDelliColli, AIC will receive the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) International Achievement Award which is presented annually to an individual whose body of work has made an enduring impact on the global art form.
The award will be presented to DelliColli during the 19th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards here at the Century Plaza Hotel on February 20, 2005.
Class 1921, an extraordinarily talented cinematographer, ToninoDelliColli went to work at Cinecittà at age 16, as an assistant to cameramen Ubaldo Arata and Anchise Brizzi, who were genuine stars of the period.
DelliColli’s collaboration with Leone reached its apogee with Once Upon a Time in America (1984), a sweeping gangster epic that earned acclaim at Cannes but was radically cut down in the editing room by its U.S. distributor.
DelliColli also made four films with Federico Fellini, including The Voice of the Moon (1990), Intervista (1987) and Ginger and Fred (1986).
DelliColli won David di Donatello Awards, Italy’s equivalent to the Academy Award, for his cinematography in Storie di orinaria follia (Tales of Ordinary Madness), The Name of the Rose (see AC Oct.
Italian cinematographer ToninoDelliColli, whose groundbreaking vision helped forge the careers of many of Italy's greatest directors over a six-decade career spanning from neorealism to Roberto Benigni's "Life is Beautiful," died Aug. 17 in Rome.
DelliColli, who earned more than 130 cinematography credits between 1944 and 1997, was recently honored with the American Society of Cinematographers' international achievement award.
Born in Rome, DelliColli started in the trade at 16.
ToninoDelliColli to Receive ASC International Achievement Award
ToninoDelliColli, AIC will receive the ASC International Achievement Award which is presented annually to an individual whose body of work has made an enduring impact on the global art form.
The award will be presented to DelliColli during the 19th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards at the Century Plaza Hotel on Feb. 20, 2005.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, legendary cinematographer ToninoDelliColli, who worked alongside many of Italy's film titans over the past six decades, died at his home in Rome on Wednesday.
Among the more than 130 films DelliColli worked on were Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales, Fellini's Ginger and Fred, Polanski's Death and the Maiden, J. Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose and Benigni's Life Is Beautifu, the cinematographer's final film.
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Cinematographer DelliColli dies DelliColli's final film was Life is Beautiful starring Roberto Benigni http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4163672.stm Cinematographer ToninoDelliColli, who worked on some of Italy's most famous films, has died at the age of 81.
He was found dead in his Rome apartment on Wednesday morning (Aug 17), his niece Laura said on Thursday.
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He is also known for his brightly colored landscapes in the '60s westerns of Sergio Leone and the powerful use of fl and white photography in urban dramas.
DelliColli got his start as a teen working as a camera assistant.
