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Eugenio Zanetti (born in 1949) is an Argentine dramatist, painter, film set designer, and theater and opera director. He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction in 1995, for the film ''Restoration''. == Biography == Zanetti was born in Córdoba. After travelling to Europe in the mid 60's and meeting Pier Paolo Pasolini, he participated in the latter's film version of ''Medea''.〔(Eugenio Zanetti, beyond the Oscar ) Negro & White 〕 After his father died, he returned to his country to help his family. He became involved in the cinema of Argentina, and provided set designs for Mario Sábato's ''The Power of Darkness'' (1979), for which he won a Moscow Film Festival Award for Design, and Alejandro Doria's ''Los Pasajeros del jardín'' (1982). During the Malvinas/Falklands War he relocated to Los Angeles, and began a career in Hollywood working as the production designer for Wayne Wang in ''Slam Dance'' (1987).〔(''Clarín'' (11 Nov 1996) ) 〕 Zanetti created set designs for ''Some Girls'' (1988), for which he won a Toronto Film Festival Design Award, ''Flatliners'' (1990), ''Last Action Hero'' (1993), ''Soapdish'' (1991), and ''Restoration'' (1995), for which he earned an Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He also designed set for ''What Dreams May Come'' (1998), ''The Haunting'' (1999), Alfonso Arau's ''Zapata: El sueño de un héroe'' (2004), and Roland Joffé's ''There Be Dragons'' (2011), among others. He returned to Argentine film in 2008, when he joined the production of Jorge Rodríguez's ''Árbol de fuego''.〔(Grupo Payne: Se filmará en la provincia una super producción ) 〕 Ultimately, ''Árbol de fuego'' was not made into a film. Zanetti's more than 40 theater and opera productions in Europe and South America include: ''A Masked Ball'' and ''Nabucco'' by Giuseppe Verdi, and ''Madama Butterfly'' and ''Tosca'' by Giacomo Puccini. He also had a successful career as Director of Musicals, receiving the Thalia Award (equivalent to the Tony Award) in Argentina for his local productions of ''They're Playing Our Song'', ''Chicago'' and ''Dracula'' as a director, and the same award for his adaptation of Philippa Gregory's ''The White Queen''. He also earned a Star of the Sea Award for ''The Cherry Orchard'', ''Chapter Two'', ''Company'', and ''Peer Gynt''. In 2014 he released his first film as writer and director, ''Amapola'', a fantasy drama film starring Camilla Belle, François Arnaud, Geraldine Chaplin, Leonor Benedetto, Lito Cruz and Elena Roger. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eugenio Zanetti」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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