Scaccianoce, Luigi

(1914-1981)

   Art director and production designer. Scaccianoce studied design at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and worked with a number of minor directors before collaborating on Orson Welles's Othello (1951). His meticulous attention to historical detail earned him a Nastro d'Argento for Best Production Design on Mauro Bolognini's Senilita (Careless, 1962), an award repeated two years later for his design of Francesco Maselli's Gli indifferenti (A Time of Indifference, 1964). He worked extensively with Pier Paolo Pasolini on Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew, 1964), Uccellacci e uccellini (Hawks and Sparrows, 1966), and Edipo Re (Oedipus Rex, 1967), and collaborated closely with costume designer Danilo Donati to achieve the eerie and almost surreal atmosphere of Federico Fellini's Satyricon (1969). He subsequently worked with Vittorio De Sica on the latter's last two films, Una breve vacanza (A Brief Vacation, 1973) and II viaggio (The Voyage, 1974). Scaccianoce's last film was La cage aux folles II, directed in 1980 by Edouard Molinaro.