Nino Rota
Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ˈrɔːta riˈnaldi]; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Nino Rota (IPA: [ˈniːno]), 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, earning 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 ...
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The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
Hurricane
Orchestra Rehearsal
Death on the Nile
Fellini's Casanova
The Godfather Part II
Amarcord
Love and Anarchy
Roma
The Godfather
The Clowns
Waterloo
Satyricon
Spirits of the Dead
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
Much Ado About Nothing
Juliet of the Spirits
The Leopard
8½
The Reluctant Saint
Boccaccio '70
The Brigand
Rocco and His Brothers
Purple Noon
La Dolce Vita
The Great War
The Law Is the Law
Piece of the Sky
Fortunella
City at Night
Doctor and the Healer
Le Notti Bianche
Nights of Cabiria
The Most Wonderful Moment
War and Peace
It Happened in the Penitentiary
The Swindle
La bella di Roma
A Hero of Our Times
The Two Orphans
La Strada
Modern Virgin
Mambo
Passionately
100 Years of Love
Lo scocciatore
The Ship of Condemned Women
Easy Years
I Vitelloni
The Wild Oat
Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair
Good Folk's Sunday
Hell Raiders of the Deep
Noi due soli
Ragazze da marito
I tre corsari
Toto and the Kings of Rome
Venetian Bird
The White Sheik
Marito e Moglie
Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino
Un ladro in paradiso
Anna
It's Him!... Yes! Yes!
Filumena Marturano
Valley of the Eagles
Honeymoon Deferred
White Corridors
Il monello della strada
The Knight is Here
The King's Guerrillas
A Dog’s Life
Side Street Story
Her Favourite Husband
It's Forever Springtime
The Pirates of Capri
Campane a martello
Obsession
Come scopersi l'America
Toto Tours Italy
Woman Trouble
Under the Sun of Rome
Without Pity
L'eroe della strada
Guaglio
Escape to France
Lovers Without Love
How I Lost the War
To Live in Peace
Rome: Free City
Professor, My Son
Un americano in vacanza
Albergo Luna, camera 34
The Misery of Mr. Travet
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
La freccia nel fianco
Woman of the Mountains
Zazà
Giorno di nozze
Tourist Train