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Franco Zeffirelli

March 31, 2023

Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli KBE  Grande Ufficiale OMRI (12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019),[1] was an Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer and politician. He was one of the most significant opera and theatre directors of the post-World War II era, gaining both acclaim and notoriety for his lavish stagings of classical works, as well as his film adaptations of the same.[2][3] A member of the Forza Italia party, he served as the Senator for Catania between 1994 until 2001.

Franco Zeffirelli

KBE  Grande Ufficiale OMRI
Zeffirelli in 1972
Born
Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli

(1923-02-12)12 February 1923
Florence, Italy
Died15 June 2019(2019-06-15) (aged 96)
Rome, Italy
Alma materAcademy of Fine Arts of Florence
Occupations
  • Film director
  • opera director
  • politician
Political party
Children2 (adopted)
Member of the Senate of the Republic
In office
21 April 1994 – 29 May 2001
ConstituencyCatania
Military career
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service1942–1945
Unit24th Guards Brigade
Battles/warsWorld War II

Films he directed included the Shakespearean adaptations The Taming of the Shrew (1967), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; Romeo and Juliet (1968), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director; and Hamlet (1990), starring Mel Gibson and Glenn Close. His Biblical television miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977) won both national and international acclaim and is still frequently shown at Christmas and Easter in many countries.

A Grande Ufficiale OMRI of the Italian Republic since 1977, Zeffirelli also received an honorary British knighthood in 2004 when he was created a KBE.[4] He was awarded the Premio Colosseo in 2009 by the city of Rome.

Early life

Zeffirelli was born Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli in the outskirts of Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was born after an affair between Florentine Alaide Garosi, a fashion designer, and Ottorino Corsi, a wool and silk dealer from Vinci. Since both were married, Alaide was unable to use her surname or Corsi's for her child. She came up with "Zeffiretti", which are the "little breezes" mentioned in Mozart's opera Idomeneo, of which she was quite fond. However, it was misspelt in the register and became Zeffirelli.[5] When he was six years old, his mother died and he subsequently grew up under the auspices of the English expatriate community and was particularly involved with the so-called Scorpioni, who inspired his semi-autobiographical film Tea with Mussolini (1999).

Italian researchers found that Zeffirelli was one of a handful of living people traceably consanguineous with Leonardo da Vinci. He was a descendant of one of da Vinci's siblings.[6]

Zeffirelli graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze in 1941 and, following his father's advice, entered the University of Florence to study art and architecture.[7] After World War II broke out, he fought as a partisan, before he met up with British soldiers of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards and became their interpreter. After the war, he re-entered the University of Florence to continue his studies, but when he saw Laurence Olivier's Henry V in 1945, he directed his attention toward theatre instead.

While working for a scene-painter in Florence, he was introduced to Luchino Visconti, who hired him as an assistant director for the film La Terra trema, which was released in 1948. Visconti's methods had a deep impact upon Zeffirelli's later work.[8] He also worked with directors such as Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini. In the 1960s, he made his name designing and directing his own plays in London and New York City and soon transferred his ideas to the cinema.

Career

Film

 
Zeffirelli with Olivia Hussey while filming Romeo and Juliet in 1967

Zeffirelli's first film as director was a version of The Taming of the Shrew (1967), originally intended for Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni but featured the Hollywood stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in their stead. Taylor and Burton helped fund production and took a percentage of the profits rather than their normal salaries.

While editing The Taming of the Shrew, Zeffirelli's native Florence was devastated by floods. A month later, he released a short documentary, entitled Florence: Days of Destruction, to raise funds for the disaster appeal.[9]

Zeffirelli's major breakthrough came the year after, when he presented two teenagers as Romeo and Juliet (1968). It made Zeffirelli a household name – no other subsequent work by him had the immediate impact of Romeo and Juliet. The film earned $14.5 million in domestic rentals at the North American box office in 1969.[10] It was re-released in 1973 and earned $1.7 million in rentals.[11]

Film critic Roger Ebert, for the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote: "I believe Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet is the most exciting film of Shakespeare ever made".[12]

After two successful film adaptations of Shakespeare, Zeffirelli went on to religious themes, first with a film about the life of St. Francis of Assisi titled Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972), then his extended mini-series Jesus of Nazareth (1977) with an all-star cast. The latter was a major success in the ratings.

