Tonino Delli Colli

Antonio "Tonino" Delli Colli (20 November 1923 – 16 August 2005) was an Italian cinematographer.

Life and career Born in Rome, Delli Colli began work at the Cinecittà studio at the age of sixteen.

By the mid-1940s he was working as a cinematographer and shot the first Italian film in colour, Totò a colori. He went on to work with a number of acclaimed and diverse directors including, Sergio Leone, Roman Polanski, Louis Malle, Jean-Jacques Annaud, and Federico Fellini, but it was his collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini that proved to be the most fruitful, making together a total of 12 films.

Although Delli Colli did not work regularly with Lina Wertmuller, his cinematography for Seven Beauties (1975) was a major career highlight.

Death In 2005 he was awarded the American Society of Cinematographers' International Achievement Award.

In August of the same year, he died from a heart attack at the age of 81 in his home in Rome.

In the same year, Delli Colli was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th annual Camerimage Film Festival in Łódź, Poland.

Filmography Film

Short film Year Title Director Notes 1963 La ricotta Pier Paolo Pasolini Segment of Ro.Go.Pa.G.1964 Amore e arte Gianni PucciniSegments of Amore e morte Mino Guerrini La Feuille de route Ugo Gregoretti Segment of The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers Il generale Alfredo Giannetti Segment of Amori pericolosi La doccia Massimo Franciosa Segment of 1968 Che cosa sono le nuvole? Pier Paolo Pasolini Segment of Caprice Italian Style William Wilson Louis Malle Segment of Spirits of the Dead 1980 Armando's Notebook Dino Risi Segment of Sunday Lovers 1991 Il cane blu Giuseppe Bertolucci Segment of Especially on Sunday 1996 Sanpellegrino Calze Giuseppe Tornatore

Documentary film Year Title Director Notes 1952 Gli undici moschettieri Ennio De ConciniFausto Saraceni 1957 Questo nostro mondo Ugo LazzariniEros MacchiAngelo Negri With Massimo Dallamano, Paolo Gregori, Alvaro Mancori and Gian Maria Rimoldi 1960 Luigi Vanzi 1964 Love Meetings Pier Paolo Pasolini With Mario Bernardo

Documentary short Year Title Director Notes 1971 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1994 Corrado Farina 2024 Der rabe unheimlich Erik Mariñelarena With Boyd Estus

Awards and nominations Year Award Category Title Result 1984 BAFTA Awards Best Cinematography Once Upon a Time in America 2005 American Society of CinematographersInternational Award CamerimageLifetime Achievement Award 1980David di DonatelloBest Cinematography Camera d'albergo 1981 The Canterbury Tales 1986 Ginger and Fred 1987 The Name of the Rose 1988 Intervista 1990 The Voice of the Moon 1997 Marianna Ucrìa 1998 Life Is Beautiful