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Franco Zeffirelli
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Italian director and politician (1923-2019)
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Franco Zeffirelli (1923–2019) was an Italian theatrical director, film director, screenwriter, and politician. Born in Florence, he was educated at the University of Florence and resided in Rome, where he also worked. His career included directing works such as *Jesus of Nazareth*, *Romeo and Juliet*, and *The Girl on the Balcony*. Zeffirelli was a member of the Christian Democracy and Forza Italia political parties.
He received several accolades, including the David di Donatello for Best Director, the Nastro d'Argento for the director of the best film, and the National Board of Review Award for Best Director. Zeffirelli was also a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director, the Academy Award for Best Production Design, the Tony Award for Best Scenic Design, and the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director.
Zeffirelli died in Rome in 2019 due to disease. He was buried at the Cimitero delle Porte Sante.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 13
Top works
- International Motion Picture ALMANAC
- Películas legendarias
- Jesus of Nazareth
- The Girl on the Balcony Lib/E
- Romeo and Juliet
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Film & TV
Directing · Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli KBE, Grande Ufficiale OMRI (12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019), commonly known as Franco Zeffirelli (Italian pronunciation: [ˈfraŋko dzeffiˈrɛlli]), was an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television. He was also a senator from 1994 until 2001 for the Italian centre-right Forza Italia party. Some of his operatic designs and productions have become…
Known for
- Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields — Self (archive footage)2023
- Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist — Self2022
- The Opera House — Self (archive footage)2017
- The Mystery of Dante — Self2014
- Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films — Self - Director2014
- The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films — Self2014
- Discovering Hamlet — Self2011
- Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel — Self2008
- Callas Assoluta — Self (archive footage)2007
- Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema — Self2006
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Italy
- Active from
- 1923
- Active to
- 2019
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 217
- Total plays
- 624
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,691x
- Experimental and computational approaches to estimate solubility and permeability in drug discovery and development settings 1PII of original article: S0169-409X(96)00423-1. The article was originally published in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews 23 (1997) 3–25. 1
· 2001 · cited 10,866x
- Experimental and computational approaches to estimate solubility and permeability in drug discovery and development settings
· 1997 · cited 10,411x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice
· 2021 · cited 5,853x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,577x
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Florence
- Place of death
- Rome
- Educated at
- University of Florence
- Political party
- Christian Democracy
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Native language
- Italian
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Award
- Primetime Emmy Award
- Field of work
- film direction
- Official website
- www.francozeffirelli.it
- Image
- Zeffirelli (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Work location
- Rome
- Residence
- Rome
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- Commons category
- Franco Zeffirelli
- date of birth
- 1923-02-12
- birth name
- Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli
- nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
- name in native language
- Franco Zeffirelli
- date of death
- 2019-06-15
- cause of death
- disease
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Franco Zeffirelli
- place of burial
- Cimitero delle Porte Sante
- pseudonym
- Franco Zeffirelli
- start of work period
- 1950-00-00
- P10632
- Franco Zeffirelli
- end of work period
- 1999-01-01
- member of
- Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈfraŋko ddzeffiˈrɛlli]; 12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019) was an Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer and politician. He was one of the most significant opera and theatre directors of the post–World War II era, gaining both acclaim and notoriety for his lavish stagings of classical works, as well as his film adaptations of the same.
Films he directed included the Shakespearean adaptations The Taming of the Shrew (1967), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; Romeo and Juliet (1968), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director; and Hamlet (1990), starring Mel Gibson and Glenn Close. His Biblical television miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977) won both national and international acclaim and is still frequently shown at Christmas and Easter in many countries.
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