He moved on to contemporary themes with a remake of the boxing picture The Champ (1979) and the critically panned Endless Love (1981). In the 1980s, he made a series of successful films adapting opera to the screen, with such stars as Plácido Domingo, Teresa Stratas, Juan Pons and Katia Ricciarelli. He returned to Shakespeare with Hamlet (1990), casting Mel Gibson in the lead role. His adaptation of the Charlotte Brontë novel Jane Eyre (1996) was a critical success.

Zeffirelli frequently cast unknown actors in major roles: Leonard Whiting (Romeo in Romeo and Juliet), Graham Faulkner (St. Francis in Brother Sun, Sister Moon) and Martin Hewitt (David Axelrod in Endless Love).

Opera

Zeffirelli was a major director of opera productions from the 1950s in Italy and elsewhere in Europe as well as the United States. He began his career in the theatre as assistant to Luchino Visconti. Then he tried his hand at scenography. His first work as a director was buffo operas by Gioachino Rossini. He became a friend of Maria Callas and they worked together on a La traviata in Dallas, Texas, in 1958. Of particular note is his 1964 Royal Opera House production of Tosca with Maria Callas and Tito Gobbi. In the same year, he created Callas' last Norma at the Paris Opera. Zeffirelli also collaborated with Joan Sutherland, designing and directing her performances of Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in 1959. Over the years he created several productions for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, including La bohème, Tosca, Turandot and Don Giovanni. When the new Metropolitan Opera opened at Lincoln Center, he directed its first production, Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra, starring Leontyne Price.

Honours

In 1996, he was awarded an honorary degree for services to the arts by the University of Kent at a graduation ceremony held in Canterbury Cathedral. In 1999, he received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In November 2004, he was awarded an honorary knighthood by the United Kingdom.[13]

Awards and nominations

Association Year Category Work Result Ref(s)
Academy Awards 1969 Best Director Romeo and Juliet Nominated [14]
1983 Best Art Direction La Traviata Nominated [15]
British Academy Film Awards 1969 Best Direction Romeo and Juliet Nominated [16]
1984 Best Film Not in the English Language La Traviata Nominated [17]
Best Production Design Won
1987 Best Film Not in the English Language Otello Nominated [18]
British Academy Television Awards 1978 Best Single Play Jesus of Nazareth Nominated [19]
Cannes Film Festival 1986 Palme d'Or Otello Nominated [20]
David di Donatello Awards 1969 Best Director Romeo and Juliet Won [21]
1972 Brother Sun, Sister Moon Won
1979 European David — Won
1991 Best Foreign Film Hamlet Won
2002 Special David — Won
Directors Guild of America Awards 1969 Outstanding Directing – Feature Film Romeo and Juliet Nominated [22]
Flaiano Prizes 1996 Career Award — Won [23]
Globo d'oro 2013 Won [24]
Golden Globe Awards 1969 Best Director Romeo and Juliet Nominated [25]
Best English-Language Foreign Film Won
1983 Best Foreign Language Film La Traviata Nominated
1987 Otello Nominated
Nastro d'Argento Awards 1969 Best Director Romeo and Juliet Won [26]
2013 Special Silver Ribbon — Won [27]
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 1999 Crystal Globe Won [28]
National Board of Review 1969 Best Director Romeo and Juliet Won [29]
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2003 Director's Achievement Award — Won [30]
Primetime Emmy Awards 1985 Outstanding Individual Achievement – Classical Music/Dance Programming – Directing Pagliacci Won [31]
1986 Outstanding Individual Achievements – Classical Music/Dance Programming Great Performances: "Cavalleria Rusticana" Won
Razzie Awards 1982 Worst Director Endless Love Nominated [32]
Tony Awards 1962 Special Tony Award Romeo and Juliet Won [33]
1963 Best Scenic Design The Lady of the Camellias Nominated [34]

