Giuseppe Rotunno

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| birth_name = Giuseppe Rotunno

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1923|3|19}}

| birth_place = Rome, Italy

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| death_place = Rome, Italy

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| nationality = Italian

| other_names = Peppino Rotunno

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| occupation = Cinematographer

| years_active = 1955–1997

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BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography
1979 All That Jazz

David di Donatello for Best Cinematography

1966 The Bible: In the Beginning...
1990 The Bachelor

Silver Ribbon Award for Best Cinematography

1960 Rocco and His Brothers
1962 Family Diary
1963 The Leopard
1969 Fellini Satyricon
1976 Fellini's Casanova
1980 City of Women
1983 And the Ship Sails On
1988 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

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Giuseppe Rotunno (19 March 1923 – 7 February 2021) was an Italian cinematographer.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/rotunno.htm|title=GIUSEPPE ROTUNNO|website=www.cinematographers.nl|access-date=30 March 2018}}

Biography

Sometimes credited as Peppino Rotunno, he was director of photography on eight films by Federico Fellini. He collaborated with several celebrated Italian directors including; Vittorio De Sica on Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, and Luchino Visconti on Rocco and His Brothers (1960), The Leopard (1963), and The Stranger (1967). 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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090801014909/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/26716/Julia-and-Julia/overview 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{{Cite web|url=https://theasc.com/asc/members|title=Members – The American Society of Cinematographers|website=theasc.com|language=en|access-date=30 March 2018}} in 1966.

Rotunno died on 7 February 2021,{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2021/film/global/giuseppe-rotunno-dead-1234903063/|title=Oscar-Nominated Cinematographer and Fellini Collaborator Giuseppe Rotunno Dies at 97|work=Variety|date=8 February 2021|access-date=8 February 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2021/02/giuseppe-rotunno-dies-oscar-nominated-italian-cinematographer-1234689595/|title=Giuseppe Rotunno Dies: Oscar Nominated Italian Cinematographer Was 97|work=Deadline|date=8 February 2021|access-date=8 February 2021}} at the age of 97.{{Cite web|url=https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2021/02/07/news/morto_peppino_rotunno_il_maestro_della_fotografia-286445283/|title=È morto Peppino Rotunno, il maestro della fotografia di Visconti e Fellini|work=La Repubblica|date=7 February 2021|access-date=7 February 2021}}

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."{{cite web|url=https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2021/feature-articles/dreams-of-italys-past-giuseppe-rotunnos-cinematography-in-amarcord-and-the-leopard/|last=Lager|first=Mark|title=Dreams of Italy's Past - Giuseppe Rotunno's Cinematography in Amarcord and The Leopard|date=2021}}