Italian composer Nicola Piovani will receive a lifetime achievement at the 2023 World Soundtrack Awards, held at Film Fest Ghent on October 21.
Piovani is best known for composing the score to Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful for which he won the Oscar in 1999.
The composer began his career in 1971 with Silvano Agosti’s N.P. Il Segreto and has gone on to compose the music to more than 200 films and series.
He worked with Federico Fellini on a number of his films including Ginger & Fred (1986), Intervista (1987) and The Voice Of The Moon (1990).
Other regular collaborators include Nanni Moretti for Dear Diary and The Son’s Room; Paolo and Vittorio Taviani for The Night Of The Shooting Stars and Kaos; and Philippe Lioret for Welcome and The Light – with both scores earning him a Cesar nomination.
Further credits include Roberto Benigni’s Pinocchio, Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor and Giuseppe Tornatore’s Ennio.
The composer has also picked up three Italian Golden Globes, a Grammy nomination and was presented with a lifetime achievement award at Venice in 2015.
Piovani will be a guest at the WSA ceremony along with Eiko Ishibashi who won the discovery of the year award in 2022 for Drive My Car.
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