Criticism

Zeffirelli received criticism from religious groups for what they call the blasphemous representation of biblical figures in his films.[35] He also roused accusations of antisemitism for describing Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ as a product of "that Jewish cultural scum of Los Angeles which is always spoiling for a chance to attack the Christian world."[36]

Zeffirelli was a highly conservative Catholic,[36] and served two terms in the Italian senate as a member of Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right Forza Italia party.[37] He was criticized by members of the gay community for upholding the Catholic Church's position on homosexuality[35][36][37] and by others for support of the Church's position on abortion,[36][37] which extended to calling for capital punishment for women who had terminated a pregnancy.[37]

He roused controversy again when he told a newspaper in 2006 that he had not suffered any harm from sexual abuse by a priest as a child.[36]

Personal life

In 1996, Zeffirelli came out as gay, but thereafter preferred to be discreet about his personal life.[38] Zeffirelli said that he considered himself "homosexual" rather than gay, as he felt the term "gay" was less elegant.[39] Zeffirelli adopted two adult sons, men with whom he had lived and who worked for him for years, managing his affairs.[39]

Allegations of sexual assault

Director Bruce Robinson claimed to have been the target of unwanted amorous attention from Zeffirelli during the filming of Romeo and Juliet, in which Robinson played Benvolio. Robinson says that he based the lecherous character of Uncle Monty in the film Withnail and I on Zeffirelli.[40]

In 2018, the American actor Johnathon Schaech alleged that Zeffirelli sexually assaulted him during the filming of Sparrow (Storia di una capinera, 1993).[41] Zeffirelli's son Giuseppe "Pippo", adopted by the filmmaker as an adult, issued a statement at the time denying the allegation.[42][43]

Death

Zeffirelli died at his home in Rome on 15 June 2019, at the age of 96.[44][45]

Selected filmography

Bibliography

  • Zeffirelli, Franco; John Tooley (interviews by Anna Tims), "How we made: Franco Zeffirelli and John Tooley on Tosca (1964)", The Guardian (London), 23 July 2012 on theguardian.com. Retrieved 11 August 2014.

