Giuseppe Rotunno (19 March 1923 – 7 February 2021) was an Italian cinematographer.
Career Sometimes credited as Peppino Rotunno, he contributed to 77 film productions over the course of his career. Rotunno was director of photography on eight films by Federico Fellini. He collaborated with several other celebrated Italian directors, including Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mario Monicelli, and Luchino Visconti.
Rotunno also served as the director of photography for Julia and Julia (1987), the first feature shot using high definition television taping technique and then transferred to 35 mm film.New York Times overview of Julia and Julia
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for All That Jazz and won seven Silver Ribbon Awards.
Rotunno was the first non-American member admitted to the American Society of Cinematographers in 1966.
Death and legacy Rotunno died on 7 February 2021, at the age of 97.
Mark Lager, on Senses of Cinema, praised Giuseppe Rotunno's cinematography as "especially attuned to colour, composition, and perspective", particularly in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard and Federico Fellini's Amarcord, writing "Rotunno's cinematography in Amarcord is nostalgic as it presents the carnivalesque citizens and their daily lives during the four seasons in Fellini's reimagined seaside village of Rimini. His cinematography in The Leopard is elegant and panoramic as it surveys the rituals of the Sicilian nobility, centred upon Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina."
Filmography Feature film Year Title Director Notes1955 Scandal in Sorrento Dino Risi Cristo non si è fermato a Eboli Michele Gandin1956 Tosca Carmine Gallone The Monte Carlo Story Samuel A. Taylor 1957 White Nights Luchino Visconti1958 The Love Specialist Luigi Zampa Anna of Brooklyn Reginald DenhamCarlo Lastricati The Naked Maja Henry Koster1959 Policarpo Mario Soldati The Great War Mario Monicelli With Roberto Gerardi On the Beach Stanley Kramer1960 Five Branded Women Martin Ritt The Angel Wore Red Nunnally Johnson Rocco and His Brothers Luchino Visconti1961 Ghosts of Rome Antonio Pietrangeli The Best of Enemies Guy Hamilton 1962 Family Diary Valerio Zurlini1963 The Leopard Luchino Visconti The Organizer Mario Monicelli Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Vittorio De Sica 1966 The Bible: In the Beginning... John Huston1967 The Witches Mauro BologniniVittorio De SicaPier Paolo PasoliniFranco RossiLuchino Visconti The Stranger Luchino Visconti1968 Anzio Edward Dmytryk Candy Christian Marquand1969 Fellini Satyricon Federico Fellini The Secret of Santa Vittoria Stanley Kramer1970 Sunflower Vittorio De Sica Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale Vittorio Caprioli 1971 Carnal Knowledge Mike Nichols1972 Roma Federico Fellini Man of La Mancha Arthur Hiller1973 Love and Anarchy Lina Wertmüller Amarcord Federico Fellini1974 All Screwed Up Lina Wertmüller The Beast Sergio Corbucci Erotomania Marco Vicario1975 The Divine Nymph Giuseppe Patroni Griffi Fellini's Casanova Federico Fellini 1976 Stormtroopers Salvatore Samperi 1977 Ecco noi per esempio Sergio Corbucci1978 A Night Full of Rain Lina Wertmüller China 9, Liberty 37 Monte Hellman Orchestra Rehearsal Federico Fellini 1979 All That Jazz Bob Fosse1980 City of Women Federico Fellini Popeye Robert Altman 1981 Rollover Alan J. Pakula With Guglielmo Garroni (Credited as William Garroni)1982 My Darling, My Dearest Sergio Corbucci Five Days One Summer Fred Zinnemann 1983 And the Ship Sails On Federico Fellini1984 Desiderio Anna Maria Tatò American Dreamer Rick Rosenthal With Jan de Bont Nothing Left to Do But Cry Roberto BenigniMassimo Troisi1985 The Assisi Underground Alexander Ramati Red Sonja Richard Fleischer Orfeo Claude Goretta1987 Hotel Colonial Cinzia TH Torrini Julia and Julia Peter Del Monte Rent-a-Cop Jerry London1988 Haunted Summer Ivan Passer The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Terry Gilliam 1989 Rebus Massimo Guglielmi 1990 The Bachelor Roberto Faenza 1991 Regarding Henry Mike Nichols 1992 Once Upon a Crime Eugene Levy 1994 Wolf Mike Nichols1995 The Night and the Moment Anna Maria Tatò Sabrina Sydney Pollack 1996 The Stendhal Syndrome Dario Argento 1997 Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember Anna Maria Tatò Documentary film
Television TV movies Year Title Director Notes 1975 E il Casanova di Fellini? Gianfranco AngelucciLiliana Betti Documentary film 1983 The Scarlet and the Black Jerry London
TV series Year Title Director Notes 1976 Origins of the Mafia Enzo Muzii Miniseries
Awards and nominations Year Award Nomination Title Result 1979 Academy Awards Best Cinematography All That Jazz 1978BAFTA AwardsBest Cinematography Fellini's Casanova 1979 All That Jazz 1966David di DonatelloBest Cinematography The Bible: In the Beginning... 1990 The Bachelor 1957Silver RibbonBest Cinematography The Monte Carlo Story 1958 White Nights 1959 The Naked Maja 1960 Policarpo The Great War 1961 Rocco and His Brothers 1962 Ghosts of Rome 1963 Family Diary Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow The Leopard 1966 The Bible: In the Beginning... 1969 Fellini Satyricon 1974 Amarcord 1975 The Divine Nymph 1976 Fellini's Casanova 1980 City of Women 1983 And the Ship Sails On 1988 Julia and Julia 1990 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1990 The Bachelor
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