FrameThrower · Actors · Giancarlo Giannini
Giancarlo Giannini
9 films · 765 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1971–2008
Born 1 August 1942 · La Spezia, Liguria, Italy
Giancarlo Giannini is an Italian actor. He won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in Love and Anarchy (1973) and received an Academy Award nomination for Seven Beauties (1975). He is also a four-time recipient of the David di Donatello Award for Best Actor.
Giannini began his career on stage, starring in Franco Zeffirelli's productions of Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. After appearing predominantly on television throughout the early 1960s, he had his first lead role in a film in Rita the Mosquito (1965), the first of many collaborations with filmmaker Lina Wertmüller.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 765 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1971–2008
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor1973
- David di Donatello for Best Actor
- David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Silver Shell for Best Actor1973
- Cinearti La chioma di Berenice Prize
- Targa d'Oro
How their films are shot
Measured across 765 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Giancarlo takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 9 films we hold, 48% of their frames are night, 44% low key — the look of the work Giancarlo takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
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