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Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli KBE Grande Ufficiale OMRI 12 February 1923 15 June 2019 1 was an Italian stage and film director producer production designer and politician He was one of the most significant opera and theatre directors of the post World War II era gaining both acclaim and notoriety for his lavish stagings of classical works as well as his film adaptations of the same 2 3 A member of the Forza Italia party he served as the Senator for Catania between 1994 until 2001 Franco ZeffirelliKBE Grande Ufficiale OMRIZeffirelli in 1972BornGian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli 1923 02 12 12 February 1923Florence ItalyDied15 June 2019 2019 06 15 aged 96 Rome ItalyAlma materAcademy of Fine Arts of FlorenceOccupationsFilm directoropera directorpoliticianPolitical partyChristian Democracy before 1994 Forza Italia 1994 2001 Children2 adopted Member of the Senate of the RepublicIn office 21 April 1994 29 May 2001ConstituencyCataniaMilitary careerAllegiance United KingdomService wbr branch British ArmyYears of service1942 1945Unit24th Guards BrigadeBattles warsWorld War IIFilms he directed included the Shakespearean adaptations The Taming of the Shrew 1967 starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton Romeo and Juliet 1968 for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director and Hamlet 1990 starring Mel Gibson and Glenn Close His Biblical television miniseries Jesus of Nazareth 1977 won both national and international acclaim and is still frequently shown at Christmas and Easter in many countries A Grande Ufficiale OMRI of the Italian Republic since 1977 Zeffirelli also received an honorary British knighthood in 2004 when he was created a KBE 4 He was awarded the Premio Colosseo in 2009 by the city of Rome Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Film 2 2 Opera 3 Honours 3 1 Awards and nominations 4 Criticism 5 Personal life 5 1 Allegations of sexual assault 6 Death 7 Selected filmography 8 Bibliography 9 References 10 External linksEarly life EditZeffirelli was born Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli in the outskirts of Florence Tuscany Italy He was born after an affair between Florentine Alaide Garosi a fashion designer and Ottorino Corsi a wool and silk dealer from Vinci Since both were married Alaide was unable to use her surname or Corsi s for her child She came up with Zeffiretti which are the little breezes mentioned in Mozart s opera Idomeneo of which she was quite fond However it was misspelt in the register and became Zeffirelli 5 When he was six years old his mother died and he subsequently grew up under the auspices of the English expatriate community and was particularly involved with the so called Scorpioni who inspired his semi autobiographical film Tea with Mussolini 1999 Italian researchers found that Zeffirelli was one of a handful of living people traceably consanguineous with Leonardo da Vinci He was a descendant of one of da Vinci s siblings 6 Zeffirelli graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze in 1941 and following his father s advice entered the University of Florence to study art and architecture 7 After World War II broke out he fought as a partisan before he met up with British soldiers of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards and became their interpreter After the war he re entered the University of Florence to continue his studies but when he saw Laurence Olivier s Henry V in 1945 he directed his attention toward theatre instead While working for a scene painter in Florence he was introduced to Luchino Visconti who hired him as an assistant director for the film La Terra trema which was released in 1948 Visconti s methods had a deep impact upon Zeffirelli s later work 8 He also worked with directors such as Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini In the 1960s he made his name designing and directing his own plays in London and New York City and soon transferred his ideas to the cinema Career EditFilm Edit Zeffirelli with Olivia Hussey while filming Romeo and Juliet in 1967 Zeffirelli s first film as director was a version of The Taming of the Shrew 1967 originally intended for Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni but featured the Hollywood stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in their stead Taylor and Burton helped fund production and took a percentage of the profits rather than their normal salaries While editing The Taming