Nino Rota
Known for: Sound
Born: December 3, 1911
Died: April 10, 1979
Place of birth: Milano, Lombardia, Italia
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 more, with a remarkable thirteen film scores to his credit in 1954. Alongside this great body of film work, he composed ten operas, five ballets and dozens of other orchestral, choral and chamber works, the best known being his string concerto. He also composed the music for many theatre productions by Visconti, Zeffirelli and Eduardo De Filippo as well as maintaining a long teaching career at the Liceo Musicale in Bari, Italy, where he was the director for almost 30 years.
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Filmography
166 movies · 5 TV shows, newest first
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Nino – A Film About Nino Rota
2026
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Chelsea Zurflüh & Jonathan Tetelman @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025
2025
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Stjepan Hauser plays Bach and Morricone @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025
2025
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Jonas Kaufmann: The Sound of Movies
2024
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New Year's Eve Concert 2022 With the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
2022
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OSN: Il ballo al Cinema con John Axelrod
2022
8.6
The Morricone Duel: The Most Dangerous Concert Ever
2018
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Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
2016
9.0
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
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Cinephile
2013
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La visita meravigliosa: Viaggio in Italia sulle tracce di Nino Rota
2011
3.5
The Magic of Fellini
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Coursework
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Red Market
1998
6.0
The Lion with the White Beard
1995
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In morte di Federico Fellini
1994
6.5
A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota
1994
6.5
Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert
1993
8.9
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992
7.4
The Godfather Part III
1990
2.0
Chikan densha: Gusshori nurashite
1988
2.0
Groper Train: Check With Your Finger
1987
2.0
Groper Train: Interconnected
1986
5.3
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
1985
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Murad Kazhlayev. Rhythms and Years
1981
6.5
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
1979
4.7
Hurricane
1979
6.6
Orchestra Rehearsal
1979
7.2
Death on the Nile
1978
7.1
Contact
1978
10.0
Il furto della gioconda
1978
8.6
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
1977
4.0
Las alegres chicas de 'El Molino'
1977
6.9
Fellini's Casanova
1976
8.0
Origins of the Mafia
1976
5.4
Dear Michele
1976
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The Song Is Always With Us
1975
10.0
E il Casanova di Fellini?
1975
8.6
The Godfather Part II
1974
5.6
The Abdication
1974
6.0
The Secret Diary of 'Amarcord'
1974
7.9
Amarcord
1973
8.1
Sunset Sunrise
1973
7.7
Love and Anarchy
1973
7.3
Roma
1972
8.7
The Godfather
1972
6.8
The Clowns
1970
7.1
Waterloo
1970
6.7
Satyricon
1969
6.7
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook
1969
6.2
Spirits of the Dead
1968
7.4
Romeo and Juliet
1968
6.7
Toby Dammit
1968
6.9
The Taming of the Shrew
1967
6.3
Much Ado About Nothing
1967
5.9
Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand
1966
6.4
Kiss the Other Sheik
1965
7.2
Juliet of the Spirits
1965
8.2
Gian Burrasca's Diary
1964
6.8
The Teacher from Vigevano
1963
7.7
The Leopard
1963
8.1
8½
1963
7.8
The Reluctant Saint
1962
6.9
Boccaccio '70
1962
7.0
The Temptation of Dr. Antonio
1962
6.9
The Best of Enemies
1961
8.5
The Brigand
1961
7.2
Ghosts of Rome
1961
8.0
Rocco and His Brothers
1960
7.6
Purple Noon
1960
8.0
La Dolce Vita
1960
8.1
The Great War
1959
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Il Pranzo di Natale di Mario Soldati
1958
7.2
The Law Is the Law
1958
6.5
Piece of the Sky
1958
7.0
The Italians They Are Crazy
1958
6.3
Fortunella
1958
7.0
City at Night
1958
7.1
Doctor and the Healer
1957
7.4
White Nights
1957
6.1
This Angry Age
1957
8.0
Nights of Cabiria
1957
6.0
The Most Wonderful Moment
1957
7.0
Italia piccola
1957
8.0
The House of Intrigue
1956
6.6
War and Peace
1956
7.3
Io piaccio
1955
6.3
It Happened in the Penitentiary
1955
7.3
The Swindle
1955
5.5
La bella di Roma
1955
6.9
A Hero of Our Times
1955
9.0
Scampolo 53
1955
6.5
Divisione Folgore
1954
9.0
Loves of Three Queens
1954
8.0
The Two Orphans
1954
7.9
La Strada
1954
7.0
Modern Virgin
1954
5.4
Mambo
1954
7.0
Passionately
1954
6.4
Submarine Attack
1954
7.5
100 Years of Love
1954
6.8
The Stranger's Hand
1954
4.4
Star of India
1954
9.0
The Hunt
1953
6.6
Lo scocciatore
1953
6.5
The Ship of Condemned Women
1953
6.8
Easy Years
1953
8.0
Gli uomini, che mascalzoni!
1953
7.6
I Vitelloni
1953
7.0
Riscatto - Tu sei il mio giudice
1953
6.9
The Wild Oat
1953
6.4
Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair
1953
6.2
Good Folk's Sunday
1953
10.0
Hell Raiders of the Deep
1953
6.0
Immortal Melodies
1952
8.5
Noi due soli
1952
7.3
Ragazze da marito
1952
5.5
The Queen of Sheba
1952
7.0
I tre corsari
1952
7.0
Toto and the Kings of Rome
1952
6.2
Venetian Bird
1952
7.2
The White Sheik
1952
5.7
Something Money Can't Buy
1952
7.5
Marito e Moglie
1952
7.3
Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino
1952
8.0
Un ladro in paradiso
1952
7.3
Anna
1951
5.2
It's Him!... Yes! Yes!
1951
8.6
Filumena Marturano
1951
6.2
Valley of the Eagles
1951
6.8
Honeymoon Deferred
1951
8.0
Napoleone
1951
6.8
White Corridors
1951
10.0
Il monello della strada
1950
6.5
The Knight is Here
1950
6.5
The King's Guerrillas
1950
6.2
Twelve Hours to Live
1950
6.9
A Dog’s Life
1950
7.4
Side Street Story
1950
6.0
Her Favourite Husband
1950
6.4
It's Forever Springtime
1950
6.9
The Pirates of Capri
19498.0
Children of Chance
1949
6.3
Campane a martello
1949
6.8
Obsession
1949
7.0
Come scopersi l'America
1949
6.5
Toto Tours Italy
1948
6.7
Woman Trouble
1948
7.1
Under the Sun of Rome
1948
5.9
Without Pity
1948
10.0
L'eroe della strada
1948
10.0
Arrivederci, papà!
1948
7.0
Guaglio
1948
7.2
Escape to France
1948
7.5
Lovers Without Love
1948
6.5
How I Lost the War
1947
8.0
When Love Calls
1947
9.0
Daniele Cortis
1947
7.2
To Live in Peace
1947
5.4
Rome: Free City
1946
7.0
Professor, My Son
1946
9.0
Un americano in vacanza
1946
10.0
Albergo Luna, camera 34
1946
5.9
The Misery of Mr. Travet
1945
10.0
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
1945
6.5
La freccia nel fianco
1945
6.2
Woman of the Mountains
1944
4.5
Zazà
1944
6.2
Daddy's Little Devil
1943
8.0
Giorno di nozze
1942
6.5
Tourist Train
1933