Awards & Winners

Franco Piersanti

Date of Birth 12-January-1950
Place of Birth Rome
(Italy, Lazio, Province of Rome)
Nationality Italy
Also know as F. Piersanti
Profession Conductor, Composer, Film Score Composer
Franco Piersanti is an Italian composer and conductor. Born in Rome in 1950, he graduated in double bass at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory, where he studied composition under the guidance of Armando Renzi and conducting with Franco Ferrara and Piero Bellugi. He later played bass in the RAI Symphony Orchestra. During his studies he knew the composer Nino Rota, and he became his assistant between 1975 and 1977. In 1976 he debuted as film composer scoring the Nanni Moretti's first film, Io sono un autarchico and started a long collaboration with him that continued with Moretti's Habemus Papam. Piersanti is also well known for his long collaboration with the director Gianni Amelio, for who he scored seven movies between 1982 and 2006, including The Stolen Children and Lamerica for which he won two David di Donatello for Best Score. His soundtracks include The Best Day of My Life, My Brother is an Only Child, The Beast in the Heart,Fort Apache Napoli, Love and Fear, The Second Time and Inspector Montalbano.

Awards by Franco Piersanti

Check all the awards nominated and won by Franco Piersanti.

2013


Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
David di Donatello for Best Music Me and You

2012


Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
David di Donatello for Best Music We Have a Pope

2007


Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
David di Donatello for Best Music My Brother Is an Only Child

2006


David di Donatello for Best Music
Honored for : The Caiman

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
David di Donatello for Best Music The Caiman

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
David di Donatello for Best Music The Keys to the House

1998


Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
David di Donatello for Best Music Notes of Love

1995


David di Donatello for Best Music
Honored for : Lamerica

Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
David di Donatello for Best Music Lamerica

1993


Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score On My Own

1992


David di Donatello for Best Music
Honored for : The Stolen Children

Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
David di Donatello for Best Music The Stolen Children