of the Shrew Zeffirelli s native Florence was devastated by floods A month later he released a short documentary entitled Florence Days of Destruction to raise funds for the disaster appeal 9 Zeffirelli s major breakthrough came the year after when he presented two teenagers as Romeo and Juliet 1968 It made Zeffirelli a household name no other subsequent work by him had the immediate impact of Romeo and Juliet The film earned 14 5 million in domestic rentals at the North American box office in 1969 10 It was re released in 1973 and earned 1 7 million in rentals 11 Film critic Roger Ebert for the Chicago Sun Times wrote I believe Franco Zeffirelli s Romeo and Juliet is the most exciting film of Shakespeare ever made 12 After two successful film adaptations of Shakespeare Zeffirelli went on to religious themes first with a film about the life of St Francis of Assisi titled Brother Sun Sister Moon 1972 then his extended mini series Jesus of Nazareth 1977 with an all star cast The latter was a major success in the ratings He moved on to contemporary themes with a remake of the boxing picture The Champ 1979 and the critically panned Endless Love 1981 In the 1980s he made a series of successful films adapting opera to the screen with such stars as Placido Domingo Teresa Stratas Juan Pons and Katia Ricciarelli He returned to Shakespeare with Hamlet 1990 casting Mel Gibson in the lead role His adaptation of the Charlotte Bronte novel Jane Eyre 1996 was a critical success Zeffirelli frequently cast unknown actors in major roles Leonard Whiting Romeo in Romeo and Juliet Graham Faulkner St Francis in Brother Sun Sister Moon and Martin Hewitt David Axelrod in Endless Love Opera Edit Zeffirelli was a major director of opera productions from the 1950s in Italy and elsewhere in Europe as well as the United States He began his career in the theatre as assistant to Luchino Visconti Then he tried his hand at scenography His first work as a director was buffo operas by Gioachino Rossini He became a friend of Maria Callas and they worked together on a La traviata in Dallas Texas in 1958 Of particular note is his 1964 Royal Opera House production of Tosca with Maria Callas and Tito Gobbi In the same year he created Callas last Norma at the Paris Opera Zeffirelli also collaborated with Joan Sutherland designing and directing her performances of Gaetano Donizetti s Lucia di Lammermoor in 1959 Over the years he created several productions for the Metropolitan Opera in New York including La boheme Tosca Turandot and Don Giovanni When the new Metropolitan Opera opened at Lincoln Center he directed its first production Samuel Barber s Antony and Cleopatra starring Leontyne Price Honours EditIn 1996 he was awarded an honorary degree for services to the arts by the University of Kent at a graduation ceremony held in Canterbury Cathedral In 1999 he received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival In November 2004 he was awarded an honorary knighthood by the United Kingdom 13 Awards and nominations Edit Association Year Category Work Result Ref s Academy Awards 1969 Best Director Romeo and Juliet Nominated 14 1983 Best Art Direction La Traviata Nominated 15 British Academy Film Awards 1969 Best Direction Romeo and Juliet Nominated 16 1984 Best Film Not in the English Language La Traviata Nominated 17 Best Production Design Won1987 Best Film Not in the English Language Otello Nominated 18 British Academy Television Awards 1978 Best Single Play Jesus of Nazareth Nominated 19 Cannes Film Festival 1986 Palme d Or Otello Nominated 20 David di Donatello Awards 1969 Best Director Romeo and Juliet Won 21 1972 Brother Sun Sister Moon Won1979 European David Won1991 Best Foreign Film Hamlet Won2002 Special David WonDirectors Guild of America Awards 1969 Outstanding Directing Feature Film Romeo and Juliet Nominated 22 Flaiano Prizes 1996 Career Award Won 23 Globo d oro 2013 Won 24 Golden Globe Awards 1969 Best Director Romeo and Juliet Nominated 25 Best English Language Foreign Film Won1983 Best Foreign Language Film La Traviata Nominated1987 Otello NominatedNastro d Argento Awards 1969 Best Director Romeo and Juliet Won 26 2013 Special Silver Ribbon Won 27 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 1999 Crystal Globe Won 28 National Board of Review 1969 Best Director Romeo and Juliet Won 29 Palm Springs International Film Festival 2003 Director s Achievement Award Won 30 Primetime Emmy Awards 1985 Outstanding Individual Achievement Classical Music Dance Programming Directing Pagliacci Won 31 1986 Outstanding