Academy Award winning Italian set designer and dresser
Osvaldo Desideri died on October 18, 2023. He was 84. Desideri was born in the
Rome suburb of Borgo Pio on February 16, 1939. He began as an assistant set
designer then met Ferdinando Scarfiotti with whom he had the opportunity to
work with Luchino Visconti, on “Death in Venice” and with Billy Wilder on
“Avanti!” He then met Bernardo Bertolucci and Vittorio Storaro and brought his
talent to over 120 films, including Antonioni's “Professione: reporter”,
Pasolini's “Salò”, Fellini's” The City of Women”, Liliana Cavani's “The Night
Porter” and Sergio Leone's “Once Upon a Time in America.” In 1988 he was
awarded the Oscar, the Davide di Donatello and the Ciak d'oro for the best set
design of “The Last Emperor”. Osvaldo was the set designer and dresser for one
Spaghetti western 1981’s “Buddy Goes West” directed by Michele Lupo and
starring Bud Spencer, Amidou and Joe Bugner.
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