Individual Achievements Classical Music Dance Programming Great Performances Cavalleria Rusticana WonRazzie Awards 1982 Worst Director Endless Love Nominated 32 Tony Awards 1962 Special Tony Award Romeo and Juliet Won 33 1963 Best Scenic Design The Lady of the Camellias Nominated 34 Criticism EditZeffirelli received criticism from religious groups for what they call the blasphemous representation of biblical figures in his films 35 He also roused accusations of antisemitism for describing Martin Scorsese s The Last Temptation of Christ as a product of that Jewish cultural scum of Los Angeles which is always spoiling for a chance to attack the Christian world 36 Zeffirelli was a highly conservative Catholic 36 and served two terms in the Italian senate as a member of Silvio Berlusconi s centre right Forza Italia party 37 He was criticized by members of the gay community for upholding the Catholic Church s position on homosexuality 35 36 37 and by others for support of the Church s position on abortion 36 37 which extended to calling for capital punishment for women who had terminated a pregnancy 37 He roused controversy again when he told a newspaper in 2006 that he had not suffered any harm from sexual abuse by a priest as a child 36 Personal life EditIn 1996 Zeffirelli came out as gay but thereafter preferred to be discreet about his personal life 38 Zeffirelli said that he considered himself homosexual rather than gay as he felt the term gay was less elegant 39 Zeffirelli adopted two adult sons men with whom he had lived and who worked for him for years managing his affairs 39 Allegations of sexual assault Edit Director Bruce Robinson claimed to have been the target of unwanted amorous attention from Zeffirelli during the filming of Romeo and Juliet in which Robinson played Benvolio Robinson says that he based the lecherous character of Uncle Monty in the film Withnail and I on Zeffirelli 40 In 2018 the American actor Johnathon Schaech alleged that Zeffirelli sexually assaulted him during the filming of Sparrow Storia di una capinera 1993 41 Zeffirelli s son Giuseppe Pippo adopted by the filmmaker as an adult issued a statement at the time denying the allegation 42 43 Death EditZeffirelli died at his home in Rome on 15 June 2019 at the age of 96 44 45 Selected filmography EditLa Boheme 1965 production designer only 46 Florence Days of Destruction 1966 documentary short The Taming of the Shrew 1967 46 Romeo and Juliet 1968 46 Academy Award nominee director Brother Sun Sister Moon 1972 46 Jesus of Nazareth 1977 46 Cavalleria rusticana 1978 with Tatiana Troyanos and Placido Domingo 46 live Metropolitan Opera House stage director Pagliacci 1978 with Teresa Stratas Sherrill Milnes and Placido Domingo 46 live Metropolitan Opera House stage director Carmen 1978 46 The Champ 1979 46 Endless Love 1981 46 Razzie Award nominee Pagliacci 1982 with Placido Domingo and Teresa Stratas 46 Cavalleria rusticana 1982 with Placido Domingo and Elena Obraztsova 46 La Boheme 1982 46 live Metropolitan Opera stage director La Traviata 1983 46 Academy Award nominee BAFTA winner art direction with Teresa Stratas and Placido Domingo Tosca 1985 46 live Metropolitan Opera stage director Otello 1986 46 BAFTA winner foreign language film with Placido Domingo and Katia Ricciarelli Young Toscanini 1988 46 Hamlet 1990 46 Don Giovanni 46 live Metropolitan Opera stage director Don Carlo with Luciano Pavarotti and Daniela Dessi 46 live La Scala stage director Storia di una capinera also known as Sparrow 1993 46 with Sheherazade Ventura Jane Eyre 1996 46 Tea with Mussolini 1999 46 Callas Forever 2002 46 Bibliography EditZeffirelli Franco John Tooley interviews by Anna Tims How we made Franco Zeffirelli and John Tooley on Tosca 1964 The Guardian London 23 July 2012 on theguardian com Retrieved 11 August 2014 References Edit Redazione 15 June 2019 Lutto nel mondo del cinema morto Franco Zeffirelli Notizie Oggi 24 in Italian Retrieved 15 June 2019 Franco Zeffirelli obituary the Guardian 15 June 2019 Retrieved 6 August 2022 Kandell Jonathan 15 June 2019 Franco Zeffirelli Italian Director With Taste for Excess Dies at 96 The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 6 August 2022 UK honour for director Zeffirelli BBC News 24 November 2004 Franco Zeffirelli Facts Biography yourdictionary com Retrieved 8 January 2017 Leonardo da Vinci s living relatives identified BBC News BBC com 15 April 2016 Retrieved 8 January 2017 Donadio Rachel 18 August 2009 Maestro Still Runs the Show Grandly The New York Times Retrieved 18 August 2009 Franco Zeffirelli Biography Yahoo Movies Retrieved 18 August 2009 Burton Hosts Flood Special on Channel 33 The Gettysburg Times 31 December 1966 Retrieved 29 December 2012 Big Rental Films of 1969 Variety 7 January 1970 p 15 Big Rental Films of 1973 Variety 9 January 1974 p 60 Ebert Roger 15 October 1968 Romeo and Juliet RogerEbert com Roger Ebert Retrieved 17 January 2014 UK honour for director Zeffirelli BBC News Accessed 27 May 2008 The 41st Academy Awards 1969 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Retrieved 10 November 2022 The 55th Academy Awards 1983 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Retrieved 10 November 2022 Film in 1969 BAFTA Awards British Academy of Film and Television Arts Retrieved 10 November 2022 Film in 1984 BAFTA Awards British Academy of Film and Television Arts Retrieved 10 November 2022 Film in 1987 BAFTA Awards British Academy of Film and Television Arts Retrieved 10 November 2022 Television in 1978 BAFTA Awards British Academy of Film and Television Arts Retrieved 10 November 2022 Official Selection 1986 Cannes Film Festival Archived from the original on 16 December 2013 Retrieved 10 November 2022 Franco Zeffirelli Premi David di Donatello Franco Zeffirelli David di Donatello Awards in Italian Accademia del Cinema Italiano Retrieved 10 November 2022 1968 Awards Directors Guild of America Retrieved 10 November 2022 Flaiano International Awards Winners 1996 Premi Flaiano Retrieved 10 November 2022 Boni Federico 5 July 2013 Globi d Oro 2013 tutti i vincitori 2013 Globi d Oro all the winners Yahoo News in Italian Retrieved 10 November 2022 Franco Zeffirelli Golden Globes Hollywood Foreign Press Association Retrieved 10 November 2022 Nastri d Argento 1969 in Italian Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Retrieved 10 November 2022 Fusco Fabio 12 February 2013 Franco Zeffirelli un Nastro d Argento per i suoi 90 anni Franco Zeffirelli a Silver Ribbon to celebrate his 90th birthday Movieplayer in Italian Retrieved 10 November 2022 34th Festival Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Retrieved 10 November 2022 1968 Award Winners National Board of Review Retrieved 10 November 2022 Kay Jeremy 7 January 2003 Palm Springs honours Zeffirelli Redgrave the late Conrad Hall ScreenDaily Retrieved 10 November 2022 Franco Zeffirelli Emmy Awards Academy of Television Arts amp Sciences Retrieved 10 November 2022 1981 Razzie Awards Golden Raspberry Award Foundation Archived from the original on 16 January 2014 Retrieved 10 November 2022 Winners 1962 Special Tony Award American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League Retrieved 10 November 2022 Nominations 1963 Scenic Design American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League Retrieved 10 November 2022 a b Smith Patricia Julian 9 January 2005 Zeffirelli Franco glbtq An Encyclopedia of Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender and Queer Culture Archived from the original on 14 August 2007 Retrieved 7 August 2007 a b c d e Ulaby Neda 15 June 2019 Franco Zeffirelli Creator Of Lavish Productions On Screen And Stage Dies At 96 Weekend Edition NPR Retrieved 15 June 2019 a b c d Obituary Franco Zeffirelli BBC News 15 June 2019 Retrieved 15 June 2019 Barbara McMahon 21 November 2006 Zeffirelli tells all about priest s sexual assault The Guardian Retrieved 1 December 2019 a b Rachel Donadio 18 August 2009 Maestro Still Runs the Show Grandly The New York Times Retrieved 1 December 2019 Murphy Peter Interview with Bruce Robinson Archived from the original on 7 July 2007 Retrieved 7 August 2007 Schaech Johnathon 11 January 2018 Actor Johnathon Schaech I Was Molested by Director Franco Zeffirelli People Retrieved 18 June 2019 Director Franco Zeffirelli 94 accused of molesting actor in 1992 son denies it USA Today Associated Press 11 January 2018 Retrieved 18 June 2019 Keegan Rebecca 18 June 2019 The Dark Side of Franco Zeffirelli Abuse Accusers Speak Out Upon the Famed Director s Death Hollywood Reporter Retrieved 1 December 2019 E morto Franco Zeffirelli addio al Maestro La Nazione 15 June 2019 Retrieved 15 June 2019 Franco Zeffirelli Oscar Nominated Director for Romeo and Juliet Dies at 96 Duane Byrge The Hollywood REPORTER 15 June 2019 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Franco Zeffirelli Filmography Allmovie Retrieved 18 August 2009 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Franco Zeffirelli Franco Zeffirelli at IMDb Franco Zeffirelli at the Internet Broadway 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